Most accurate Enfield models

[enfield303t]

My No8 is a great shooter especially when my son uses it. Like some age and eyesight are starting to fail and that is very frustrating. My other Lee Enfield 22's shoot very well but can't hold a candle to the No8. It has not had a easy life from the looks of it but that has not had any effect on its accuracy.

Now the strange thing is the No8 has no problem with whatever ammo we feed it, high velocity, hollow point HV, standard velocity or subsonic?

We have never tried to see how it will group at 100 yards but shoot regular clays with it then proceed to shoot the pieces of the clays 'till they are too small to see.

Not to hijack this but my Cooey 82 will probably shoot as well as my No8 but again my eyes prevent me from shooting it that well.

[BushyFromOz]

my grandads Lithgow mod12.

Not an enfield, but their barrels are made from SMLE blanks.

[Patrick Chadwick]

On the general question of accuracy:
On Saturday I tested two rifles - an Ishapore 2A1 and an FN-built K98k Israeli Mauser
Both in .308WIN.
Both fitted with aperture rear sights, as I wanted to test the rifles, not my eyes.

Two loads were tried at 100 meters. Not bothered about position, just grouping.

The results illustrate what I wrote in my previous posting.

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The "Ishy" groups loosely but acceptably enough for an untuned service rifle. Note that the two types of ammo have very different POIs.

The Israeli has none of the tricky stuff with inner/outer bands, springs etc. Just trigger guard screws very carefully tightened up (NOT bedded) so that the barrel is not binding anywere. The group width is astonishingly good for iron sights - about 5/8" - and you cannot tell separate the two types of ammo - the POI is the same.

The height, however, shows the weakness of the Mauser foresight for target shooting - it is easy to hold the horizontal position very precisely, but one only has a vague idea where the top of the inverted-V blade is. So the vertical stringing is worse than with the squarer Enfield blade. The best answer for open sights is, of course, to use a square blade on a Mauser - it's the Carl Gustav, M1896, Swedish Mauser - call it what you will, it's good.

[tim98]

On the general question of accuracy:

Ha ! My Israeli does almost the exact same grouping as yours.