Where have the good No5 rifle all gone?

[manykids]

I realize this is an old thread but I felt I needed to say something anyway. I picked up a Mk5 several months ago here in Montana for $600.00, all serial #s matching, even the # painted on the buttstock in fading blue paint. Strong rifling and not a speck of rust anywhere. Having to retune the magazine lips to get it to feed reliably with my handloads but making progress...is the reason I joined this forum. Ordered a Mk4 magazine a couple days ago from Numrich hoping to luck out and get one that might miraculously work well without any tuning... This carbine rested in my safe til just last week unfired what with my other projects taking up my time.

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[GeeRam]

Ordered a Mk4 magazine a couple days ago from Numrich hoping to luck out and get one that might miraculously work well without any tuning...

You'll be amazingly lucky if that happens.

Is the mag that came with the No.5 number matching?
If so, I would just keep tuning it until it feeds well, rather than fitting another one, that will also almost certainly need fine tuning as well.

[Mt203]

I realize this is an old thread but I felt I needed to say something anyway. I picked up a Mk5 several months ago here in Montana for $600.00, all serial #s matching, even the # painted on the buttstock in fading blue paint. Strong rifling and not a speck of rust anywhere. Having to retune the magazine lips to get it to feed reliably with my handloads but making progress...is the reason I joined this forum. Ordered a Mk4 magazine a couple days ago from Numrich hoping to luck out and get one that might miraculously work well without any tuning... This carbine rested in my safe til just last week unfired what with my other projects taking up my time.

Never saw any in Havre, you must be in the southern part of the state.