Enfield in .223

[GeeRam]

interesting thread, having missed it first time around.

Love the idea of a buggered barrel No.5 converted to 7.62x39

[browningautorifle]

Love the idea of a buggered barrel No.5 converted to 7.62x39

Or, a barrel liner in 7.62x25...and modified Tokarev mags...

[tbonesmith]

Here's the .223 No4 I'm running at the moment. I love it and shoot it most weekends, it gives me around MOA accuracy and just doesn't skip a beat. The pictured group was just the first rounds fired after finishing.

[tiriaq]

Could an AICS .223 magazine be adapted? Double stack, single position feed, 10 shot. I have a couple for another rifle. Will see if a No. 4 adaptation would be possible.

Tried an AICS pattern magazine. Length should be OK, width at the front is too great. Might be possible to adapt the trigger guard and magazine well.

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Or, a barrel liner in 7.62x25...and modified Tokarev mags...

Shouldn't need a barrel liner - just a long chamber insert. Or the breech of the barrel cut off and made into a sleeve, with the barrel set back into it, and a new chamber cut.

[philb]

do you mean peter sarony ?....been doin them for years

[browningautorifle]

Shouldn't need a barrel liner - just a long chamber insert.

Good point, but he referred to a hooped barrel...would be the only reason to line...

[newcastle]

TBone sir - I don't suppose you could post a couple of pictures of the magazine arrangement and fitting that you use please? I don't want to reinvent something that has already been proven to work elsewhere

[newcastle]

Bringing this back from the dead.

With this stupid quarantine stuff going on I'm working from home, with working from home , I'm working in my workshop, and with that I started pulling out all the projects I failed to finish 1, 2 or 3 years ago. Top of the list was the No.4 in .223 because all I had to do (all? HA!) was to get a magazine fitted so that I could add eject and feed to the pointing and shooting bit of the project.

Shout out to Craig Whitsey in the UK who pointed me at a 4 round 223 magazine from an old hunting rifle that fits inside the 303 magazine shell nicely and I now have a .223 No.4 that fires , extracts, ejects and feeds. I will post a quick video and more information when I get it out to shoot again. Having said that - the next time Peter Laidler says that something is a pain in the proverbial behind, I will listen to him.

In the meantime - any scope recommendations that look a bit Like a No. 32 that have adjustable magnification?

[303 Gunner]

Would definitely love to see how you managed it. .303 gets rather spendy after a while, here in the States...

[Bruce_in_Oz]

If you are going for an "insert" magazine, two good options are the single-column types from a Tikka 55 or a Remington 788. I have not had a close look at a Savage 340 ".222" mag lately, but it may be an option and like the others, there seem to be "after-market repros" currently available.

Somebody was doing a 308 Win / 7.62 NATO insert setup for No4 mags decades ago. The rest of that rifle conversion was of dubious quality (They also sold a bunch chambered for .243 Win!) but the mag system actually worked. The insert unit had a special extra back-plate that was fixed to the .303 box by a screw through the back of the .303 mag case.

By my reckoning, the most useful mag for such a conversion would be the ten-round nag for a Ruger Min-14. However, it would be advisable to reduce the spring "force" for use in a bolt-action, otherwise the spectre of rounds "popping' out of teh mag early in the feed stroke may drive you to distraction. Compare the mag spring force in a Lee Enfield to an M-14 or L1A1 mag for starters.

For folks in the US, the other other option is the mags made for the AWB era AK types that were SINGLY column, ten round types in both 7.62 x 39 and .223 / 5.56. they should easily be narrow enough to do the job. (Dint forget the spring issue).