{"id":301,"date":"2018-08-20T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2018\/08\/20\/canadian-rangers-retire-lee-enfield\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:29:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:29:20","slug":"canadian-rangers-retire-lee-enfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Rangers Retire Lee Enfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6944,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Colt_Canada_C19&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6945,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/nationalpost.com\\\/news\\\/canada\\\/why-the-114-year-old-lee-enfield-rifle-is-only-now-being-retired-by-the-canadian-armed-forces?video_autoplay=true&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6946,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ottawacitizen.com\\\/news\\\/national\\\/defence-watch\\\/5000-lee-enfield-rifles-to-be-gifted-to-canadian-rangers-9500-to-go-to-cadets&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nThe Canadian Army has used the SMLE or Short Magazine Lee-Enfield rifle in .303 British since the Boer War. Until this last week, their volunteer Arctic-based Canadian Rangers were still using it. However, it has now been replaced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colt_Canada_C19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colt Canada C19 bolt action rifle<\/a> which a modified Tikka T3 CTR built under license.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Canadian_Rangers-1024x768.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Canadian_Rangers-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Canadian Rangers drilling with their Lee-Enfields<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>As to why the Rangers used the SMLE for so long, <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/why-the-114-year-old-lee-enfield-rifle-is-only-now-being-retired-by-the-canadian-armed-forces?video_autoplay=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the National Post<\/a> has this from an arms expert at the Canadian War Museum:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>The Lee-Enfield\u2019s powerful .303 cartridge was famous for killing enemy soldiers with one shot, and it\u2019s equally good at stopping a charging polar bear.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Its wood stock makes it uniquely resistant to cracking or splitting in extreme cold. The rifle is also bolt-action, meaning that every shot must be manually pushed into place by the shooter. This makes for slower firing, but it also leaves the Lee-Enfield with as few moving parts as possible.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cThe more complicated a rifle gets \u2026 the more prone you are to problems with parts breaking or jamming in a harsh environment,\u201d said Eric Fernberg, an arms collection specialist at the Canadian War Museum.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cIt might seem old-fashioned \u2026 (but) the retention of the Lee-Enfield by the Canadian Rangers was a wise choice for their role and environment.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HLRbLznVcvE\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/national\/defence-watch\/5000-lee-enfield-rifles-to-be-gifted-to-canadian-rangers-9500-to-go-to-cadets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the Department of National Defence<\/a>, the surplus rifles will be split between Army Cadets, museums, and the Rangers who wish to buy them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>The Lee Enfield Declaration of Surplus was approved by VCDS on January 21, 2015.  Approximately 9,500 rifles will be transferred to the CAF Cadets, mostly as non-functional rifles, to complement their entitlement of drill and training rifles.  Another 5,000 rifles approximately, will be offered to serving Canadian Rangers individuals as a donation\/gift to preserve heritage. Up to 50 rifles will be offered to CAF affiliated museums and units as display artefacts<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess this means that few, if any, of these Enfields will be headed south of the border.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the replacement C19 in the photo below. It will come with the Pelican case and has the Canadian Rangers shield on the laminated stock.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/c19-ranger-service-rifle.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"427\" data-original-width=\"640\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/c19-ranger-service-rifle.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Army has used the SMLE or Short Magazine Lee-Enfield rifle in .303 British since the Boer War.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[783,784,785,786],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canada","tag-canadian-rangers","tag-colt-canada-c19-rifle","tag-smle-lee-enfield-rifles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11549,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/11549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}