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Its a Lee Speed.
A commercial sporting rifle built on the Lee Enfield action by BSA, and sold also by people like Westley Richards, Holland and Holland, Army and Navy and others, under their own...

My dear man, that wasn't aggression. I was just pointing out the reverse snobbery of your comment. Surely you must have expected something like that when you came onto the thread and described...

He'll be away trying to figure out if hes too working class to own a gun at all I expect.

My taste runs more to fine old rifles, and old school is my kind of school: Just to show that .303's can...

Oh I see - you're offended. You just want to fight. On the internet. Oh all right. By saying middle class I was mocking your self association with the working classes of England prior to WW1 - from...

Well they were called P14's. Never heard any of them called just "Enfields" until Youtube came along. And then it was always by Yanks calling them ""Enfields"" when referring to Lee Enfields for some...

I didn't mean you specifically! I meant that one doesnt have pretensions of class because one owns a shotgun - unless one does have pretensions of class. It depends on the owner. Some people buy...

Yes I know them. I might too. But I would think hard about Westley Richards too...

Cordite, there was no offence taken.
Isn't social class what owning a Holland and Holland about? Its a more interesting question than at first it seems.

What a buyer is doing is buying a...

My ego is big enough to own one. I would even put up with middle class snobs calling me sad to do it. Because I'm worth it.
Just dont quite have the money yet...

I once handled a J Rigby & Sons Mauser from 1909. I had always thought they would simply be a Mauser action nicely finished in a good stock. After all there was only so much you could do with one I...