Quote Originally Posted by BritishBeer View Post
I'll have a check on the articles regarding the barrel bands (apologies if that's the wrong nomenclature) but as far as I've heard before the idea is to fire a series of groups and see how tight they work best?
There is a school of thought for target shooters that at the centre band point the barrel has a new bearing underneath and that this point the top is packed with cork to give a mid point bearing all around, forward of this the barrel is made fully floating. However looking at the original no4 setup Ive not seen anything that suggests there is any part of the top woods bearing down or touching on the barrel (if Ive understood correctly). On top of that the std no4 setup at the front bearing with 3 to 5lbs upward pressure with the top wood above free seems and gives the best long term results from what Ive read. There is a youtube series on accurising enfields back to "as issued", : The Lee Enfield Accuracy Secrets Channel - YouTube. So your first work IMHO is look for defects and correct to whats is a 50~70 year old gun. Especially as during the war and indeed afterwardsas furniture wood was very variable in quality and hence bad effect on accuracy. For instance I have an un-issued lower forestock that has virtually no support for the trigger gaurd in the safety side of the magazine cutout, I will have to add wood or synthetic bedding material to fix that.

If Ive not read/written this correctly, I'd be pleased to be corrected as Im currently setting my gun up as std, or what I think/hope is std.

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Quote Originally Posted by RCEMERalf View Post
I was always told that the reason the Brits drink warm ( or at least not chilled) beer is that Lucas made refrigerators with the same reliability as their automotive electrics.
We hold the beer in a cool cellar, we dont chill beer as that kills taste buds. I suppose its obvious why yanks, Ozzies and NZers do it, it hides the [non]-flavour of otherwise awful beer. I now live in NZicon (18 years) I so miss a decent pint...