Correct Enfield pattern rifling available today...

[harry mac]

Brian I suspect you're right regarding the size of the market.

For those of us in the UK Malcolm Seller makes an excellent flat base 174gr .311" and a MkVI 215gr, not to mention all the heavier black powder stuff he produces.

Hi Mick, I hear Malcolm has retired, so no more BES Bullets.

[Strangely Brown]

Hi Mick, I hear Malcolm has retired, so no more BES Bullets.

Indeed Harry, sad news!

[harry mac]

I wonder what he's done with the dies?

[David TS]

Being the prophet of doom, as we are all not getting any younger, what happens when Peter Sarony retires..........

[ssgross]

Just out of curiosity, what does it take to get a barrel exported from the UK?

I'm dying to know the answer. I've been dying to find a 91/30 donor barrel for my mosin project for some time. McGowan will no long do original length, and won't mill for the sights either.

[Alan de Enfield]

I'm dying to know the answer. I've been dying to find a 91/30 donor barrel for my mosin project for some time. McGowan will no long do original length, and won't mill for the sights either.

As, in the UK, a barrel is a 'pressure bearing part' it requires the same licencing as a complete rifle, so I would guess (that's all it is) that the export procedure would be the same as for a rifle.

I have exported Lee Enfields to the US and Canada and basically what I needed to do was to get permission from the Police to sell / ship the rifle out of the UK, and tell them
1) the name of the final recipient,
2) the name and details of the importing company
3) and the name of the UK export shipper.

I ship the rifle to the export shipping company (at Heathrow Airport) they apply to the UK Government for an export licence, which is granted once the receiving import company confirm they have an import licence from their government and it is then put on an aircraft & shipped.
The final recipent then pays his importer freight, taxes, and fees and collects it from the importer.

I tell the UK Police it has been shipped (document from the export shipping company) and it is then 'written off' from 'existing in the UK'

[mrclark303]

I was shooting along a chap the other day with a No4, re barreled with a Armalon barrel, it was a great shooter I have to say....

As the price of No4's keeps climbing now as original shooting grade barrels become harder bto find, it's certainly an increasing attractive proposition for me.

[Alan de Enfield]

I was shooting along a chap the other day with a No4, re barreled with a Armalon barrel, it was a great shooter I have to say....

As the price of No4's keeps climbing now as original shooting grade barrels become harder bto find, it's certainly an increasing attractive proposition for me.

But it is only 'all original' once !

[mrclark303]

True mate, but if you want to keep the rifle and keep it as original as possible, then this is the option...

[Surpmil]

Being the prophet of doom, as we are all not getting any younger, what happens when Peter Sarony retires..........

One would hope he has an under-study to take over.