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Originally Posted by Mac Cat
Those look like a Lee-Enfields .303
(a WW-2 model and a WW-I version)
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The number 5 "Jungle Carbine" was a WW2 rifle. They had a lot of problems with a "wandering" zero and were never able to adequately fix it. Production was eventually stopped.
The number 1 rifle served well into WW2 before sufficient supplies of the number 4 rifle were available to replace it. The flat cocking piece on the subject rifle indicates either an early rifle that was updated or later production. Early #1 rifles have a round knob at the back of the cocking piece.
I once had a 1939 BSA #1 rifle that was the best cast bullet Enfield rifle I ever owned. It was super accurate.