Editing Lee–Enfield (section)

===.22 training rifles===
{{main|No.8 rifle}}
Numbers of Lee–Enfield rifles were converted to [[.22 calibre]] training rifles,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rifleman.org.uk/Enfield_small-bore_training_rifles.html |title=Lee–Enfield and other Training Rifles and Associated Equipment in .22RF and other miniature calibres |publisher=N.R.A.(U.K.) - Historic Arms Resource Centre |access-date=14 February 2012}}</ref> in order to teach cadets and new recruits the various aspects of shooting, firearms safety, and marksmanship at a markedly reduced cost per round. Initially, rifles were converted from obsolete magazine Lee–Metford and magazine Lee–Enfield rifles<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rifleman.org.uk/Enfield_Rifle_RF_Short_Mks_1_and_2.htm |title=Lee–Enfield Rifle RF Short Mks.I and II (II) |publisher=N.R.A.(U.K.) - Historic Arms Resource Centre |access-date=14 February 2012 |archive-date=21 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121011955/http://www.rifleman.org.uk/Enfield_Rifle_RF_Short_Mks_1_and_2.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{sfn|Skennerton|2007|pp=481–483}} but from the First World War onwards SMLE rifles were used instead. These were known as ''.22 Pattern 1914 short rifles''<ref>{{cite web|author=SHOT Backwards Design Company |url=http://www.rifleman.org.uk/Enfield_Rifle_.22RF_Pattern_14.html |title=Lee–Enfield Rifle .22RF Pattern 14 |publisher=N.R.A.(U.K.) - Historic Arms Resource Centre |access-date=14 February 2012}}</ref> during The First World War and ''Rifle, No. 2 Mk. IV''<ref>[http://www.rifleman.org.uk/Enfield_Rifle_No.2.html]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref> from 1921 onwards.{{sfn|Skennerton|2007|p=484–489}} They were generally single-shot affairs, originally using Morris tubes chambered for the cheap .22L cartridge and some larger types, circa 1907. Some were later modified with special adaptors to enable magazine loading. In 1914, Enfield produced complete .22 barrels and bolts specifically for converting .303 units, and these soon became the most common conversion. A five-round .22 cal Parker-Hiscock magazine was also developed and in service for a relatively short period during the later period of the First World War, but was subsequently withdrawn from issue due to reliability problems with its quite complicated loading and feeding mechanisms.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rifleman.org.uk/Enfield_Rifle_Pattern_18_303cum22.htm |title=Lee–Enfield Pattern 18 – ".303 cum .22" (II) |publisher=N.R.A.(U.K.) - Historic Arms Resource Centre |access-date=14 February 2012 |archive-date=11 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211081353/http://www.rifleman.org.uk/Enfield_Rifle_Pattern_18_303cum22.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{sfn|Skennerton|2007|p=484,488}} No. 2 Mk. IV rifles are externally identical to .303 calibre SMLE Mk III* rifles, the only difference being the .22 calibre barrel, empty magazine case, bolthead and extractor which have been modified to fire .22 calibre rimfire cartridges.{{sfn|Skennerton|2007|p=489}}

After the Second World War, the ''Rifle, No. 7'', ''[[No.8 rifle|Rifle, No. 8]]'' and ''Rifle, No. 9'', all .22 rimfire trainers and target rifles based on the Lee action, were adopted or in use with cadet units and target shooters throughout the Commonwealth, the No.8 as of 2017 has been replaced among cadet forces due to obsolescence.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rifleman.org.uk/Enfield_small-bore_training_rifles.html |title=Lee–Enfield and other Training Rifles and Associated Equipment |publisher=N.R.A.(U.K.) - Historic Arms Resource Centre |access-date=14 February 2012}}</ref>{{sfn|Skennerton|2007|p=504–509}}

In Britain, a .22RF version of the No.5 rifle was prototyped by BSA and trialled with a view to it becoming the British Service training rifle when the .303" CF No.5 was initially mooted as being a potential replacement for the No.4 rifle.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rifleman.org.uk/Enfield_Rifle_No.5.html |title=Lee–Enfield Rifle No.5 .22RF |publisher=N.R.A.(U.K.) - Historic Arms Resource Centre |access-date=14 February 2012}}</ref>

The ''C No.7 22" MK.I rifle'' is a .22 single-shot, manually fed, training version of the No.4 Mk I* rifle manufactured at Long Branch.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rifleman.org.uk/Enfield_Rifle_No.7-C.html |title=The Lee–Enfield Rifle C. No.7 (Canadian) |publisher=N.R.A.(U.K.) - Historic Arms Resource Centre |access-date=14 February 2012}}</ref> Production of this model was 1944–1946 and a few in 1950 to 1953.<ref>{{cite web |author=Badger |url=http://www.milsurps.com/content.php?r=152-1944-C-No.7-.22-Caliber-Lee-Enfield-Training-Rifle|title=1944 C No.7 .22 Caliber Lee-Enfield Training Rifle |website=www.milsurps.com}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=May 2021}}