Lee Enfield

**Bolt action, British precision rifle. Very accurate and very powerful. Too bad it doesn't have a scope on it.**

The Lee-Enfield is a Bolt action rifle, designed by James Paris Lee produced by RSAF Enfield from 1895 to 1957. The Lee-Enfield is primarily used by Britain and the Commonwealth during the 20th century.

## History

The **Lee–Enfield** or **Enfield** is a bolt-action, magazine-fed repeating rifle that served as the main firearm of the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th century, and was the British Army's standard rifle from its official adoption in 1895 until 1957. The WWI versions are often referred to as the *SMLE*, which is short for the common "Short, Magazine, Lee–Enfield" variant.

A redesign of the Lee–Metford (adopted by the British Army in 1888), the Lee–Enfield superseded the earlier Martini–Henry, Martini–Enfield, and Lee-Metford rifles. It featured a ten-round box magazine which was loaded with the .303 British cartridge manually from the top, either one round at a time or by means of five-round chargers. The Lee–Enfield was the standard issue weapon to rifle companies of the British Army, colonial armies (such as India and parts of Africa), and other Commonwealth nations in both the First and Second World Wars (such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada). Although officially replaced in the United Kingdom with the L1A1 SLR in 1957, it remained in widespread British service until the early/mid-1960s and the 7.62 mm L42A1 sniper variant remained in service until the 1990s. As a standard-issue infantry rifle, it is still found in service in the armed forces of some Commonwealth nations, notably with the Bangladesh Police, which makes it the second longest-serving military bolt-action rifle still in official service, after the Mosin–Nagant (Mosin-Nagant receivers are used in the Finnish 7.62 Tkiv 85). Total production of all Lee–Enfields is estimated at over 17 million rifles.

The Lee–Enfield takes its name from the designer of the rifle's bolt system—James Paris Lee—and the location where its rifling design was created—the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield.

## In-game performance

In game the Lee-Enfield is a tier 2 rifle using sniper ammo, holds five rounds contrary to the 10 round magazine used by the IRL version. It loads rounds one by one akin to a shotgun instead of using 5 round stripper clips to reload instantly.

The Lee-Enfield boasts high damage and a decent headshot multiplier, making it consistently able to one shot zombies to the head no matter the difficulty. The 1.00x pierce allows it to takeout 2 zombies at the same time if they were lined up, making it a decent crowd control weapon for small to medium hordes if the user is skilled enough.

The sluggish reload and the need to work the action after every shot however can lead to the user being overwhelmed, and the loud firing noise doesn't help it either as it draws too much attention, especially on higher difficulties as the zombies gain more sensitive hearing.

Most importantly, acquiring it may be a little bit difficult, as tier-2 items require the difficulty to be progressed to at least medium and/or the riot zumbie boss to be defeated ***[needs confirmation]***.

Overall it is a good weapon for open space combats, especially when the user has a comfortably long distance away from the zombies to vex the target afar.

## Trivia

* As mentioned before the Lee-Enfield holds 10 rounds in a magazine instead of the 5 round shown in game.
	+ This is possibly that the Lee-Enfield in game uses the magazine of the Lee-Speed (a hunting rifle variant of the Lee-Enfield designed for civilian use) or it has some sort of limiter in the Magazine.
* The Lee-Enfield's magazine is actually detachable much like most modern day rifles, however this was not the practiced method for reloads as the steel magazine is expensive to produce and soldiers might lose it if removed frequently.
* The in game model is possibly based on the No.1 MK III variant, indicated by the rear sight placed in the middle of the rifle instead of being behind the receiver on the later variants.
* The tool tip mentions "Too bad it doesn't have a scope on it" might be a reference to the L42a1 Lee-Enfield, a 7.62x51mm conversion of the Lee-Enfield used by Britain and its commonwealth as a purposed sniper rifle (unlike the Lee-Enfield's role as a standard infantry rifle).
	+ This speculation is reinforced by the cheek-pad fixed on the stock of the rifle, which the L42a1 have.
		- This highly suggests the "Lee-Enfield" in game is actually an L42a1, and uses 7.62x51mm instead of .303 British