No. 5's really are a pain.

[muffett.2008]

Picked up another No. 5 as part of the amnesty handback, looked ok so decided to save it.
After sorting out the paperwork, I thought I'd better check it over, bit of surface rust, paperthin front barrel band and a shot out barrel.

No worries, had a good barrel in the box...........and that's where the fun started.
Both the original barrel and donor barrel were BSA, a '44 and a '45 date stamp, but one barrel was the standard flash eliminator fit, the donor barrel was fitted with a sleeve.......mumble mumble.

Now I remember removing that sleeved barrel, that rifle was original.....so what was with the sleeve. The new rifle had no sleeve...........also all original. I thought the sleeved flash hiders were an after market thing as I had only ever read about them on US forums.

After a bit of swearing to get the sleeve off, the donor barrel was fitted and all's right with the world again.Attachment 87365Attachment 87366Attachment 87367Attachment 87368Attachment 87369

Information

Warning: This is a relatively older thread This discussion is older than 360 days. Some information contained in it may no longer be current.