It's interesting to see all these experts choking the bolt. It lifts & flips rearward with 2 fingertips the bolt spring causes it to pop rearward. Requiring almost no effort making it fast to open & close.
@mrstarfishh33 wat do u mean nothing new, it actually was created before the springfield 03 and the mauser 98k which r also good bolt action rifles, but dont go saying that the lee enfield british303 is a crappy gun, when its not so get your facts wright faggot
sorry the whole thing on the boer war is wrong. the mauser was a great rifle but it doesnt mean the long lee was a bad weapon it was a good one we just used the wrong tactics. it was also used by the irish, the teliban the alqueda everyone used it and so u have to admit its a great weapon no matter what
@leithafae on my sons last trip to afghanistan they were troubled greatly by a sniper who was giving them accurate fire. Turns out a chetchin using a smle
@sgtgewart1 thank you, it proves my point these excellent weapons are used by so many terrorists its surprising. theyre quick firing for bolt action. but i must admit the lee enfield especially the smle were great weapons.
The Short-Magazine Lee Enfield was the best bolt action rifle ever. It turned our men into one-shot, one-kill machines. It was far superior to the German's main rifle, and the Enfield family produce the Lee-Enfield Type 4, which again outstripped the German rifles. We also dominated the Jerries in tank warfare, but they beat us with better machine guns and planes, I'll give 'em that.
@1846jack Although they are great history pieces, do you really think that a bolt action rifle could go up against a full-auto assault rifle? It just would not work. We would be massacred. Use your head before making such stupid comments.
@LordWellington15 Snipers are the most lethal soldiers in the field, they can take out two guys from a mile away and theyre using bolt action rifles, thats why the British are investing in them, plus two well concealed snipers could massacre allot of soldiers
@kenny01622 Not only that but if a sniper shoots 1 person in the leg then 1 other person should cary his equipment, 1 other person should care him back to the hospital and 1other man should take in his place... So 1 bullet can actually remove 3 soldiers from the battlefield
The average on this video of "15 to 20 rounds a minute" is completely inaccurate. Most could get atleast 30 (including reloads). In fact the British army in WW1 was so fast that in some battles the Germans thought they were under machine gun fire when it was actually just the SMLE. I think the fastest recorded firing of a Lee Enfield (was a No4 admittedly) was about 48 rounds a minute. I will admit that that rate of fire was not 100% accurate as it should be but thats not the point.
I clocked my dad at 31 rnds a minute, on target - years after he he had fired one. God knows what the old bugger could have done in his prime. Typically of his generation, he would never tell me.
I`ve wanted an Enfield since I first fired one as a kid while in the army cadets and just the other day found one after 3 years of looking around.
Got one of the last made mk 2`s and its an unfired/unissued baby,can`t believe my luck,wouldn`t have been more happier if I won the lottery.
All I need now to go alongside my No.4 and K31 is a Mosin Nagant Sniper,Mauser K98 and a Springfield but the 30-06 are rare and expensive in my country.Have to start saving my pennies again.
I own a shot out, but rare, 1915 Standard Small Arms (SSA Birmingham) SMLE MkIII* plus a re-barrelled 1917 BSA SMLE MkIII* whilst my father has a 1941 Maltby (Yorkshire) No4 Mk1 and a 1945 No5 Jungle Carbine. We love the .303 although the number 5 has the expected heavy recoil, due to being so light and short. My favorite is still the 1917 SMLE. He even has a name. Pte. Atkins.
I like it too. I think the Mauser 98K is better action, and I like the 8mm round better, but the 10 round capacity of the SMLE gives it the slight edge, in my opinion. Neither would replace my Garand, though.
@903strikerunit That is an urban myth made up by guys who never served in combat. I have served in combat in 2 wars, and I can guarantee that in the massive noise and chaos of combat, that "ping" will not be heard, and even if it was, soldiers fight as a unit. When your rifle is empty, some of your fellow squad members will have loaded rifles and still be firing. I doubt that the "ping" had anything to do with your granddad being hit. Soldiers have a lot of military "urban Legends" like this.
@snakemanmike he's been in the 101st airborne. He got hit after he and his fellow comrades attacked an AA site in normandy. when his rifle "pinged" he suddenly got shot by a sniper
@903strikerunit I doubt it was the ping that caused the sniper to shoot him. The sniper was probably aiming at him already and just so happened to shoot him at that moment.
Smoothest action ever. I personally own a MK III* which has probably been carried the length and breadth of the British Empire. Still, smooth as all get out.
Reminds me of basic training in the SADF. They gave us these rifles to train with before equiping with the R4 or R5. They are heavy but can shoot deadly accurate. Not something you want lug around all the time. All hail to my Grandad who carried one of these around the North African desert in WW2!
that rifle was excellent for its time. 10 rounds? unheard of in a bolt gun. it could be fired quite fast. it was reliable, and had great sights. better than the mauser.
For those who question the ability of the .303, I once saw a .303 fired side by side, standing off hand against a .30 M1 Garand at a man sized target at 100metres. Both shooters were to fire as fast and accurately as they could until the Garand spat it's clip. When the Garand spat it's clip(8 shots fired), the .303 had emptied it magazine, the shooter had one 5 round clip in the magazine, and the second was on the charger bridge ready to go. Ever heard of "palming" the bolt?
