UF55 Range Rifle

[Edward Horton]

The No.5 Enfield has a free floating barrel and has .020 clearance around the barrel and sides of the receiver. If your fore stock moves left and right then the action is not bedded properly and again most likely your front trigger guard bushing/collar is too long allowing the stock to move.

Below a drawing from my Enfield Renaissance manual minus any cork shims.

[Son]

"...and No5."


It has been my experience that the No5 forestock can be bearing on the left side of the barrel in the morning and bearing on the right side of the barrel by dusk---slippery little creatures that they are.
A cork pad from the Schattenbaum System will keep wood to metal bearing in stasis, which makes it's effect on each shot repeatable, which is the soul of accuracy.


-----krinko

Please correct me if I'm reading this wrong, but if a forestock bears one side in the morning, and the other side in the evening... and then you put a cork packer in it.... wouldn't whatever made it move before still be trying to make it move? Wouldn't this still influence the barrel, possibly worse than if it only touched at each end of the day?

[krinko]

I am not getting into a serious technical discussion of warping forestock theory. I've seen how that type of thread turns out and I'm just not interested.
I've been using little pads of cork for years to help full stocked military rifles overcome some of the problems the design incurs with age.
It works.
-----krinko

[Son]

I am not getting into a serious technical discussion of warping forestock theory. I've seen how that type of thread turns out and I'm just not interested.
I've been using little pads of cork for years to help full stocked military rifles overcome some of the problems the design incurs with age.
It works.
-----krinko

Fair enough, my No5 came to me thirty years ago with cork in the handguard. It had been to India, so I figured it was to stop the dried out shrunken handguard from rattling. The foreend is bedded correctly, luckily- no need for a bodge job.


These days I understand cork is out and credit cards are in

[madcratebuilder]

"...and No5."

MCB,
It has been my experience that the No5 forestock can be bearing on the left side of the barrel in the morning and bearing on the right side of the barrel by dusk---slippery little creatures that they are.
A cork pad from the Schattenbaum System will keep wood to metal bearing in stasis, which makes it's effect on each shot repeatable, which is the soul of accuracy.
"No tricks! No unpleasant bending!"---V.Stanshall "Mr. Apollo".

Photo is such a pad installed on my beautiful 4/45 Fazakerley, which shoots nice round groups.
-----krinko

Thanks krinko, I need to spend more range time with my No5. I'll give that cork pad a try.