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OK, yes that'd be me. Your base is on the way. Your load is a good one. I'd be tempted to try the 180 grain Sierra Pro-Hunter flat base bullets just to see if it does away with the flyers. They're a bit cheaper and will shoot every bit as well if not better than the the Matchkings in a used barrel. If that doesn't cure it, then you can look at adjusting the forend bedding. Good luck.
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I've a hundred of sierra Sp 180 grains. I'll try ! i discovered that rim thickness is variable from brass to brass even 0.02 mm, same brass manufacturer. If i lift up the reinforce patched it, upward pressure at fore end will be lost..receiver rear bearings will be lost also.. So what about lowering all the bearing points some decimals of a millimeter? It's only a newbie idea. Feel free to raise your objiections against me!!
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If the rifle barrel and body is fitting correctly in all of the correct places EXCEPT the reinforce, then you simply need to machine out the centre of the reinforce, slide in and glue a patch and then carefully and gently chisel it away so that the barrel bears on the centre 13mm. Then take it carefully down until the body bears evenly. Then if this is the case with yours, you are back to as it should be BUT with a GOOD reinforce bearing.
But be advised, the reinforce bearing was the hardest to do. Some fore-ends were made with low reinforce bearings so we had to patch these even before we started fitting them. Of course, in the big workshops we had a jig with a dovetail cutter that we could use (I seem to remember someone showed a photo of one that had been done with the dovetail miller....... Can we see it again?).
Top marks for trying this Bow but this level of craftsmanship which is akin to quality cabinet making is a long taught but lost art now, except for a few hardy souls like T/box, T/Bone, Roger P etc etc on this site. They're very practical 'follow-me/watch-me' skills as opposed to read-from-a-book skills.
Off the subject slightly, one of my old Sergeants, Wilf Attrill, used to work part time for an antique restorers, restoring old antique furniture and the like. I used to watch this maestro at work in the workshop after hours (he used to let me french polish...) and he told me that this antique furniture restoratioin was absolutely simplicity itself compared with the fore-end fitting and wood patching that Armourers used to do
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[QUOTE=Peter Laidler;19145
Off the subject slightly, one of my old Sergeants, Wilf Attrill, used to work part time for an antique restorers, restoring old antique furniture and the like. I used to watch this maestro at work in the workshop after hours (he used to let me french polish...) and he told me that this antique furniture restoratioin was absolutely simplicity itself compared with the fore-end fitting and wood patching that Armourers used to do[/QUOTE]
Now you're talking about a lost skill pete, time consuming but a pleasurable result, and fun to get the stain off the hands. I remember it well.
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What a good point Captain Laidler! I'm beginning to think that fitting accurately a fore-end is like to make a First Empire table. A friend of mine who makes acustic guitar will give the needed help with precison wood-tools and some adviceses. I'll post photos as soon as possible to make my sweat evident to other enfield's fascinated. Thanks!
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Before i have got two fore ends ordered in internet to follw my apprenticeship period withouth altering the rifle, i'm trying some brass shims between the buttstock and original fore end. Tht is what i found:
-Packing fore end at buttstock bearing Raise the amount of barrell pressure at fore end. Well!! I have also the wished bearings at the reinforce. It was only needed 0.05 mm. shims. Only problem is the hanguard fit, i feel some strenght to fit rear hanguard screw. Why?
The shims are only dodgy, i know. But i have to wait the shipment of a couple of fore end.
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Question. do you know that the two flyers were shot exactly the same as the other 8 - same breathing same grip position and intensity on teh rifle, same cheek weld sigh picture etc. if you get a good group and two flyers - 99 percent of the time the flyers are teh shooters fault. Also it depends what exactly the group size was. You could get 8 shots inside 1 inch at 100 meters, and the two flyers were 2 inches away in one direction. NOT necessarily flyers, but the capability of the rifle and the ammunition combination you are using could simply be a 3 inch group at 100 meters, whihc isn't bad at all with old rifles - and if you kept firing another 30 or so rounds you would find that this is consistent and the area between them fills in. This is the whole basis of grouping and is often very misunderstood.
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