If you can find a decent barrel from a reputable source, get it cheap so you don't have to pay much for re-barrelling, headspace and then it shoots OK...I guess it will be workable.
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If you can find a decent barrel from a reputable source, get it cheap so you don't have to pay much for re-barrelling, headspace and then it shoots OK...I guess it will be workable.
Is the .303 round you are using to check the chamber a brand-new factory one, or a reloaded one? If it is a reload from another rifle, and only neck-sized, it might not fit in this rifle even if it is a .303!
Could it be chambered in one of the 303 wildcats like 303/25 or 303/270? These would also not chamber a standard 303 round.
If your rifle is a .308, about the only Ishapore 2A 7.62 part which would be of any use to you is the magazine.
Although intended for a No 1 style action, they will fit the No 4 or No 5 action and feed reliably - better than the Sterling 7.62 mags in my experience.
The neck sized reloads from my No4 will not chamber in my No1. They stop at about the same place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maxwell Smart
Just a minute chaps........... We're REALLY complicating an extremely simple scenario here with all this talk of this that and the other.........
If it's already in 7.62mm then all you need to do is to check that it CHS's with the bolt and bolt head that you already have. If not, then get someone who knows what he's doing to adjust it so that it is. Find a 7.62mm extractor from Brian(?) at BDL Ltd
Mount the barrel in a lathe, muzzle end first complete with the body. Insert the bare (or a spare) bolt and use the striker hole as the centre to support it. Now machine the smaller diameter for the flash eliminator at the length of the true No5 barrel. Leave the main barrel the diameter it is because......
Now modify a set of tatty No4 fore-end and handguard to No5 spec. Get a No5 butt or modify a No4 butt to No5 spec using a No5 butt plate assembly
There it is. You've got yourself a cheap to run, shootable good fun No5 look-a-like for cheap. I say cheap on the basis that 7.62 is cheaper than .303!
Later on, if you can find a cheapo 7.62mm magazine, all the better. I know it's not original, but it wasn't before in any case. And if you put (or even find.....) a new barrel on it, it still ain't original and you've STILL got ti find original wood and......... It's called KISS
i took it to range and it shots 308 well it does ejects shells just not perfect if i can get a clip or if anyone knows if u can modifie existing one thx for all the info
[QUOTE=arthurj;274788 if i can get a clip or if anyone knows if u can modifie existing one thx for all the info[/QUOTE]
Practically impossible to modify the existing magazine to feed .308
The "proper" 7.62 magazines can be expensive and not all that easy to find.
I would think that in the Ishapore 2A 7.62 magazine might be your best bet..
First two images show an Ishapore type magazine in a No4 L8 clone; the third shows the three most common types of 7.62 mags (Ishapore/Sterling/Enfield)
I just used my existing mag and single loaded 7.62. It was only a platform. Never had much ejection problem, I canted the rifle to the right. It shot about as well...well, Peter already gave an opinion about that...
anyone know were to get a magazine in canada?
You may have to attend the next local gun show to find one. We have one at the Saanich Fairgrounds just at Halloween this year. Just a few days away. 26/27th of Oct. It's the big one for around here. There should be a few... It may cost you from $25-$35 but shouldn't be more than that. It will be used too.
You can be rest assured that if someone's making repro No4 magazines when there's not a world shortage of the real McCoy, then they'll soon be making repro 7.62mm magazines. Even if they can only be made to work successfully with a bit of fiddling.