@johninmelb I might believe it if you hadn't said he had one charger on the bridge. Why not load all 10? Why leave the second on the bridge? How can ten pulls of the trigger, strokes of the bolt and a reload outrun 8 pulls of the trigger? I love the Enfield but this sounds like BS.
Because the test was to fire aimed shots at a man size target at 100metres, until the Garand spat it's clip. At the time the Garand spat the clip (making the distinctive "ping") one clip was in the magazine, the other on the bridge. At the time of the agreed signal to"cease fire" (ie the Garand spitting the clip) the magazine was only half way reloaded. You may choose to believe it or not, I'm telling you what I saw.
@johninmelb I think this was just a misinterpretation of what you were stating. After reading your second post I reread the first and think I understand what you meant now. I would still sasy the guy with the Garand had to be a bit of a slacker but it seems possible now that I understand what you were saying.
Uncles got one....kicks like a mule, accurate as hell, and you could use it to bash a brick wall in and it would budge...best bolt action of all time in my opinion.
Bolt actions FTW! I gurantee you,take100 soldiers armed with the SMLE and put em against 100 Ruski's armed with Ak's - I promise you the bolt action shooters will win and fuck some shit up. You fire 300 rounds from an AK and you will kill 1 soldier. you fire 1 round from an SMLE and you got a kill,my cousin did 2 tours in Iraq and said himself he wishes he could bring his mauser k98 over there so he could actually KILL the enemy. Bolt shooters soldier on....
please dont kid yourselves, the 303 was fantastic but it DOES NOT measure up to capabilities of today especially with rifles like the Kalashnikov to go up against.....
"Rivals that of many modern automatic weapons" LMAO, gimmie a break.
The Enfield was and stll is a beast of a rifle, but saying it'll outshoot a modern automatic rifle? VERY incorrect, hell, an M1 rifle will shoot faster, with great accuracy at 200 meters distance, the Enfield in the right hands can shoot accuratly 30-40 rounds per minute, the M1 in the right hands will shoot accurately 40-60 rounds per minute at 200 meters.
Modern assualt rifles will shoot up to 60-80 rounds per minute.
It's like 90% of these rifles "were going against Hitler".. When I heard it on this one I rolled my eyes so hard I lost my vision for about 10 min. Hitler=Bad. We get it.
@TheCORE87 In my opinion the Lee Enfield is indeed the best bolt-action rifle of WW II. The Kar98k and the Mosin Nagant are good weapons, but the Lee Enfield has a better bolt system. It's much more flowing, it just feels right. :P The other bolt action rifles of the time had a much more cumbersome bolt system.
@TheCORE87 they dont have it because its good.. they have it because they take whatthey can get. and they are probably older models left there from the british. but otherwise yes. its an outstanding rifle. especially the one i have chambered for 30.06 (;
@TheCORE87 same can be said about the german mauser K98, larger cartridge - more power, more powder, longer range and more powerful with a nice bolt mechanism which allows for better rounds per minute
The Enfield still is in wartime use... There have been numerous cases of Iraqi and Afghan insurgents using the Enfield as a sniper rifle.
I actually have a SMLE that was made in 1967 at the Royal Firearms plant in Ishlapore, India.... When the British Commonwealth adopted the FN-FAL, India was unable to arm all its troops with the FAL, so they just modified the Enfield plant to make 7.62 NATO Enfields....
@HikaroTakayama Not to mention the Ishapore 2A1Enfields produced by the plant were actually built a lot stronger. This is because the 7.62 NATO round was more powerful and had higher chamber pressures than the .303 British.
@dodgyeyedtom Uhh, no, The Empire owned not the U.S. after 1776. Long before the SMLE was invented. The USA never fielded the Enfield. Although Remington, Savage, Winchester, and Eddystone all manufactured them for Briton including the Pattern -14. But, the U.S. never used them. Our bolt rifle was the Springfield 03-A3. A Mauser pattern rifle chambered in 30-06 or if you prefer 7.62X63mm. Which is superior in ballistics to the .303 and the 7.62X54 Russian. So the Nagant is a mute point.
@Nicodemus98 eh i ment that the usa was in the empire and that the lee enfield was use in the empire i know the usa wernt in the empire at the time but the lee enfield served when in the countries that remained in it, all i ment was that the springfield should not be on the top ten, other wise why dont we all use it now, at the time i did not know about the calber difference so thanks but i also found out that a smaller round has more chance of lodging in the body and causing more damage i mean.
@StevewiththePbass I didn't mean the Nagant is second rate. It is a very good rifle, like the Enfield. I'm not a fan of the M-44 carbine version, but, the 91 rifle is a good gun. They just aren't in the same class as the more powerful 30-06. Both are superior to the older 30-40, but the '06 eclipsed the Enfield's and Nagant's ballistics. There are many very good rifles from around the world. I've acquired as many as I can. Even certain model French Mas are good rifles, albeit in odd calibers.
@Haddockxyz300 i dont even know how you can compare a 9mm smg and a 303 bolt action. i would never take one of thiese over...... well just about anything.
interesting though it may be, the anchorman sounds a bit like he's trying to sell us a used car. this doesn't fit the subject, and it hurts the creditability of the show.
