{"id":6244,"date":"2017-03-24T12:36:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T12:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/24\/australian-prototype-jungle-carbine-enfields\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:21:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:21:06","slug":"australian-prototype-jungle-carbine-enfields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/24\/australian-prototype-jungle-carbine-enfields\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Prototype Jungle Carbine Enfields"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qc3xBqtxrSY?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Shortened No1 Mk3*: Sold for $6,900.<br \/>\nNo6 Mk1: Sold for $12,075.<br \/>\nNo6 Mk1\/1: Sold for $12,650.<\/p>\n<p>In 1943, experimentation began in Great Britain, Canada, and Australia into developing a shortened and lightened version of the Lee Enfield rifle. In Australia, the work was done on the No1 Mk3* rifle, as the Lithgow Arsenal had never switched over to production of the No4 rifle. <\/p>\n<p>We have three experimental prototype carbines from Lithgow to look at today. The first is simply a shortened SMLE, with no serious effort given to reducing weight. This rifle is visually very similar to the commercial SMLE &#8220;Jungle Carbines&#8221; marketed by a number of companies, although the real one here has several features missing form the commercial copies &#8211; most notably a simple rear aperture sight.<\/p>\n<p>The other two are examples of the two types of rifle that were ultimately considered for formal adoption (and a large order for one was actually placed, before being cancelled at the end of WW2). These are designated the No6 Mk1 (with a rear aperture sight) and the No6 Mk1\/1 (with a rear tangent sight). Approximately 100 of each were made, half with brass buttplates and half with rubber recoil pads. In this form, slightly more than a pound was removed from the standard SMLE, and the reduced length did make for a handier rifle. The Australian need for this type of carbine was removed with the end of the war, although in Great Britain the No5 Mk1 carbine &#8211; the same in practical terms as these Australian examples &#8211; would be taken into formal service for several years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortened No1 Mk3*: Sold for $6,900. No6 Mk1: Sold for $12,075. No6 Mk1\/1: Sold for $12,650. In 1943, experimentation began in Great Britain, Canada, and Australia into developing a shortened and lightened version of the Lee Enfield rifle. In Australia, the work was done on the No1 Mk3* rifle, as the Lithgow Arsenal had never&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/24\/australian-prototype-jungle-carbine-enfields\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australian Prototype Jungle Carbine Enfields<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14946,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions\/14946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}