Which smle is this ?

[dromia]

Why chop it into a No5 when it is a No4?

Better just to restock it and save it to its original configuration rather than butcher it further and have something of no value financially or historically.

[frogland]

I can see your point.

[huntervixen]

She could be "re-militarised", the barrel looks to be untouched? .... got out of that pansy civilian dress and back into proper military fatigues !

Sez the person with a wrongly-scoped A4 icon. ...naughty bad!

Been gradually doing a very similar rebuild/re-militarisation, on a Fazakerly made No.4 that'd been sporterised & 410'd in the past.
The prices being charged for sets of wood is bordering on daylight robbery....but by waiting for non-dealer (militaria variery, not rfd) sales online, I eventually got the parts required. Just waiting for barrel bands/caps & a magazine.
Restoring can be done...so maybe worth considering as a project. ..

My dear Hamster, take the weight off , crack open a can of Irn Bru and do a spot of reading up... its a given that A4's were used in the Korean war, its also a given that commercial Lyman Alaskan scopes were used in the Korean war (examples below).... So it is indeed quite plausible (given combined Army/Marine Corps Ordnance) that Alaskans were used on A4's in Korea!


"Korean War scopes - In 1951 the government reportedly purchased 3000 Lyman Alaskan scopes for the widening Korean Conflict."

"Senich's book on Marine Corps snipers shows a photo of a Marine in Korea during a February 1953 firing an M1C equipped with 'a commercial Lyman Alaskan All-Weather telescope".