The real interesting thing is that this rifle is the weapon carried by Indian police officers to this day. One of the reasons the Mumbai gunmen were so successful is that the poor Indian cops couldn't storm the hotel and outshoot men with automatic weapons. SMLE was obsolete in 1936 & I feel sorry for anyone who has to trust their life to one in a world of Kalashnikovs & Armalites. beautiful weapon still
@Stritchers back in the 80's the afgans defeated the russians using enfields. the story goes that the russians would burn down entire villages if they found .303 casings in the area.
@robbytheguy The Afghans defeated the Russians with any weapon they could find. The SMLE was common because of old colonial connections with the British. Yes, many communist Afghans were killed by SMLE & even a few Soviets, but the most common & popular weapon of the guerillas was the AKM, either stolen from the Communists or smuggled in. The SMLE was not the decisive weapon by any means. It was used because it was there, not because it was considered superior or preferable to other weapons.
@Stritchers, I have to agree with Stritches, the Mujideen and most rebels would use anything they found. Hell a lot of rebels snatch some left over launchers, rifles, machine guns, ect from the Soviets and sold them to terrorist groups which is how some of them got few of their weapons.
@TheFalconryFan I didnt mean anything in a mean way. I wouldnt try with anything less than a .375 H&H, and a cuple of guys behind me. I thing they uasualy shoot them in the head anyway and shot placement is very important even in the head. An elephant is one tough creature.
@WinchesterMod94 .375 is seriously undersized for elephant, thats what you use for russian far east bears, I don't hunt big or endangerd game but if I had to hunt elephant, I would use nothing smaller than a .577, of course you CAN still take an elephant out with a .375, just that it boarders on animal cruelty as it is far from a swift death
@Jaahaah, .303 can penetrate the skin and the tissue of a elephant, in some spots it probably can't go all the way threw and out but aim in the right spot the elephant is dead. I wouldn't hunt with a .303 if I was a elephant hunter sense there is a chance if it didn't kill there would be one pissed off elephant.
@WinchesterMod94, like I said it can penetrate the skin, tissue, and might even get stuck in the organs, so yeah it can kill one if hit in the right spot. I wouldn't hunt a elephant with a .303, I would use a .300 Magnum or .338 lapua just in case the .303 didn't kill it right away.
@TheFalconryFan that hardly makes it a elephant hunting round then, people have killed big coastal alaskan brown bears with .22 rimfire rounds, still deosnt mean that it is a good round to use against them
It seems that the British were more likely to adopt different rifle sized round from other nations, rimmed rounds for rifles & LMGs! What was the advantages for this " un-interexchangeable" policy? it hampered the back up supplies & resources if the original was out of stall! By the way, which was more important for the fire power of a rifle, the stopping power or the penetrating power?
wow mad minut is not as mad as it seems in norway competition shooters can shoot 30 rounds in 25 seconds and its a bolt action sauer 200 str so 70 rounds in 1 minutt =)
it was invented by an american-irishman
jessemc2 1 week ago
I have this nice rifle and very pleasure to shoot with it.
JaOCZ 3 weeks ago
It's interesting to see all these experts choking the bolt. It lifts & flips rearward with 2 fingertips the bolt spring causes it to pop rearward. Requiring almost no effort making it fast to open & close.
TheTabellarius 4 weeks ago
1:42 sorry :S
M1LS572 1 month ago
no mosin nagant ???
ghostleycaspey 1 month ago
@ghostleycaspey Mosin Nagant is Soviet. Thats why they dont include it lol...
VictumRoManius 4 weeks ago
@VictumRoManius and it was a crappy gun compared to the boltys shown, nothing new in its design, and it was super bulky
mrstarfishh33 2 weeks ago
@mrstarfishh33 wat do u mean nothing new, it actually was created before the springfield 03 and the mauser 98k which r also good bolt action rifles, but dont go saying that the lee enfield british303 is a crappy gun, when its not so get your facts wright faggot
jthunder2011 1 week ago
@jthunder2011oh fuck i thought u were taliking about the british 303, but u were talking about the mosin nagant. darn my bad im a faggot lol
jthunder2011 1 week ago
@jthunder2011 im refering to the mosin.... relax jeeees
mrstarfishh33 1 week ago
@jthunder2011 the lee enfield is the least accurate out of the 4 most popular rifles though
MrDip02 2 days ago
@VictumRoManius and finnish polish and american and more
MrDip02 2 days ago
my #1 rifle ever
#2 Ak-47
#3 Kar98k
BHuang92 2 months ago
i always call it lee enfield SMILE XD
armystrong9998 3 months ago
@armystrong9998 As in, "Smile, I'm going to kill you!"
