Reading Major Reynolds "The Lee-Enfield rifle" book, page 154 paragraph 3,

"and they were the only ones to be fitted with barrels embodying six-grooved rifling"

Is this correct?

The reason Im interested in this is for 6 months Ive tried to get a new barrel and failed (ive even asked in the UKicon, Im in NZ). However TSEngineering in Australiaicon will sell/make me a no4 contoured barrel, but it has 6 grooves, not 5 (I assume its a CNC externally machined 26inch barrel to match a no4 barrel profile from something else) For our service rifle rules Im supposed to use as issued parts. Which is "funny" as the old timers tell me they went through piles of new barrels in years gone by looking for "good" ones. So yeah sure their barrels are military as issued but carefully selected. So I consider it somewhat unfair when they say I cant get one made to spec. Anyway unless Im unable to find such which after 6months I think is enough I need evidence that anything non-original follows as issued as closely as possible.

So has anyone seen these 6 groovers and / or has evidence they existed?
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