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When you consider that the unevenly lightened body of the No5 was the death sentence of any notion of sustained accuracy for the No5, I'm bound to as BAR if he'll do an impromptu range and accuracy test with it when he's finished.
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09-15-2016 10:50 AM
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I certainly will. The whole thing will be documented...
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SMLE barrel will screw into a No5 action, but extractor slot and sights will be upside down (180 degrees out of synch)...so " No BONO" ( or "bu Hao") depending on your Language.
Yes, a sporter or "Truck gun" is about all it will ever be.
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One year ago today I posted a hopeless case. I finally ended the misery of this carbine and stripped it for parts. The barrel was about perfect and I sold it here in Canada
for $250 CDN shipped. The mag sold sometime earlier. The bolt and parts still exist and await the next gunshow I think. Well, the bolt anyway... I was given a much better example that shall be the shooter I was speaking of.
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Shame. I was looking forward to seeing the result.
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The end result is a guy building a #5 and is thrilled to have what he thought was an unused barrel. I got #250CDN shipped for the barrel that was free, sold the mag already for $25 CDN. Still have a bolt to market too. I had procured all parts except a set of Remington rifle sights and they would have cost $100 CDN so it was sort of a non starter.
The other one that came to me a week later from the same source was ready to run so it became a moot point. Here's the other. Guess we can all agree the FH is gunned. It shoots like a hot damm...
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For a different "style", have a look at the neat little carbines made by BSA etc and sold through the old "Army and Navy" Stores over a century ago.
Crown the barrel properly, install a nice little set of "Express" sights. (Cheaper option may be to fiddle with the rear sight from a BSA Martini Cadet).
Set it into either the classic English "toothpick" fore-end or, just for giggles, a full-length "Manlicher" carbine style with a neat little "Schnabel" tip.
Grab a "sporting" butt from someone else's "restoration" job, and shave the cheekpiece down a bit.
If it is never going to be a restorable / collectible rifle, have fun making the best of someone else's bad job.
Cheers.
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I loved the No5 for its plain unassuming methodology. Like the Sterling they were ideal for jungle warfare at the time in history.
Both now enjoy celebrity status and everyone wants to acquire one.
*My tip would be, that the "live" firing version will rise in value, if the DEAC comparitive price is anything to go by over here in the UK for pre 95.
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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That's a pretty little rifle. I'd have thought it not too difficult to restore back to military trim, if that was the aim. Needs a new FH of course, but apart from that the metal looks good. Then just a case of locating woodwork & furniture. I rarely like sporterised military rifles, because I like 'em as they originally were whilst in service, but this one's sort of..........cute.
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That flash eliminator is just crying out to be doctored just forwards of the foresight block to take a solidly fixed L1A1 flash eliminator
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