Update 12th Septmber 2024— 

NEW in 2025...


Finally an updated 'British Commonwealth Bayonets & Fighting Knives'
    with added chapters and re-processed photos, 484 pgs, 1,000+ illustrations.

• MORE TITLES from 2023...
  
                     
  
  1. At last, a book on 'British & Commonwealth Signal Pistols'
      by Rick Landers & Ian Skennerton., 64 pgs, 140 illustrations.
  
  
  
  2. 'Proofs, Stamps & Trade Marks for Rifles, Pistols & Shotguns
       An International Guide, Edition of 2023'
      by Paul Fowkes, edited with Ian Skennerton. 144 pgs, 2,000+ illustrations

• See our new YouTube page...
  Owen, Austen, SLR, Lithgows, L-E Snipers, SMLE, No.4, No.5, MGs &c.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsXBwYCDZac&ab_channel=IanSkennerton
  
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufih0bBRZQ0&ab_channel=IanSkennerton 
  
  Subscribe to our YouTube channel if you want to see new clips.

• UPDATE...
  
  
  'Broad Arrow Mk 2' hard and soft cover editions, Presentation edition only available from Oregon, this edition sold out in Oz, NZ and UK where only soft covers are available now.
  
  Don't pay US$1,000+ for a 2001 edition, the Mk 2 is much bigger and better! 
  
  
  
  Prices: US$50 (A$70) - soft cover edition
  US$100 (A$135) Presentation HC edition with Resources CD enclosed.
  Updated, expanded edition with larger page size, 20+ more pages, many more illustrations and colour plates.
  
  Limited number- HC Presentation copies left in the U.S. Resources CD has folders of photos & pdf files with more detail than could be printed in a book.
  

• 
  
  Don't pay more for out-of-print e.g. .303 No.4(T) Armourers Perspective!
  Our new CD has pdf files including 'British Sniper', L42A1 & L39A1 Manuals & Parts Catalogue, Faris catalogue, photo folders, video clips. We'll do a CD on out-of-print S.A.I.S. soon. $25 plus p&p... $6 in Oz, $12 overseas.
  
     

• 
  Replacement barrels on Lithgow rifles can be determined by the number of inspection marks around the breech, 'A' in a star with inspection no. below. Barrels have 4 view stamps around the breech circumference. A 5th was added after inspection, screwed into the action body. So later replacement barrels can be determined, usually a replacement serial no. was stamped when fitted during FTR at ordnance depot or by field armourers.
  
  1st proof of the barrel was done in a proof block jig, 2nd proof with barrel breeched up to action body. Barrels were dated on left side with year, e.g. '17, serial nos. were added after they were mated up when the rifle was assembled.

• Full On - Full Auto 1 - British & US Machineguns - 70 min. run time DVD
  
      
  $25.00 + $8 p&p, $12 o'seas post.
  'Full Auto 2 - German & Comblock MGs' are subjects in the following DVD.
  
  S.A.S. Live - 'SLR, the FAL with Kevin Adams' .

• 30 Years - From piano & synths to film.
    Music CD by Ian Skennerton, $9.50 plus p&p.
  Run time c.80 minutes, mostly classical piano; synthesisers near the end.

• Small Arms Series Live DVD SMLE trailer from Badger at Milsurps Forum.
  Click strip to download 8 min. trailer, well worth the wait!   

• Brian Labudda, new Wondai shop...
  Bigger with even more militaria, parts, antiques, &c. at Wondai Q.4606.
  On the main street (11-13 Scott St.).
  An old service station on the corner, last on the left headed north, or 1st on the right going south on Bunya Highway (49) from Kingaroy.
  Postal... PO Box 770, Kingaroy 4610.       Brian's mobile... 0400 625 366

• More on Serial Number Stamps on Lee-Enfields...
  When MLM, MLE & SMLE rifles left the factory, serials were usually stamped only on the action body, barrel (right side of knox form) and bolt handle. Base Ordnance Depots, workshops and armourers generally transcribed serials onto underside of the sight leaf, fore-end (SMLE only) and nosecap (SMLE only). Such stamps are usually different sizes to those on the body and barrel.
  
  For MLM, MLE and early SMLEs, action bodies started with a progressive lot letter (no prefix at first then A thru' Z) prior to numbers being stamped, so the letter can appear above or below the numbers as a suffix or prefix on the earlier rifles and carbines. Letter prefix/suffix was often not recorded in factory records, such as the sniper rifle conversion lists at Lithgow. Detailed serial no. lists are found in our Research CD for the S.M.L.E.  

• Shortened SMLE's... We've noted shortened SMLE's in UK museums listed as 'jungle rifles', however unlike the Lithgow Shortened & Lightened (20.2-in. brl.) they are converted or modified downgraded SMLE's. We also note shortened No.1 rifles at the Singleton Infantry Museum with 18.2-in barrels. It is noteworthy that these Australian 'short' rifles have only 200 & 600 yd peep sights rather than bed backsights up to 2,000 yds.
  
  Pre-dating Far East needs, these are not 'jungle rifles'. A closer investigation of the British origin shortened rifles leads us to believe that they were modified at Base Ordnance Depots as some parts are unnumbered, using spares or cannibalised components.
  
  Some AFV schedules have rifles but fitting prevents a 44.5-in. long SMLE. Pre-WW2, rather a shortened No.1, by about 5-ins. A short rifle in Faris' collection lead us to conclude that the requirement would be for AFV during WW2 when his was modified from a 1941 Lithgow.  'Tanker' models extend well beyond the British realm. After the word spreads, beware of fakes! 

• Visit our www.enfieldcollector.com site; eventually there will be more pages on .577 Enfield, Snider-Enfield, .450 & .303 Martini, MLM & MLE, SMLE, Rifle No.4, &c.

DVD & CD set $35.00

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DVD & CD set $35

DVD only $19.50

#23 L-E Parts Catalogue

WinM1892

Ruger10/22

Schmidt-Rubin