Where have the good No5 rifle all gone?

[mrclark303]

It was a nice rifle when I had sold it to you, but now it is perfect! You did an excellent job!

Cheers Georg, looking forward to shooting her next week, I made some small adjustments to the bedding, so some zeroing in is on the cards no doubt mate...

[mrclark303]

Morning all,

Proper shoot yesterday, all very tight to start with with some very fine scratches in the spent brass, after 20 rounds these started to fade and things loosened up a bit.

She shoots like a brand new rifle, even the spring resistance on the bolt feels stiffer than my other Enfields.

Printing 3" nice round groups at 100yds, just fine by me.

80 rounds down range yesterday before moving to the comparatively gentle shove of my L1A1.

Boy do the Carbines heat up fast!

Very happy indeed with the No5, just a blast to shoot (both figuratively and literally)!

[browningautorifle]

Printing 3" nice round groups at 100yds

Pretty acceptable.

[GeeRam]

Proper shoot yesterday, all very tight to start with with some very fine scratches in the spent brass, after 20 rounds these started to fade and things loosened up a bit.

She shoots like a brand new rifle, even the spring resistance on the bolt feels stiffer than my other Enfields.

Printing 3" nice round groups at 100yds, just fine by me.

Sounds lovely, and 3" at 100 is

80 rounds down range yesterday before moving to the comparatively gentle shove of my L1A1.

Boy do the Carbines heat up fast!

Very happy indeed with the No5, just a blast to shoot (both figuratively and literally)!

Oh yeah, they blast just fine

My Dad always mentioned the heat issue, compounded in his case as his time spent with a No.5 was his 12 month tour in the heat of the Middle East in Palestine in 1946/7.

[manykids]

I realize this is an old thread but I felt I needed to say something anyway. I picked up a Mk5 several months ago here in Montana for $600.00, all serial #s matching, even the # painted on the buttstock in fading blue paint. Strong rifling and not a speck of rust anywhere. Having to retune the magazine lips to get it to feed reliably with my handloads but making progress...is the reason I joined this forum. Ordered a Mk4 magazine a couple days ago from Numrich hoping to luck out and get one that might miraculously work well without any tuning... This carbine rested in my safe til just last week unfired what with my other projects taking up my time.

[GeeRam]

Ordered a Mk4 magazine a couple days ago from Numrich hoping to luck out and get one that might miraculously work well without any tuning...

You'll be amazingly lucky if that happens.

Is the mag that came with the No.5 number matching?
If so, I would just keep tuning it until it feeds well, rather than fitting another one, that will also almost certainly need fine tuning as well.

[manykids]

Yes, matching number, I realize the mag is a longshot but worth taking a chance to me.

[Daan Kemp]

I remember a thread about fixing non-working LE mags, or the Knowledge Library, or somewhere on the forum. Have you done a search here?

[manykids]

I've been searching but so far my search words haven't pulled up anything relevant, I'm slowly working my way through the LE topic threads and have gotten as far as this thread so far. It's been slow going, it's also why I made my original post in the hopes of hearing any feedback, which I appreciate.

[Gil Boyd]

They were, and still are a beautiful light weight rifle in comparison, and just what the jungle ordered.
The days of picking these up cheap have long gone, as ALL prices of rifles start to climb, probably through fear of what is to come next........who knows, but something has suddenly prompted a revival in gun ownership in the US/Canada and the UK