A No4 Lee Enfield in 45 acp :)

[louthepou]

Hi folks,

Thought I'd share this here. A guy in Canada made a run of barrels for the No4 action, chambered in .45ACP, and ordered magazine adapters from the US. I bought one kit, and in echange for some labor which this fellow did for me, I agreed to "dress up" his .45 No4. I'll work on mine later this year...

So here's the result; the barrel's final shape isn't done yet (the owner will do it), nor is the metal refinished, my responsibility just involved the wood. It was my first attempt at carving a cheek rest, which took longer than I'd hope (true fitting between it and the butt stock isn't regular shaped!)

Lou

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Range report prhaps?

[louthepou]

I wish I could try it at the range! This one, which doesn't belong to me, still has to get its extractor groove machined on the rear face of the barrel.

Meanwhile, my own .45acp No4 is far from ready. Too many jobs for other Lee Enfield enthusiasts to work on my own guns...

Hopefully this summer, I'll make the time for this project.

Lou

[tiriaq]

I now have got some work done on mine. Used a barrel I had on hand, which needs to have a Savage 110 type barrel nut made. Or, I could just use some thread locker until I get the nut made. That would enable test firing.

[browningautorifle]

I built one years ago and they're great. I used a little fixed four scope and now you could use a red dot or something equal because of the shorter ranges acheived with .45. Just like a giant .22 rifle. I was loading a .4525 half jacket(.45 Colt) bullet with excellent results.

[arkshooter]

I did such a conversion on a Golden State Arms 03A3 about 20 years ago. Used an old Volunteer Arms 45 barrel. Of course the bolt head was not a problem, but without checking to be sure, I would figure you would have to reconfigure the 303 bolt head. Enlighten me on that issue, as I have a junker No4 floating around taking up space.

[browningautorifle]

I just used the bolt head as is.

[bigduke6]

I,ve built 3 all work fine, first was based on a Rhineland arms kit, the other two I purchased the barrel blanks and chambered, threaded (had a locking ring similar to the savage) and profiled to suite, the mag adapters were from another builder of the kits but were double the price of the ones from rhineland.

Interest dropped over here as a company was producing De-Lisle carbine replicas, and also another company who produce AR15,s produced a 9mm version that was a blowback but the bolt was released by a lever.

[Peter Laidler]

I think I mentioned this in another associated thread and apparently, if you use a 7.62mm L39/42 extractor, the deeper claw pushes the spent case hard into the inner side of the body and the extra friction positively ejects the case

[jonnyc]

I got a kit a bit ago from Special Interest Arms and did the conversion on a rough No.4 I had. It went well and I really love the rifle. I load .45 Super for it, trying to get the most out of the strong action and longer barrel. The receiver was already D&T'd so it now also sports a cheap scope I had lying around. I modified the standard extractor, but I'm not really happy with it. Where might one find a 7.62mm L39/42 extractor?