Hello,I'm afraid that my query about the riot shotgun aspect of this SMLE was a bit misleading,I have taken it down off the wall for the first time in years and reminded myself what marks are on it,and where these marks are.It is a deactivated piece by the way,this, of course,is the only legal way that such things can be openly displayed in the UK. I'm wondering if the marks that are on this rifle can tell me a little about its possible history,the "been there"factor may well add greatly to its appeal.Apart from the bolt it does seem to be all original,the buttstock socket markings are crown/GR and LSA CO LD 1911.The serial number on the right side of the receiver is 3460 with no letter prefix,this number is repeated on the bayonet stud of the nosecap and the underside of the rear sight leaf.This does seem quite a low number considering the quantity that were produced,did this rifle go to France in 1914 I'm wondering??? There is an Indian connection with this weapon,of course,but did this come about much later in it's life?It was bored .410 at Ishapore in 1941 and is stamped to this effect on the left hand side of the buttstock socket,.410 RFI 1941 (can't imagine why I was thinking it was on the barrel band!!!)There is an Indian proof mark stamped on the breech,crown over GRI above two small crossed flags above a small letter P,this,I guess,was done after the rebore. I'm thinking that I have here an early SMLE Mk III Volley Sight Model that would have served throughout The Great War,and probably went to France with the BEF IN 1914.It then,sometime in the interwar years,for unknown reasons wound up in India,where it spent the last of it's service days engaged in crowd control.Someone once told me that the lead shot in the cartridges was replaced with rice for these purposes,this,I guess,was only when the crowds didn't seem too threatening!!! I suppose that I'll never know,but does anyone think that I may be somewhere near the mark with my thoughts on this.In the glory days of the far flung British Empire it may well have been anywhere,but the natives were getting restless!!! Chris.