Litterboxer529 1 month ago
i have one of these well a Lithgow .303 its a bloody awesome firearm
sigmatus303 4 months ago
@sigmatus303
1+
1971vektorSP1 2 months ago
Zombie Apocolypse Weapon of Choice for an Easy Kill: Lee Enfield or M1 Garand
ItEaChUsTuNtS 5 months ago
@ItEaChUsTuNtS i chose k98
BigMek456 2 months ago
If a zombie outbreak happens in Australia, i would chose this weapon :)
Hell6125 5 months ago
I own a lee enfield mk 1, and its great!
baddabom1 5 months ago
@baddabom1 me too :)
lockerdogs 5 months ago
the excalibur of bolt action rifles
677222 5 months ago
sorry the whole thing on the boer war is wrong. the mauser was a great rifle but it doesnt mean the long lee was a bad weapon it was a good one we just used the wrong tactics. it was also used by the irish, the teliban the alqueda everyone used it and so u have to admit its a great weapon no matter what
leithafae 5 months ago
@leithafae on my sons last trip to afghanistan they were troubled greatly by a sniper who was giving them accurate fire. Turns out a chetchin using a smle
sgtgewart1 5 months ago
@sgtgewart1 thank you, it proves my point these excellent weapons are used by so many terrorists its surprising. theyre quick firing for bolt action. but i must admit the lee enfield especially the smle were great weapons.
leithafae 5 months ago
@Kyle16985 , not a bad taste you have :))) that's a pretty good list you've made there.
mardamek1 5 months ago
great post. I'm not being picky but I always thought that SMLE stood for SHORT MODEL LEE METFORD
clearview7 6 months ago
@clearview7 Definitely is Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE)
palehorseone 6 months ago
@palehorseone
Thanks. Don't know what I was thinking.
redoubt743 4 months ago
@clearview7
Nah, its Short Magazine Lee Enfield. I would imagine Short Model Lee Metford would become SMLM if you used the same idea
MrRobCWilliams 4 months ago
@MrRobCWilliams
Yep, I stand corrected. Thanks.
redoubt743 4 months ago
Lee enfield = God's hunting rifle
angryhippo2910 6 months ago
The Short-Magazine Lee Enfield was the best bolt action rifle ever. It turned our men into one-shot, one-kill machines. It was far superior to the German's main rifle, and the Enfield family produce the Lee-Enfield Type 4, which again outstripped the German rifles. We also dominated the Jerries in tank warfare, but they beat us with better machine guns and planes, I'll give 'em that.
Mattyrdom 6 months ago
If I were to fight in WW2 my rifle of choice would be an svt 40 or stg 44.
endgamr 6 months ago
fail!
BigMek456 6 months ago
One of the biggest dropbacks for the Lee Enfield is its weight, i also got a Kar98k, but the Enfield is one heavy s-o-b...
necramoniumdotc0m 6 months ago
Press "like" if you love all guns :D
STL308 7 months ago
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STL308 7 months ago
i like this weapons
NuriS61A 7 months ago
Just shot me Lee Enfield for the first time ever today. WOW. This round is dangerous. It is a wonderful rifle.
My favorite rounds are now.....
1. 303 British
2. 6.5x55 Swede
3. 30-06or308
cole91v 8 months ago
Its a shame about the defense budget, I'd be using this and a Sten in the army instead of a shitty SA80
1846jack 8 months ago
@1846jack Although they are great history pieces, do you really think that a bolt action rifle could go up against a full-auto assault rifle? It just would not work. We would be massacred. Use your head before making such stupid comments.
LordWellington15 8 months ago
@LordWellington15 Snipers are the most lethal soldiers in the field, they can take out two guys from a mile away and theyre using bolt action rifles, thats why the British are investing in them, plus two well concealed snipers could massacre allot of soldiers
kenny01622 7 months ago
@kenny01622 Not only that but if a sniper shoots 1 person in the leg then 1 other person should cary his equipment, 1 other person should care him back to the hospital and 1other man should take in his place... So 1 bullet can actually remove 3 soldiers from the battlefield
kidage22 6 months ago
Enfield is the worlds best Bolt action rifle ever made! Makes me proud to be british
TheBibby321 8 months ago 2
@TheBibby321 yep and it was made by an American and that makes me proud as well.
solkacorot 6 months ago
The average on this video of "15 to 20 rounds a minute" is completely inaccurate. Most could get atleast 30 (including reloads). In fact the British army in WW1 was so fast that in some battles the Germans thought they were under machine gun fire when it was actually just the SMLE. I think the fastest recorded firing of a Lee Enfield (was a No4 admittedly) was about 48 rounds a minute. I will admit that that rate of fire was not 100% accurate as it should be but thats not the point.
TRUExSIGHTS 8 months ago
I clocked my dad at 31 rnds a minute, on target - years after he he had fired one. God knows what the old bugger could have done in his prime. Typically of his generation, he would never tell me.
WinterBornActual 8 months ago
I`ve wanted an Enfield since I first fired one as a kid while in the army cadets and just the other day found one after 3 years of looking around.
Got one of the last made mk 2`s and its an unfired/unissued baby,can`t believe my luck,wouldn`t have been more happier if I won the lottery.
All I need now to go alongside my No.4 and K31 is a Mosin Nagant Sniper,Mauser K98 and a Springfield but the 30-06 are rare and expensive in my country.Have to start saving my pennies again.
Marlever357 8 months ago
Sadly, 6 people would rather a Mauser.
NLArmory 9 months ago
I own a shot out, but rare, 1915 Standard Small Arms (SSA Birmingham) SMLE MkIII* plus a re-barrelled 1917 BSA SMLE MkIII* whilst my father has a 1941 Maltby (Yorkshire) No4 Mk1 and a 1945 No5 Jungle Carbine. We love the .303 although the number 5 has the expected heavy recoil, due to being so light and short. My favorite is still the 1917 SMLE. He even has a name. Pte. Atkins.
