Jungle Carbine with Ishapore screw

[billy67]

Hi,
Just grab this Jungle Carbine today and she has an Ishapore screw on the stock
Its an ROF (F) 1944 10/44
Rifle doesn't have any markings on top of the receiver neither on the butt socket.
There's a small circle stamps on the butt stock located in the channel cut for the sling

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[Son]

Looks good. Nearly identical to mine which is a C prefix 11/44 Faz. The only other hints to Indian ownership on mine are the extra large hole in the bolt knob 7/16" and tiny stamp on the top of the elevation dial 'RFI'. I understand India stripped off the suncorite to expose the blue below. Might get some more info on this here shortly... I am away from my books atm.

[Peter Laidler]

To be honest if the rifles were painted OVER the blueing, then there's not real point because certainly sunkorite will take and look good, even after baking, it needs a good keyed surface. So it'll look good for, say 20 minutes on a good day. That is until the crunchies get their sweaty mossie repellent hands on it!

[muffett.2008]

Good stuff that Repellant, used to come out of the Donga after a weeks sneak and peek, not many bites, but the greens were rotted away.

[Son]

To be honest if the rifles were painted OVER the blueing, then there's not real point because certainly sunkorite will take and look good, even after baking, it needs a good keyed surface. So it'll look good for, say 20 minutes on a good day. That is until the crunchies get their sweaty mossie repellent hands on it!

Hi Peter.
I've had nothing at all to do with suncorite, either the product on rifles or the process to put it there. Something Ive never seen confirmed as best as I can recall, were all No5's painted, or were the early ones blued? If painted, the blued ones out of India must have been refinished there which would explain the original markings being all but removed on a lot I have seen.

here's pics of mine...

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[Bindi2]

Hi Peter.
I've had nothing at all to do with suncorite, either the product on rifles or the process to put it there. Something Ive never seen confirmed as best as I can recall, were all No5's painted, or were the early ones blued? If painted, the blued ones out of India must have been refinished there which would explain the original markings being all but removed on a lot I have seen.

here's pics of mine...


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Is that Rust I see. Mmmm no don't grease it. Balistrol is very good.

[Peter Laidler]

Ah, yes I see now. That isn't blueing as we know it but the old original 'browning' or controlled corrosion process. It was quite a long winded process apparently. This was replaced by the far superior bead blasting by tumbling a zillion parts in a drum, through the phosphating tank which was the actual parkerizing/rustproofing followed by drying and then the hot booth to be sprayed with the rich lusterous sunkorite. This was the really hard tough black painted surface. But it needs a good keyed surface to get its teeth into but once baked on, it's good