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Any ideas what this is ?
I have just purchased the following
Built on a ,
Long branch No4 Mk 1 * (bolt and action matching numbers) 1943
An Ishapore 7.62 mag
27" heavy barrel
marked CR1470, F923, D71.
7.62 mm 2.01
Regulated by Fulton
The sight is marked PH 5C
The bolt has been modified to extract 7.62.
The wood work is all over the place obviously cut down from something else and will hopefully be replaced with whatever it should be depending on your responses.
thanks.
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11-02-2009 05:50 AM
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It sounds like a fairly common type of gunsmith-built target rifle, as used in the 1970s and 80s. These are very similar to factory-built Envoys/L39s and tend to have the same list of parts:
- No4 receiver
- Enfield 7.62mm barrel - free floated
- Envoy/No8 forend or - more usually - cut-down No4 forend, either reamed out for the heavy barrel
- No4 .303 magazine (used as a single loader) or occasionally properly converted to Enfield 7.62mm magazine.
As "first generation" target rifles, these are no longer in demand (in UK at least) and often get stripped for parts. Its fairly common in UK to find these rifles at auction missing the target sight and magazine - which have been put on eBay...
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It was very common to have .303 magazines on these just as a loading platform. Nobody ever used a magazine anyway. No doubt someone has sought to enhance its marketability by fitting an Indian one (which were never seen here until recent years).
Those hammered rifling CR1470 barrels last for ages.
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