educate me on the no 5

[mattgunguy]

Got this today on an impulse for $125 out the door, but I dont know much about these little guys. Seems to be lacking the plethra of stamps and marks of my other enfields, and I thought they had a conical flash hinder, or did some not have one. Any insight would be appreciated.





















where would be a good starting point to locate a front sight / flash hinder if I need one.

Thanks
Matt

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[browningautorifle]

Right here on the WTB forum. There's one that has several and may sell you one. He'll probably jump in here right away. It's not that easy to do either but they will also give you instructions. Other than that, it looks pretty much normal...

[RJW NZ]

It looks good, you did right for the money, cheap rifle. Your rifle is Ok except someone cut off all the bits around the flash hider, a pretty common practise a few years back.
Numrich gun parts can do you a flash hider and retaining pins for under $35, I know cos I just bought one yesterday. ps they come in two ID diameters, one for a No4 conversion, so make sure you get the one that fits your barrel. It can be a home change over and I've also had one that was a bear, but usually gentle heating with oxy or similar will free them off. Exporting can be an issue, plus Numrich add quite a big surcharge for exported items, so if a member has one you could consider it too. Numrich is listed on enfield resource dot com.

[Bearclaw]

Mattgunguy,
Numrich ones are a copy, if you want a orginal Lawerence Ordanacne in Sydney (Australia) has the orginal and will post overseas.

Myles

[mattgunguy]

Thank you folks. Gives me a starting point. It'll be a few weeks anyways before i can do anything anyways. I'm not going to wait to to get to the range though.

[smellie]

Very nice, and all correct as you have her, lightening cuts and all. Lot of these have been faked the last few years, but this one is the real thing. Fazakerley, November, 1945. They used that ugly electro-pencil for some time late in the war and afterwards; I have no idea why they didn't use a proper marking-roll. Proofmarks are all correct. The "England" was put on when it was sold off.

You got a REALLY good deal!

Do let us know how she shoots.
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[muffett.2008]

It amazes me they way they do the work with that electric pencil. This rifle looks like it was as broad as a paintbrush, where as the writing on mine is so faint that I had to use cracktesting dye to highlight it enough to read.
It's Either a feast or a famine in this game. Good price though.

[drweiler]

Is 'T 2' the serial number? That's where mine show electro-penciled 5 character serial numbers. Is 'T 2' electro-penciled on your bolt handle? Nice purchase. Cheers, Don

[mattgunguy]

The bolt matchs I think. So faint its hard to tell. Should have the front sight fixed and a bayonet in the next few weeks . Goes well with the rest of my little enfield family.

[Peter Laidler]

I looked at the T2. It's not a factory number as they are a more modern/recent number stamp type. It looks as though another number has been linished out under the paint

As a matter of interest, why do you have to have ENGLAND on your rifles - apart from the obvious? Since when?