Bilbo107 9 months ago
Ah great rifle, great fun, and an excellent hunting rifle, its my favorite rifle, easy to use and very elegant.
MikeAppleTree 10 months ago
A beautiful rifle from a time when good ole british engineering and design was the best in the world.
Noobtube83 10 months ago
I like it too. I think the Mauser 98K is better action, and I like the 8mm round better, but the 10 round capacity of the SMLE gives it the slight edge, in my opinion. Neither would replace my Garand, though.
snakemanmike 10 months ago
@snakemanmike the garand ? that thing had the "killer ping" that coused my grandfather a shot on his left hand by a mauser
903strikerunit 10 months ago
@903strikerunit That is an urban myth made up by guys who never served in combat. I have served in combat in 2 wars, and I can guarantee that in the massive noise and chaos of combat, that "ping" will not be heard, and even if it was, soldiers fight as a unit. When your rifle is empty, some of your fellow squad members will have loaded rifles and still be firing. I doubt that the "ping" had anything to do with your granddad being hit. Soldiers have a lot of military "urban Legends" like this.
snakemanmike 10 months ago
@snakemanmike he's been in the 101st airborne. He got hit after he and his fellow comrades attacked an AA site in normandy. when his rifle "pinged" he suddenly got shot by a sniper
903strikerunit 10 months ago
@903strikerunit I doubt it was the ping that caused the sniper to shoot him. The sniper was probably aiming at him already and just so happened to shoot him at that moment.
RedSandStudios 10 months ago
@RedSandStudios yeah. maybe your right. maybe grandfather was wrong after all.thanks a lot
903strikerunit 9 months ago
I love my .303...
Smoothest action ever. I personally own a MK III* which has probably been carried the length and breadth of the British Empire. Still, smooth as all get out.
panzerrat 10 months ago
I love my .303...
panzerrat 10 months ago
"They used that rifle to take anything from elephant to leopard to German Colonel".
All are virtually the same thing.
No offence to all the Germans out there.
(lovely bunch)
LemurHotel 1 year ago
haha that mustache guy following shooting at 3:52 :DDDDDD
PI37U 1 year ago
Reminds me of basic training in the SADF. They gave us these rifles to train with before equiping with the R4 or R5. They are heavy but can shoot deadly accurate. Not something you want lug around all the time. All hail to my Grandad who carried one of these around the North African desert in WW2!
iltidsn 1 year ago
that rifle was excellent for its time. 10 rounds? unheard of in a bolt gun. it could be fired quite fast. it was reliable, and had great sights. better than the mauser.
spazzz64 1 year ago
For those who question the ability of the .303, I once saw a .303 fired side by side, standing off hand against a .30 M1 Garand at a man sized target at 100metres. Both shooters were to fire as fast and accurately as they could until the Garand spat it's clip. When the Garand spat it's clip(8 shots fired), the .303 had emptied it magazine, the shooter had one 5 round clip in the magazine, and the second was on the charger bridge ready to go. Ever heard of "palming" the bolt?
johninmelb 1 year ago
@johninmelb palming works very well plus im left handed so i can operate it reaslly well without taking my finger off the trigger
ManofWarMickey 1 year ago
@johninmelb I might believe it if you hadn't said he had one charger on the bridge. Why not load all 10? Why leave the second on the bridge? How can ten pulls of the trigger, strokes of the bolt and a reload outrun 8 pulls of the trigger? I love the Enfield but this sounds like BS.
guamsst 11 months ago
@guamsst
Because the test was to fire aimed shots at a man size target at 100metres, until the Garand spat it's clip. At the time the Garand spat the clip (making the distinctive "ping") one clip was in the magazine, the other on the bridge. At the time of the agreed signal to"cease fire" (ie the Garand spitting the clip) the magazine was only half way reloaded. You may choose to believe it or not, I'm telling you what I saw.
johninmelb 11 months ago
@johninmelb I think this was just a misinterpretation of what you were stating. After reading your second post I reread the first and think I understand what you meant now. I would still sasy the guy with the Garand had to be a bit of a slacker but it seems possible now that I understand what you were saying.
guamsst 11 months ago
Cool video and a great gun, but they left out that it was an American design. :P
mst3k4evur 1 year ago
@mst3k4evur it wasn't lol! It was designed by James Paris Lee who was scotish/canadian but not american
TheAlexagius 1 year ago
Uncles got one....kicks like a mule, accurate as hell, and you could use it to bash a brick wall in and it would budge...best bolt action of all time in my opinion.
18CRS 1 year ago
Bolt actions FTW! I gurantee you,take100 soldiers armed with the SMLE and put em against 100 Ruski's armed with Ak's - I promise you the bolt action shooters will win and fuck some shit up. You fire 300 rounds from an AK and you will kill 1 soldier. you fire 1 round from an SMLE and you got a kill,my cousin did 2 tours in Iraq and said himself he wishes he could bring his mauser k98 over there so he could actually KILL the enemy. Bolt shooters soldier on....
