Hello,
I recently picked up a No 4 Mk 1 Enfield. It was really clean The bore is shiney with sharp rifiling.; my guess is that the dealer re-finished the wood and cleaned the metal before he placed it for sale. It has a BB pre-fix so I'm guessing from what I've read is was made at the BSA plant in 1943.
I took it to the range this past weekend and with Privi partisan 174gr FMJ it was grouping about 3" at 50yds and kinda all over the place at 100yds. When I got home, I slugged the bore and got a reading of .312 - .313 with the Privi bullets measuring at .310. WOW! what a difference!! I started reading in some of the forums out there about the rifle bore varied especially for war-time builds. Okay, I was going to reload for it anyway and I did see that Hornady has 150gr .312. I would like to try to get the full potential of this rifle, so I'm starting to gather information to accurize it while maintaining it's military configuration. I read about properly applying and maintaining linseed oilicon to the fore stock so not to cause shrinkage but I also was considering glas-bedding by the front lug/ 2" of barrel and the rear contact points of the receiver/forestock. Even where the butt stock mounts to the receiver. I've read conflicting information about free-floating. Is the barrel supposed to free-float the whole length or up to the end of the forestock where the wood is raised? Is there supposed to be any upward pressure at that point? Has anybody done this? Anything else to look for or consider? Any information would be appreciated. Thanks for looking!! :thumb:
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