FINISHED IT.... So I had this spare No4 action, and a Jungle carbine barrel...

[louthepou]

Hey folks, for the past few weeks, I've been working on this one on and off.

Before the holidays, I bought a parts lot; in there was a decent jungle carbine barrel.

A few weeks later, I thought about what to do with it.

Looking at the "donor bin", I find an ugly No4 action. It had been spray painted with tremclad (very badly - moving parts were no longer moving, stuck in paint...)

I got to work. Stripped the paint, removed the rust, reblued (cold). Put the barrel on the action...



I didn't want to order the repro stock from Numrich (I find it's slightly not to scale with the original Jungle forend). I took a slightly bruised No4 forend. I cut it as far forward as I could while avoiding cutting into the lightening holes. I cut part of the forend tip, and screwed / glued it to the shortened forend.




Then, fun with the band sander. The Jungle forend is quite slimer than the No4..



I dediced to use the No4 forend metal "cap" to make the jungle forend cap:



I cut it in half, and did a tiny bit of mig welding to have it stay in place. I still have to clean up the weld.



What about the rear receiver "band", or ring, which holds the handguard in place? I didn't want to remove the flash hider to slide the ring in place (or remove the barrel again... Mind you I should have thought about that when the barrel was off!). So I cut the ring open, twisted it a bit, put it around the barrel, and mig welded it back together.



Time to carve the recess for the middle band:





And fix one of the screw holes in the butt stock (it was off by quite a bit)



Test fitting of the parts...




I still have to do final finishing of the parts, and adjust the trigger pull, but that's about it. Almost done...

Lou

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[Maxwell Smart]

Nice job, I have one done almost exactly the same way.

The Numrich jungle carbine stocks are modified No 4 ones, so you could have saved a lot of work!

[villiers]

Nice job, I have one done almost exactly the same way.

The Numrich jungle carbine stocks are modified No 4 ones, so you could have saved a lot of work!

Don´t think so! They cut the fore-end too short. Lou´s method is novel. I used a No. 4 fore-end and plugged the gap.

[louthepou]

Thanks Maxwell. Indeed, easier with Numrich's parts. But I had lots of parts around here, and they were already paid for

Pretty much finished it this weekend; mostly happy with the end result, except the metal cap at the front of the forend; the original one on the Jungle fully wraps around the end-tip (not just a "cup"); I may work on this later when it's warmer...

Lou

[vintage hunter]

Fine job. Now what we're all dying to know is how does it shoot?

[louthepou]

Fine job. Now what we're all dying to know is how does it shoot?

Argh, it won't be before April 26th before I get the time to test it!!! Range report will come, don't worry

[browningautorifle]

Looks good Lou.

[Roy]

It will probably shoot better than a real No.5. Was it the Pakistanis who built No.5s with No.4 actions and didn't have the wandering zero problem? Nice work.

[Patrick Chadwick]

Impressive! Would you call it a No.4-1/2 ? Looking forward to seeing the test target.

[Tatanka]

So? How does she shoot?