Foley03A4 1 year ago
The only bolt action rifle that had the highest capacity rounds 2 fire.
iiisoposol2020 1 year ago
brits are poor in making names why not add a little humor to the war? name it the Lee Enfield SMiLE from now on :P
N1ghtStalkerNL 1 year ago
@N1ghtStalkerNL What, calling the SMLE a SMELLY isn't funny enough?
guamsst 11 months ago
@guamsst
i diden't knew it smells :P
N1ghtStalkerNL 11 months ago
please dont kid yourselves, the 303 was fantastic but it DOES NOT measure up to capabilities of today especially with rifles like the Kalashnikov to go up against.....
IIZODIIAC 1 year ago
"Rivals that of many modern automatic weapons" LMAO, gimmie a break.
The Enfield was and stll is a beast of a rifle, but saying it'll outshoot a modern automatic rifle? VERY incorrect, hell, an M1 rifle will shoot faster, with great accuracy at 200 meters distance, the Enfield in the right hands can shoot accuratly 30-40 rounds per minute, the M1 in the right hands will shoot accurately 40-60 rounds per minute at 200 meters.
Modern assualt rifles will shoot up to 60-80 rounds per minute.
LoneWolf051 1 year ago
Only holds 10 rounds if you dont mind the occasional jam.
zibbledy 1 year ago
@zibbledy If it is Jamming it needs attention and is a fault of the magazine 98% of the time.
guamsst 11 months ago
Elephant with .303? No way
Jaahaah 1 year ago
The Lee Enfield is annoying in games,, becouse you have to empty the ammo to reload it
Eagledude97 1 year ago
this is the bolt action rifle
10 round clip
relible
it helped win 2 world wars
dutyofgears1 1 year ago
this is the bolt action rifle to have in a war
dutyofgears1 1 year ago
It's like 90% of these rifles "were going against Hitler".. When I heard it on this one I rolled my eyes so hard I lost my vision for about 10 min. Hitler=Bad. We get it.
larz25000 1 year ago
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justinjacques766 1 year ago
he said cartridge capacity 10 rounds and yet the guy shooting the enfield only loads 5 rounds into it
justinjacques766 1 year ago
@justinjacques766 you load two clips of 5 rounds side by side.
sniperquasi 1 year ago
@justinjacques766 Its faster to load 5 - the last 5 are a real bastard to push in a pinch.
SamEEE12 1 year ago
I like the M1 garand. i love bolt acton rifles but if i'd go to combat i'd want me an M1
dogbone222 1 year ago
The Lee Enfield is in my opinion the best bolt-action rifle ever made.
It`s reliable, durable, powerful and accurate and has been through numerous wars.
This rifle is so good that it`s still being found in the hands of insurgents in Afghanistan at times...
TheCORE87 1 year ago 41
@TheCORE87 nah, ill take my m1903 over enfield.
SimpleStuff31 1 year ago
@TheCORE87 In my opinion the Lee Enfield is indeed the best bolt-action rifle of WW II. The Kar98k and the Mosin Nagant are good weapons, but the Lee Enfield has a better bolt system. It's much more flowing, it just feels right. :P The other bolt action rifles of the time had a much more cumbersome bolt system.
Ashikun 1 year ago
@TheCORE87 thats because they buy cheap crappy guns... except AK47 ;)
TwistedDoomGuy 1 year ago
@TwistedDoomGuy
You can't just go out and buy one, their lee enfeilds have been their since the British empire left, and have stood the tests of time really well.
Cheap and crappy?
The Lee enfield has a much farther range, and is much more powerfull than the AK-47.
TheCORE87 1 year ago
@TheCORE87 they dont have it because its good.. they have it because they take whatthey can get. and they are probably older models left there from the british. but otherwise yes. its an outstanding rifle. especially the one i have chambered for 30.06 (;
MattieTheBear 10 months ago
@TheCORE87 they should make a sniper rifle in honour of this rifle
spockzomb 9 months ago
@TheCORE87 It is also used by the Canadian Rangers in the Northern part of Canada as well.
woodslore 9 months ago
@TheCORE87 same can be said about the german mauser K98, larger cartridge - more power, more powder, longer range and more powerful with a nice bolt mechanism which allows for better rounds per minute
Nigelmalibu 7 months ago
Forgive my ignorance, but remind me what SMLE stands for. Something something Lee Enfield yes?
Natemire 1 year ago
@Natemire
Short, Magazine, Lee Enfield
TheRunereaper 1 year ago
@TheRunereaper Thanks man!
Natemire 1 year ago
One of the best infantry rifles ever created... fugly as hell tho ;-) haha
farmerboy245 1 year ago
well for its time it was the only 10 round capacity bolt action rifle
but inovation stills low
WTF?
Antunez99 1 year ago
@Antunez99 Everything is a judgement call for this show. I just watch for the history, but even then they don't get everything right.
RaderizDorret 1 year ago
my smle is a 1914
baker049 1 year ago
The Enfield still is in wartime use... There have been numerous cases of Iraqi and Afghan insurgents using the Enfield as a sniper rifle.
I actually have a SMLE that was made in 1967 at the Royal Firearms plant in Ishlapore, India.... When the British Commonwealth adopted the FN-FAL, India was unable to arm all its troops with the FAL, so they just modified the Enfield plant to make 7.62 NATO Enfields....
