No4  MkI* Sporterized

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I'm not a big fan of cut down or sporterized military rifles, also known as bubba'ed rifles.  But when this one came up at a gun auction I was at a few years back I bought it for parts.  It's actually a fairly good job that GLOBCO did, the barrel crown is really nice and all the machining is well done.  The barrel is mint, very shiny bore.  It looks like they were trying to make it look like an EAL rifle (Canadian Essential Agencies Limited) but its not.  Globco was a company just outside of Ottawa Ontario that did a lot of conversions on a varity of milsurp rifles in the 1960's.  I have recently seen Soviet SVT 40's converrted from 7.62 x 54R to .303, that were done by GLOBCO.      But I can't really tell much about this rifle as most of the important marks were machined off.  The more I look at this rifle the questions I have.  What I do know is that the bolt body was manufactured by Savage (1942) and has a Savage serial number 35Cxxxx.  There is a faint impression of the flaming bomb on the rear of the receiver so the receiver is also of Savage manufacture, the bolt may or may not be the original for this rifle.      The rifle was refit with new barrel 1947, the barrel is marked J679 and has EFD, RSAF Enfield inspector marks.  The barrel was sometime later cut down from the standard 25 1/4" to 20 5/8" (524mm).  There is a mix of parts from the Longbranch factory as well as other parts from the UK mixed in.       Not a collector rifle but it shoots well, and I'm not worried about damaging it.  I really don't like the sights on this rifle.  the front sight is fairly thick and has a poor bead.  I am thinking of replacing both front and rear sights in the future, or getting a cheap scope and mount for this rifle.

Rifle disassembled.   Notice that any marks on the wrist have been removed as well as any marks that may have been on the right side of the receiver.   Also the charger bridge, rear sight base and part of the receiver have been machined away when this rifle was sporterized.   The trigger is hung off the trigger guard so this rifle was not converted to the Mk2 standard.
Top and left side of Barrel   All the marks on the knox have been removed and a new Globco stamp added.   The UK acceptance mark, year '47 inspection and proof marks remain on the barrel
Right side of barrel and receiver   You can see 3 inspector marks on the barrel, all RSAF Enfield marks.  The 43 on the receiver I have no ideal what its for.   The far right picture shows the rear of the receiver, and you can just make out part of the flaming bomb ot the US ordinance department.