You stole it! At that price you got a great buy.
I never owned an Enfield, although I've shot a couple. They have a different feel than what I'm used to, but they are nice rifles. I have a Swedish Mauser which, like Walt, I like a lot. I've shot it out to 300 yards (we are blessed with some very good shooting facilities here in Southern NH) and it holds its relative accuracy very well. The accuracy limit is really the open sight arrangement. You see a lot of them sporterized with scopes added. I will never do that to mine. I went out looking on the net and found all the "stuff" for it as well - blank adapter, bayonet, Swedish military cleaning kit, stripper clips, original sling, and so forth.
The Mauser model 96, like the Enfield, cocks on closing, rather than opening the bolt. Some people don't like that. But, I have a good friend that was a small arms instructor in the Army during the Korean war. He had the experience of watching some WWII British veterans shoot Enfields, and told me that they had a basically two part motion down to the point where they could maintain sustained, accurate fire, for all practical purposes, about as fast as a Garand. This level of training among British regulars was one reason the British were so slow in adopting an autoloading battle rifle, according to my friend.
My personal favorite military bolt action from that era is the Krag-Jorgensen. I never shot a U.S.A. version, but one of the very first firearms I owned as a teenager was a Norwegian Krag in 6.5 x 55. They're not strong actions, having only one locking lug, but they are so smooth and sweet you just want to keep working that bolt for the way it feels! And the 6.5 x 55 is just a joy to shoot and handload, which is why I jumped on the Swedish Mauser when they were being imported for cheap here, what, ten years ago now?