HikaroTakayama 1 year ago
@HikaroTakayama Not to mention the Ishapore 2A1Enfields produced by the plant were actually built a lot stronger. This is because the 7.62 NATO round was more powerful and had higher chamber pressures than the .303 British.
OpsmanONE 1 year ago
@OpsmanONE Well, yeah, that kind of goes without saying. ;)
HikaroTakayama 1 year ago
the 303 is the best bolt action ever made and history prooves it.
solkacorot 1 year ago 27
@solkacorot You could argue the Mauser over the smle. Givin its history
McCarthy331 1 year ago
@solkacorot Karabiner 98.
Nater245689 6 months ago
@solkacorot
i'll agree to that. it is the worlds fastest bolt action rifle
bman4099 6 months ago
I like the Lee Enfield rifle.
midsue 1 year ago
The Lee Enfield is a Smelly Rifle :P The Lee Enfield is easily one of my favourite historic rifles because the Canadians used it with great results.
xXMaJoRxSnIpEzXx 1 year ago
@xXMaJoRxSnIpEzXx My Enfield was made in Canada in 1942, makes me proud!
TaZ101SAGA 1 year ago
Dee-ee-ecent!
xXMaJoRxSnIpEzXx 1 year ago 2
The Lee-Enfield makes me SMiLE.
RatedPi 1 year ago
Makes me wanna get some .303 and shoot my No.4 Mk1 :D
Sev89 1 year ago
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dodgyeyedtom 1 year ago
@dodgyeyedtom Uhh, no, The Empire owned not the U.S. after 1776. Long before the SMLE was invented. The USA never fielded the Enfield. Although Remington, Savage, Winchester, and Eddystone all manufactured them for Briton including the Pattern -14. But, the U.S. never used them. Our bolt rifle was the Springfield 03-A3. A Mauser pattern rifle chambered in 30-06 or if you prefer 7.62X63mm. Which is superior in ballistics to the .303 and the 7.62X54 Russian. So the Nagant is a mute point.
Nicodemus98 1 year ago
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dodgyeyedtom 1 year ago
@Nicodemus98 eh i ment that the usa was in the empire and that the lee enfield was use in the empire i know the usa wernt in the empire at the time but the lee enfield served when in the countries that remained in it, all i ment was that the springfield should not be on the top ten, other wise why dont we all use it now, at the time i did not know about the calber difference so thanks but i also found out that a smaller round has more chance of lodging in the body and causing more damage i mean.
dodgyeyedtom 1 year ago
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dodgyeyedtom 1 year ago
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@Nicodemus98 you originaly came from britain so dont get exited too much
dodgyeyedtom 1 year ago
@Nicodemus98 but let's not second-rate the Mosin. alot of Germans died at the end of those guns.
StevewiththePbass 1 year ago
@StevewiththePbass I didn't mean the Nagant is second rate. It is a very good rifle, like the Enfield. I'm not a fan of the M-44 carbine version, but, the 91 rifle is a good gun. They just aren't in the same class as the more powerful 30-06. Both are superior to the older 30-40, but the '06 eclipsed the Enfield's and Nagant's ballistics. There are many very good rifles from around the world. I've acquired as many as I can. Even certain model French Mas are good rifles, albeit in odd calibers.
Nicodemus98 1 year ago
0:44 my uncle with Lee Enfield.
MelanesianMerdeka 1 year ago
@MelanesianMerdeka seriusly ?
Lollzzzzzzz 1 year ago
@Lollzzzzzzz my vid response
MelanesianMerdeka 1 year ago
@MelanesianMerdeka cant watch it due to some copy right thing : (
Lollzzzzzzz 1 year ago
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MelanesianMerdeka 1 year ago
Sluts can't shoot shit
Villliers 1 year ago
that fat guy scares me
SNIPINSPRINGFIELD 1 year ago
I wonder wy they don't still use this rifle,this is way better tath a shity MP5,(Except the fact tath it is bolt action)
Haddockxyz300 1 year ago
@Haddockxyz300 i dont even know how you can compare a 9mm smg and a 303 bolt action. i would never take one of thiese over...... well just about anything.
WinchesterMod94 1 year ago
@WinchesterMod94
Tath's the spirit!
Haddockxyz300 1 year ago
@Haddockxyz300 And not to mention they're completely different weapons with completely different roles and purposes.
LoneWolf051 1 year ago
@LoneWolf051
Oh,i forgot tath.but for long range combat,a can't fink of any better weapon tath the Lee Endfield!
Haddockxyz300 1 year ago
THIS RIFLE GODDAMN BLEW MY MIND THE FIRST TIME I FIRED IT
Litterboxer529 1 year ago
'every continent' antartica?
jh3496 1 year ago
@jh3496 Yes, even Antartica, There was an expedition in 1934 led by British Lt. Gen. Carl Sharps, they were armed with Enfield rifles as defense.
LoneWolf051 1 year ago
I want one of these.
tomtrollkiller 1 year ago
interesting though it may be, the anchorman sounds a bit like he's trying to sell us a used car. this doesn't fit the subject, and it hurts the creditability of the show.
6pshooter 1 year ago
@6pshooter You should hear the guy that voices it in South Africa, hes got throat cancer or something!
