The Short Magazine Lee–Enfield therefore remained the standard British rifle during World War I and beyond. The primary contractor ( Vickers) was unable to produce more than a handful of rifles, so the P14 became a de facto afterthought. Conscripts of the Estonian Sakala Partisan Battalion with P14 rifles in 1939 or 1940. An advanced new rifle using a modified Mauser M98-pattern action was built to fire it, the Pattern 1913 Enfield (P13) effective mass production was still not in effect when World War I started, due to the logistical issues that introducing a new rifle cartridge in wartime would cause, so nothing came of it. This smaller, high-velocity round prompted the War Office to develop their own 'magnum' round, the. 303 British (7.7×56mmR) rimmed cartridge for which the P14 action was adaptedĭuring the Second Boer War the British were faced with accurate long-range fire from Mauser rifles, model 18, in 7×57mm caliber. 276 Enfield (7×60mm) rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge for which the action was originally designed. The Pattern 1914 Enfield was the successor to the Pattern 1913 Enfield experimental rifle and the predecessor of the U.S. It served as a sniper rifle and as second-line and reserve issue, until declared obsolete in 1947. It was a bolt-action weapon with an integral 5-round magazine. 303 Pattern 1914 (or P14) was a British service rifle of the First World War period, principally manufactured under contract by companies in the United States. Manual, as determined by skill of operator Sniper (telescopic and unmagnified), grenade launcher, US M1917 rifle

Pattern 14 enfield parts