Thread: No4 Mk1* Valuation (Pic Heavy)

Perfectly good for service rifle matches, and they are just generally fun to shoot.

Bottle caps are also collectable, but they dont cost very much. I even knew a guy who used to collect plastic bags. ""Collectable" does not mean ""worth more"".

.303's recently became collectable because they had history but also because they were cheap. Now they are not cheap because everyone has been reading on the internet about how collectable they are, so people think anythiing with full wood is by definition ''çollectable''. They come up on Trademe all the time for $800-1200 and they dont sell. Its an old military rifle. No offense to the Lee Enfield rifle, of which I have a had a fond relationship since I got my first one as a very much younger man, although I prefer the sporting rifles.

I dont know if there is any point in hanging on to it in the hope it might appreciate, in ten years the same people who would buy it now might pay another $100 for it. But then petrol will cost 4.00 a litre and a packet of cigarettes will cost $100.

(btw, you could have just painted the metal black. Thats what they used to do with the No.4 rifles.)

Bottle caps are also collectable, but they dont cost very much. I even knew a guy who used to collect plastic bags. ""Collectable" does not mean ""worth more"".

.303's recently became collectable because they had history but also because they were cheap. Now they are not cheap because everyone has been reading on the internet about how collectable they are, so people think anythiing with full wood is by definition ''çollectable''. They come up on Trademe all the time for $800-1200 and they dont sell. Its an old military rifle. No offense to the Lee Enfield rifle, of which I have a had a fond relationship since I got my first one as a very much younger man, although I prefer the sporting rifles.

But there are plenty of people with a passing interest in military .303's who just want to have one, these people are your market, and they wont care much about the refinish, because it looks quite in keeping. These people will pay about $500 for that rifle.

I dont know if there is any point in hanging on to it in the hope it might appreciate, in ten years the same people who would buy it now might pay another $100 for it. But then petrol will cost 4.00 a litre and a packet of cigarettes will cost $100.

(btw, you could have just painted the metal black. Thats what they used to do with the No.4 rifles.)