Sporterized No5 rear sight options

[baconslayer]

Thanks for the feedback. I will look into the Williams a bit more with the help of a gunsmith.

The charger bridge is still very well intact, its the sight mounting ears that were ground off.

As far as accuracy, not bad. I can hit an 8" gong at 65 yards easily. Not tried anything beyond that yet. The barrel is in excellent shape. I had heard the No. 5's were not that great at distances to begin with so no disappointments there.

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[Alan de Enfield]

The charger bridge is still very well intact, its the sight mounting ears that were ground off.

Sorry, my bad. The rear sight transverse bolt does take a lot of load - when I fitted my PH5C I overtightened the bolt and it locked the bolt solid, so I had to slacken it off. The side of the body does flex under recoil.

As far as accuracy, not bad. I can hit an 8" gong at 65 yards easily. Not tried anything beyond that yet. The barrel is in excellent shape. I had heard the No. 5's were not that great at distances to begin with so no disappointments there.

You do not say what the grouping was like but if they were scattered across 8" at 65 yards that is pretty poor accuracy, the rifle had to pass the following before 'QA' would reease it.


No 4 RIFLE TESTING
For the No 4 Rifle, the accuracy test was the same at 100ft ten per cent of all rifles were then fired at 200 yds when six of seven shots had to fall in a rectangle 6in x 6in , the point of mean impact having to be within 3 inches of the point of aim in any direction. Ten per cent of rifles fired at 200 yds were again fired at 600 yds when 6 out of seven shots had to be in a rectangle 18 inches x 18 inches the permissible deviation of point of mean impact being 9 inches up or down, or left or right. Two per cent of rifles were fired from the shoulder, ten rounds being fed into the magazine by charger and fired rapid to test “feeding up” and ejection. After these tests the barrel was inspected to ensure that there was no expansion in the bore or chamber and that it shaded correctly from end to end. (Was not bent)
No 5 TESTING
The firing test to which the No 5 rifle was subjected was the same as that for the No 4 at 100ft. It was not tested at 200 yds but 10 per cent were tested at 600 yards when the acceptance was ten out of ten shots contained in a rectangle 36 inches x 36 inches. Two per cent of the No 5 rifles were also submitted to the same functioning test as the No4 rifle.


The 100 feet (33 yards) accuracy requirement was : "Five rounds were then fired, and four of the five shots had to be contained in a rectangle 1 inch broad by 1½ in high".