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Enfield rifle may refer to several different weapons, listed below in order of their introduction. Following each are the production start date and bullet or round used.
- Pattern 1853, 1853, .577 calibre Minié-type muzzle-loading rifle-musket
- Snider–Enfield, 1866, .577 Snider / .577/450 Martini–Henry, initially a modification of the Pattern 1853
- Martini–Enfield, 1878, .303 British
- Lee–Enfield, 1895, .303 British (a version of the Lee-Metford using smokeless powder)
- Pattern 1913 Enfield, 1913, .276 rimless
- Pattern 1914 Enfield, 1914, .303 British
- M1917 Enfield, 1917, .30-06 Springfield, the "American Enfield"
- EM-2 rifle, 1950 Experimental British Assault Rifle .280 British
Usage examples of "enfield rifle".
Below him the Enfield rifle thudded again, the sound muted by distance, almost lost in the roar of a new avalanche of murderous rock.
It had been an abrupt bark, not a pistol shot or the deeper boom of an Enfield rifle musket.
Blaine stood with the Lee Enfield rifle on his hip, and with his back turned to them faced the line of six crippled horses.
Fergus spoke to one of them in a whisper and he pointed down into the misty hollow, then spat and worked a round into the breech of the Lee-Enfield rifle which was propped on the windowsill.
He also added the Lee-Enfield rifle to the top of one load, being careful to strap it tight.
Just after four and van Delden sitting on a rock, his beard limned in light, his head bent over an old Lee Enfield rifle, checking the magazine.
The British used a cartridge of this type in their Snyder conversion of their Enfield rifle muskets, and it had a reputation as a highly effective round.
Jan Cheroot dashed into the yard, panting from his run, carrying the Lee-Enfield rifle at high port across his chest, sweat streaking down from under his brimless pillbox infantry cap and his face crumpling with dismay as he saw Zouga's bloody torn face.
There was an Enfield rifle in there, too, the basic weapon of the British Infantry, a sort of gun which may have killed him.