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JohnK
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Lee Speed in the field
      #291133 - 30/11/16 04:34 PM

Some time ago I posted photos of a Lee Speed "Type" rifle I had built.
After a few trips out in the bush I though I would post some photos of the rifle in the field.









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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: JohnK]
      #291134 - 30/11/16 05:30 PM



Looks great. Whoever did the work did a fine job.


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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: lonewulf]
      #291146 - 30/11/16 09:08 PM

.....that's not nice, that's beautiful !! That has got to be one of the best smellies I've seen.

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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: yumastepside]
      #291147 - 30/11/16 09:26 PM

Yea, they don't get much better than that. Really well done.

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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: Waidmannsheil]
      #291161 - 01/12/16 12:11 AM

I lust after that rifle.

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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: Rell]
      #291165 - 01/12/16 01:01 AM

A stunning piece of gun art. Well done sir.

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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: Docbill]
      #291181 - 01/12/16 05:26 AM

Gorgeous rifle, great photography, and excellent "sport".......great post

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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: Villafuego]
      #291184 - 01/12/16 05:36 AM

Thanks JohnK - that is the most beautifully stocked Enfield I have had the pleasure to see.
You did a marvelous job on that stock.
Well done!

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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: DarylS]
      #291190 - 01/12/16 06:32 AM

Hi John,

Teeeeerific...!

Great photos and a wonderful looking rifle too. It really stands out in the sunshine.

Well done and many thanks for sharing this beauty.

Cheerio,

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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: Roy]
      #291191 - 01/12/16 07:02 AM

.....I went back to see the build thread on this rifle but all the pics had gone....any chance of seeing them again ?

Roger

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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: Roy]
      #291192 - 01/12/16 07:04 AM

Fantastic to see you had a great time trying out a rifle that would not be out of place a century ago & its still performing just as good now!
Wonderful timber John - you have a good eye for picking the good bits!
Good horns on the top stinky too
Job well done mate


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JohnK
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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: yumastepside]
      #291199 - 01/12/16 08:07 AM

Thanks for the comments one and all.

Tony Small was the gunsmith who done the great work.

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.....I went back to see the build thread on this rifle but all the pics had gone....any chance of seeing them again ?

Roger




A couple of photos of the rifle.









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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: JohnK]
      #291200 - 01/12/16 09:59 AM

That is pure classic! Thanks for sharing the pictures.....all of them!

John

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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: TexasJohn]
      #291539 - 06/12/16 10:46 PM

Lovely rifle JohnK do you have contact details for Tony Small
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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: BigEyeBob]
      #291562 - 07/12/16 10:58 AM

John that is one sweet looking Lee. Good to see it out in the field. Next time I am up at Rob Blomfields I'll try and remember to take a camera. He has one built (not a lee Speed)on a Lithgow action from memory. Sweet looking and one of the best handling rifles I have ever shouldered. I would wager your Lee would be just as sweet handling.

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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: BigEyeBob]
      #291935 - 13/12/16 10:53 PM

Quote:

Lovely rifle JohnK do you have contact details for Tony Small
?






I think Tony has retired .


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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: darwinmauser]
      #291968 - 14/12/16 01:01 PM

This may be a stupid question (for give me if it is)But are those goats domestic goats gone wild. They make quite a trophy. I really like the dark colored one. Nice job on the rifle.

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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: Wayne59]
      #292033 - 15/12/16 08:43 AM

Quote:

This may be a stupid question (for give me if it is)But are those goats domestic goats gone wild. They make quite a trophy. I really like the dark colored one. Nice job on the rifle.




Sort of. Some goats were released in the early part of European exploring/inhabiting Aust. so ship wreck survivors and explorers would have a meat supply and others have been domestic stock run wild or just abandoned when stock price dropped to nothing.


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JohnK
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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: darwinmauser]
      #292070 - 15/12/16 04:21 PM

Quote:

Quote:

Lovely rifle JohnK do you have contact details for Tony Small
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I think Tony has retired .




Yes correct, he has. I sent a personal message re the other inquiry.

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JohnK
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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: Wayne59]
      #292073 - 15/12/16 04:33 PM

Quote:

This may be a stupid question (for give me if it is)But are those goats domestic goats gone wild. They make quite a trophy. I really like the dark colored one. Nice job on the rifle.




Wayne59, As stated the goats are feral from releases a century or two ago. They run wild and are to be found in large numbers in the right spot. There is a big market for them now (overseas) and they are mustered by the landowners for sale. A few photos of some in the wild.





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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: JohnK]
      #292078 - 15/12/16 05:44 PM

One more thing to hunt with Tracy and I visit!
wonderful post - thank you.

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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: DarylS]
      #294113 - 21/01/17 10:12 AM

What a beautiful rifle!

What rear sight is that you are using??


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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: PapaScarface]
      #294119 - 21/01/17 02:07 PM

Those goats seem to adapt really well.

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JohnK
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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: PapaScarface]
      #294447 - 29/01/17 08:09 PM

Quote:

What a beautiful rifle!

What rear sight is that you are using??




Mate,

Photo of rear sight attached.



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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: JohnK]
      #294448 - 29/01/17 09:30 PM

JohnK, I notice that you have a screw at the rear of the quarter rib holding it down. Is there another one under the fixed leaf holding down the front ?

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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: Waidmannsheil]
      #294452 - 29/01/17 11:09 PM



Lovely rifle. Not a bad set of horns on the billy too.

There were or are still a lot of feral goats in the Flinders Ranges. Probably escapees or released from mines, sheep station escapees etc. They do very well there. Haven't hunted there for a long time for goats. Have just been recently thinking I would like to find a place or two again. Trouble is as said, the landowners can sell the goats for good money. Hell I would pay a reasonable amount for a few goats, just to climb around the valleys, cliffs and ridges again. A problem is none of the landowners think you will just shoot a handfull. Just like in the old days, they wanted huge mobs bombed up, and didn't like you shooting only a handfull, their thinking still can comprehend any different result. Well probably not all of them. I would like to hunt good spectacular rugged country which is also the harder country to muster by motorbike.

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JohnK
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Re: Lee Speed in the field [Re: Waidmannsheil]
      #294489 - 30/01/17 05:29 PM

Quote:

JohnK, I notice that you have a screw at the rear of the quarter rib holding it down. Is there another one under the fixed leaf holding down the front ?

Waidmannsheil.




I actually can't answer that question. It was all left to the gunsmith. I know he made the quarter rib and that it is silver soldered on. I don't know what is under the rear sight. Sorry.

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