Hi Gents, is anyone able to advise me what the barrel dimensions are for the No8 rifle? I'm interested in the diameter at the muzzle, whether it's tapered and if so by how much, and the length from...
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Hi Gents, is anyone able to advise me what the barrel dimensions are for the No8 rifle? I'm interested in the diameter at the muzzle, whether it's tapered and if so by how much, and the length from...
In my opinion there are a lot of newcomers to the sport of vintage and service rifle shooting and to Lee Enfield “enthusiast” collecting. In my business we’d rebuild several no1s and no4s every...
I can send new repro No4 barrel to Canada without any hassle.
I have heaps. I contracted Lothar Walther to make them for me and I’ve got standard and H profile as well as more no4 barrels in .303 and .308 due late this month.
I export to Canada and NZ and I...
I’ve set them up before with pic rail mounted to the bracket. Once I think it was an off the shelf arrangement that fit (client supplied). The next time I machined it to suit.
Does the rifle have a heavier than standard barrel? Sometimes the rivets and steel reinforcing pieces need to go to carry say a Lithgow Heavy no4 barrel in 7.62.
Go on, pull the barrel out and fix it!
If you go the fibreglass route, use epoxy resin and a woven cloth and not polyester and chopstrand mat. The epoxy sticks to anything and you can almost be guaranteed of a very good bond. Polyester...
On the topic of caibre conversions, I've just completed a 45-70 and have several .44 Magnum conversions coming up.
I got a reamer custom ground for this a few years ago and built a rifle up for a guy. I ran a new heavy sporter 1:12" twist barrel and set it up in L42 style wood. I tested it with 155gn sierra SMKs...
... no1 “H” profile and no4...
I had a batch made to .311 major bore diameter. It’s no drama for me to export to Canada either.
These were done by Lothar Walther and shoot fantastic.
Any good paint stripper will remove the finish on the stock. The finish is probably just old built up and oxidized linseed oil, and if it's varnish it will make short work of that too. Be careful...
Hi Nijalninja, it would be hard to pickup a decent set of skills without some trade training. And either way is a long road. IMO you'd be best served to do a metal trade like fitting and turning or...
It’s a bit late now, but opening the crack and getting glue intonation t is absolutely essential to this sort of repair. The dowel should reinforce the repair not be the repair. May I suggest that...
They will go into either. I know the threads are not the same, but that is an SIA barrel, and it will go into no1 or a no4 without a drama. With that breeching collar it’s meant for no4.
If you get...
You’re missing the point Cinders. I’m not advocating butchering your rifles, and I’m not saying that stoning the cocking piece is something everyone should go out and do.
It is however and essential...
Hi Gents, a while ago I was doing a trigger job on a No4 or a No1 and I was trying to get the lowest safe trigger pull I could get, and the way I had been doing them to date (freehand on a stone)...
Here's the .223 No4 I'm running at the moment. I love it and shoot it most weekends, it gives me around MOA accuracy and just doesn't skip a beat. The pictured group was just the first rounds fired...
That rifles bedding is typical of the shoddy bridge-ups that are all too common. To properly sort it out it’s all got to go, and if the draws are loose, then they need to be patched out per Peter...
You are going to do more harm than good messing about with this. The bedding looks fine and probably just needs some finessing and crush collar adjustment.
That is a common look on your trigger...
If it's keyholing rounds I'd be replacing the barrel, and bedding it while I was at it. If it's throwing the odd one sideways, the stability of the rest has got to be pretty marginal
Armalon in the UK do a very nice no drill mount for no4. Head and shoulders above the ATI. Maybe have a look at that if you want to avoid drilling and tapping a nice rifle.
I’ve fitted them,it’s no drama. The receiver ring is soft and drills very easily.
It’s a very solid mount, as low a possible and the rear locking wedge is very strong and solid. On one that I fitted...
I had this issue recently and used a 10mm and 8mm carbide end mill to create a stepped hole in the position, into which I (soft) soldered a mating plug of silver steel, which I then drilled and...