Gabez1303 1 year ago
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6pshooter 1 year ago
The real interesting thing is that this rifle is the weapon carried by Indian police officers to this day. One of the reasons the Mumbai gunmen were so successful is that the poor Indian cops couldn't storm the hotel and outshoot men with automatic weapons. SMLE was obsolete in 1936 & I feel sorry for anyone who has to trust their life to one in a world of Kalashnikovs & Armalites. beautiful weapon still
Stritchers 1 year ago
@Stritchers back in the 80's the afgans defeated the russians using enfields. the story goes that the russians would burn down entire villages if they found .303 casings in the area.
robbytheguy 1 year ago
@robbytheguy The Afghans defeated the Russians with any weapon they could find. The SMLE was common because of old colonial connections with the British. Yes, many communist Afghans were killed by SMLE & even a few Soviets, but the most common & popular weapon of the guerillas was the AKM, either stolen from the Communists or smuggled in. The SMLE was not the decisive weapon by any means. It was used because it was there, not because it was considered superior or preferable to other weapons.
Stritchers 1 year ago
@Stritchers, I have to agree with Stritches, the Mujideen and most rebels would use anything they found. Hell a lot of rebels snatch some left over launchers, rifles, machine guns, ect from the Soviets and sold them to terrorist groups which is how some of them got few of their weapons.
TheFalconryFan 1 year ago
@TheFalconryFan I didnt mean anything in a mean way. I wouldnt try with anything less than a .375 H&H, and a cuple of guys behind me. I thing they uasualy shoot them in the head anyway and shot placement is very important even in the head. An elephant is one tough creature.
WinchesterMod94 1 year ago
@WinchesterMod94 .375 is seriously undersized for elephant, thats what you use for russian far east bears, I don't hunt big or endangerd game but if I had to hunt elephant, I would use nothing smaller than a .577, of course you CAN still take an elephant out with a .375, just that it boarders on animal cruelty as it is far from a swift death
Jaahaah 1 year ago
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WinchesterMod94 1 year ago
@Jaahaah The 375H&H is plenty big. people have hunted elephant with it for years.
WinchesterMod94 1 year ago
I would like to see what General Patton would do to the guy who said this was better than the M1 Garand.
WinchesterMod94 1 year ago
Used to have one. Very smooth bolt action.
thehistorywatcher 1 year ago
2:50 ? bullshit idiot
startwiththeballs 1 year ago
@startwiththeballs no he is right i mean he is an expert for a reason
hr2439 1 year ago
No way you can kill an elephant with a .303
Jaahaah 1 year ago
@Jaahaah, .303 can penetrate the skin and the tissue of a elephant, in some spots it probably can't go all the way threw and out but aim in the right spot the elephant is dead. I wouldn't hunt with a .303 if I was a elephant hunter sense there is a chance if it didn't kill there would be one pissed off elephant.
TheFalconryFan 1 year ago
@TheFalconryFan The only way a .303 is going to kill an elephant is if the elephant was there target during there "mad minute".
There is no way it is better than the M1 Garand. Like Stritchers said its been obsolete since 1936.
WinchesterMod94 1 year ago
@WinchesterMod94, like I said it can penetrate the skin, tissue, and might even get stuck in the organs, so yeah it can kill one if hit in the right spot. I wouldn't hunt a elephant with a .303, I would use a .300 Magnum or .338 lapua just in case the .303 didn't kill it right away.
TheFalconryFan 1 year ago
@TheFalconryFan that hardly makes it a elephant hunting round then, people have killed big coastal alaskan brown bears with .22 rimfire rounds, still deosnt mean that it is a good round to use against them
Jaahaah 1 year ago
@Jaahaah, never said it was a good elephant hunting round, I said it could kill one.
TheFalconryFan 1 year ago
2:45 type of drugs ?
lauris47 1 year ago
@lauris47 LSD.
mcmelonmaster 1 year ago
2:11 lol
lauris47 1 year ago
Is that a magazine near the trigger, or is it internal?
Marsrover9999 1 year ago
@Marsrover9999 Internal
KERNOWHAM123 1 year ago
@Marsrover9999 The SMLE features a 10 round removable magazine (that isn't really removable).
No1118117 1 year ago
@No1118117 and that's supposed to be a good thing I guess....
lifelessperson1993 1 year ago
How does a bolt beet out the Semi Garand?
Vertigo645 1 year ago
It seems that the British were more likely to adopt different rifle sized round from other nations, rimmed rounds for rifles & LMGs! What was the advantages for this " un-interexchangeable" policy? it hampered the back up supplies & resources if the original was out of stall! By the way, which was more important for the fire power of a rifle, the stopping power or the penetrating power?
9394JP731 1 year ago
wow mad minut is not as mad as it seems in norway competition shooters can shoot 30 rounds in 25 seconds and its a bolt action sauer 200 str so 70 rounds in 1 minutt =)
mp7fanlol 1 year ago
The best part of this rifle was the british soldier.
The british infantry shoot training during the pre Great War period, made the SMLE the deadliest weapon of his time.
manu101air 1 year ago 2
Lee enfield SMLE is a great rifle
WWICanadianInfantry 1 year ago 2