January 25, 2007    

Enfield-Stuff
            A web site about Lee-Enfield rifles and the men who carried them.
     
 
 
 
Enfields In Queue: Pakistan
  
 
Rifle 148
Rifle No.4, Mk 2 Pakistan Ordnance Factory, Wah, Pakistan 1958. Matched s/n (bolt, receiver, forestock), marked "MVR" on left buttsocket. For a while there seemed to be some debate. Skennerton originally reported that all POF rifles are rebuilds; Stratton reported that the BSA Shirley tooling and machinery was sold to Pakistan in the 1950's and that post-1958 rifles appear to be newly manufactured, not rebuilds.   The consensus appears to be that early rifles are rebuilds, later production is new.  If this is a rebuild, then the "MVR" may be a leftover mark (--- Volunteer Rifles? India?); if it's new, then the MVR has Pakistani origins. Either way, nicely stamped MPD on buttstock.