longbranch sniper build with modern scope. the purists are screaming..........

[303Guy]

mrbungle, I'm very interested to hear how your rifle shoots shoots after full original bedding. It's looking real good. The No4 is the finest looking military rifle ever in my opinion and that side mount scope base is just dandy and requires no holes drilled right? That is the cartridge eject screw hole that's being used isn't it?

ssj, how does one get ahold of that download?

What is the expected accuracy of a properly bedded,scoped No4 (as in used for sniper rifles)? Is a 100 or 200m accuracy test enough to show the true accuracy of these rifles? What standard is used, 5 shot or 10 shot?

My accurate No4 as accurate as it was, was sensitive to how it was held. That actually makes it 'inaccurate' in military or even hunting terms. (I've fixed that now by re-bedding it properly).

Thanks, Peter. I'd suggest the effort involved in inletting of the action for free-floating would make it impractical for mass production even if it was equal to fore-end bedding. As it is they were corked packed which seems much simpler and quicker.

That 25-303 of mine has the same barrel profile and length as the SMLE. It did have a damping device on the muzzle in the form of a mini-suppressor. Maybe it was pure luck that the barrel harmonics were just right.