Thank you , I got it from an older gentleman who complained it had some problem with it's "recoil"
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I have been shooting it for 17 years with no problems at all, it is in unissued condition, and dated from the last months of the war. I know the MOD flooded the market with SMLE's of all sorts in the early 1990's, at that time US dealers had them for as little as $45 for a No1 MKIII*, or No4, the carbines were a bit more expensive. Australia did it at about the same time, some of us built rather large Enfield collections in the 90's.
The No5 is one of my unissued Enfields, the other is a 1955 Fazakerly No4 MKII new in the arsenal wrap, still in that wrap today. I have enough nice issued rifles that I can leave it packed away, I wish I had bought two of them at the time.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt