This article, "Exploded View: Lee-Enfield No. 4 Rifle," appeared originally in the April 2004 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select ...

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This 'Short Magazine Lee Enfield' (SMLE) remained the service rifle of choice throughout the British Commonwealth for the next 60 years. Its magazine held 10 rounds and was accurate up to 2200 yards.

At Agincourt it was the longbow, at Waterloo it was the "Brown Bess" musket, and in the First World War it was the Short Magazine Lee-Enfield .303 rifle. Naturally, no-one ever called it anything as ...

Follow the journey of one rifle as, from humble beginnings it earns a place in history in the hands of some extraordinary men. The journey begins in December 1902 when the British Army introduced a ...