Another question about my No.5 rear sight...

I have two rear sights and associated parts purchased and on the way. Now, will this rear sight assembly fit on this rifle with the scope still mounted? I have no idea how far forward the rear sight will fit. I have no qualms about trimming the scope mount for clearance.

I'm hoping so, 'cause I kinda like the scope, and I can always take it and the mounting bracket off. I know it doesn't belong there, but it doesn't really offend me much.

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This little rifle's got all kinds of stamps in the stock.

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You may have to trim the back of the base a bit but you have enough room under the scope to clear the battle sight. The bigger question is will you be able to use the sight at closer ranges with the base attached.

Next question....can anybody tell me how to field strip this rifle? Don't want to detail strip it, just field strip. I just want to separate the wood from the metal enough so that I can give the metal parts a good cleaning. You can see that it's filthy.

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Originally Posted by rondog

Next question....can anybody tell me how to field strip this rifle? Don't want to detail strip it, just field strip. I just want to separate the wood from the metal enough so that I can give the metal parts a good cleaning. You can see that it's filthy.

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That isn't a field strip. A field strip is: remove the bolt and magazine, remove the magazine platform. We not supposed to even unscrew the bolt head. If it was me, I'd just clean up those crevices with a small stiff brush.

However if you are determined, have you looked in the articles here. I am sure that I saw some helpful stuff ages ago.

I would suggest doing some of this.....

Collecting and Shooting the Enfield No. 5 - Rifle Disassembly/Reassembly

I removed my No5 from the stock but I didn't go crazy dissembling much more.

Just remember before you start Rondog that the No5 is particularly sensitive to the fit of the fore-end. Even more so than the No4 for various reasons... So if you DO decide to remove the fore-end, make sure that contrary to what might seem obvious, you REMOVE THE FORE-END BY TAPPING THE REAR SIDES EVENLY DOWNWARDS WITH A BLOCK OF WOOD to loosen the rear first. This will break the taper fit between the fore-end, the draws and the butt socket then allow it to drop down parallel.

Pull it down at the muzzle first and you WILL destroy the draws in the fore-end. And without a set of good draws in a No5, then any hope of accuracy, such as it is, will disappear!

Well, hmmmmm. Maybe I'd better just leave it asembled and try to clean it up as-is. I certainly plan on shooting it, and I like to hit what I shoot at!

Thank you!

Who'd have thought it, 40 yars ago when we were knee deep in FTR-ing hundreds and hundreds of No5 rifles that today they'd be sought after collectable rifles, especially those marked with our Malaya markings. I never ever dreamed that I'd need to remember all of this stuff!

I also remember what a chore it was when a group of us would take hundreds to the Armourers test range and sit there all day just range testing and zeroing them. The Queen supplied the ammo but no such thing as ear plugs/protection and not even a shirt between the butt plate and our shoulders. Then after work, we'd get back to darning socks and knitting scarves for the needy............... That's what I told my mum anyway!

Peter,

Can you please describe "draws?"

Thanks,

Mike

Ah, yes. There are two sorts of DRAWS. There's them that ladies wear and there's those at the back end of the No1,4 and 5 fore-end. The draws are the little ramps you will see that mate up with similar wide areas, just immediately to the rear of the sear axis pin. These ramps are inclined at a slightly different angle to the angle of the butt socket and they draw the fore-end hard to the rear so that it butts up firmly to the butt socket.

There is a lot more theory than that of course but that's basically it. You could read a whole big section on fitting fore-ends that I wrote several years ago...........