Is there such a thing?

[Bill Hollinger]

Is there such a thing as a real No 5 carbine? What would I look for? A guy at work claims to have one but I don't know anything about them. He mentioned a plug in the butt stock???

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[Amatikulu]

Yes it exists and looks like this:









Check rear sight is graduated to 800 yards and bolt handle knob has hollow in the end.

If it has a stock disk on the left hand side, the rifle has been issued in Singapore

[Parashooter]

Wow! I didn't know they made a left-hand version like the top picture there.

Bill, FWIW, it's not generally called a "carbine" in official literature. It's the "Rifle, No.5, Mk.1".

[Edward Horton]

Wow! I didn't know they made a left-hand version like the top picture there.

Bill, FWIW, it's not generally called a "carbine" in official literature. It's the "Rifle, No.5, Mk.1".

Parashooter

What’s the story, is Amatikulu dyslexic, or did he put the camera lens on backwards (again)

At least he didn’t post his photos of his special salt water No.5 he keeps on his boat to shoot sharks. (or was that club sharks)

[Alan de Enfield]

Is there such a thing as a real No 5 carbine? What would I look for? A guy at work claims to have one but I don't know anything about them. He mentioned a plug in the butt stock???

Easy ways to tell a true No5 from a No4 thats been made into a No5 - Look for the 'cutouts' used to lighten it. (No5 at the bottom) - example : in front of the rear sight mount, Flutes in rear of barrel etc.

Not my picture, cannot remember where it came from, but credit to whoever was the photographer.

[Amatikulu]

I don't think I ever told any of you that I'm a left handed shooter - That reversed picture was taken by me when I had a crazy idea of trying to make a left handed lee enfield. The picture was the first step to help me conceptualize. Once I'd looked at it I abandoned the idea but filed the pic in my No.5 Mk.1 file.

Then again, maybe I have an extremely rare variant made for the OSS and kept an official secret until now!

[John Sukey (Deceased)]

Well strictly there is NO SUCH THING as a No5 carbine,
OR a "jungle" carbine

The CORRECT nomenclature is "rifle, No5 Mk1"

[Peter Laidler]

The nearest we have to jungle carbine at Warminster is mention of a jungle rifle and a jungle Bren. The jungle rifle was the No5 and the jungle Bren was the Mk3 lightweight Bren. But no Bren was actually 'light'. So to make sure you knew it was lighter than the others, but still heavy, they serially numbered the Mk3 Bren with an LB serial number prefix such as LB-33343

Oh yes, the rusted out No5 wasn't unusual in Malaya, especially with those patrolling in the mangrove swamp areas of the east and south Johore coast area. They'd be falling to bits but after a good sweat in the tank, bead blast, phosphate, oil dip and paint, they'd be back to tip top condition again within a week. But sometimes they were just fit for the chop

[rondog]

I just bought one in a pawn shop in Grand Junction, CO, for $150. I posted a thread with photos, but I don't see the thread here yet. Let's see if this photo takes.....

[limpetmine]

That is a nice, late carbine. PB has one later, but I've never seen one (other than pics) of one that late.