Maltby disappointment

[lngstrt]

Thanks for all the comments.

Numrich has 'good' barrels for about $70. Plus the original cost of the rifle plus smith charge to do the work ..... adds up to too much for a '43 Maltby in otherwise just 'OK' condition.

Might be a couple hundred $$ worth of parts besides the receiver and barrel. I think I'll tag it and put it away for the future.

[bigduke6]

If you bring the barrel back a turn, then you have to bring the muzzle end of the fore-end and top handguard back too, unless you slip the block, band, foresight forwards by that amount (a bit of a bodge really...........) Then you've got to re-fit the fore-end at the knox form to bed it again against the shallower taper....................

Get a used but good barrel!

Never said it was easy, just an option, no need to bodge, ( basic maths really ...) bedding goes without saying.

Would totaly agree on the " Used but good " barrel, plus its quicker.

But as Thunderbox pointed out No 4 barrels are becoming scarce (in the UK), not many buckets full on hand any more.
Last lot of barrels I had heard of were P14 barrels at scotarms, but dont know what the condition was, would suspect they were the leftovers of when the fasion of the day was to convert a nice P14 to a target rifle.

[Thunderbox]

A well-known gunsmith in SE UK quoted one of my clients £275 for a No4 barrel replacement - with a part-worn barrel. In UK at least, we are no longer able to rebarrel No4s economically or with new parts. Hence anything with a good bore is worth persisting with - chamber pits or whatever. Possibly the service armourers' "change it and bin it" might still be possible in the Enfield Aladdin's cave at Warminster, but thats usually not possible out in civvie shooter land...