No8 Mk1 aand No9 Mk1 Trainers

[andya1thomas]

I got my No8 from Highwood Classic arms and I love it. he has one for sale at the moment and I would also check out Peter Starley at Black Powder I think he has at least one in stock.
It is difficult to find a good un-molested one but these guys are very helpfull although Im not sure if they get involved with exporting.

Price wise anywhere between £700 - £1300 depending greatly on condition. The one I got looked like it had just rolled off the production line and shoots as good as it looks.

I need a PH5D for mine but when they come up on evilbay they go for silly money.

Happy Hunting Campers

[Colonel Enfield]

We must be luckier in Victoria in the Military Rifle Club I belong to there are 5 in private ownership and 4 club rifles 9 all up so they do exist in Aus.

I'm glad to hear there's a few down your way! They're a fascinating rifle.

[browningautorifle]

How commonly encountered are the No. 8s "in the wild"?

I've had two personally...

[Peter Laidler]

Remembering with horror my failed herculean efforts to learn the trigger mechanism of the No8 by heart AND go to the front of the class and spout my sheer half learned garbage to those other apprentices who could hardly stifle their shreiks of laughter, I can only guess at the state of some of the 'fixes' to the trigger and how they are operating with the variables that the trigger mechanism catered for. As for how some of the amateurs will be coping with the various: SCREW, locking pull off, SCREW setting pull off, the SCREW stop trigger, the lock nut and the cradle stop pin............... Best not think about it!

[Brian Dick]

I'm the importer who petitioned the BATF Firearms Technology Branch to add the No.8Mk.1 to the Curio and Relics list so they could be imported to the USA back in the late 1990's. I had one large shipment of 20 or so afterwards and some dribs and drabs later. I went through them to get the standard, (if you could call it that!), two stage trigger pull. Like Peter, I spent a bit of time scratching my head while adjusting them. Later on, thanks to Peter, I managed to obtain a couple of the original user handbooks with permission to reprint them. Those little booklets have been helpful to many No.8 owners including myself because they do detail how to adjust or change it over from two stage to single stage.