No5 Survey

[BigBadDog]

I have fairly recently become the proud owner of a Fazakerley No5, it took a while as they do not seem to come up on the market very often and when they do they seem to be pretty expensive, in the UK anyway.

Since owning said rifle I have done a considerable amount of research. I have found that whilst there is masses on the MK 3/3* and plenty on the No4 ‘s there is relatively little about the No5’s, this is understandable considering the small manufacturing run and the very short service life.

In order to try to gain a better insight and to assist present and future scholars I am conducting a survey of No5’s. This type survey has been variously conducted on other Lee Enfield derivatives.
Please shout if it has already been done.

I hope to publish the results in a spread sheet format, all the information being published as 'open access' information, free to all, please bear this in mind if you don't want any information freely available to the public at large.

In order to assist with this survey please can you provide me with the following information.

Manufacturer Faz or BSA
Date of manufacture
Date on barrel ‘Y’ or ‘N’
FTR ‘Y’ or ‘N’
If FTR’d date
Serial number
Serial no on magazine 'Y' or 'N'
Serial no on fore end 'Y' or 'N'
No5 bolt ‘Y’ or ‘N’
Correct 800 yard rear sight
Micrometer or stamped steel rear sight
Export markings ‘Y’ or ‘N’
Bayonet lug 'Y' or 'N'
Steel/alloy flash hider
Butt size
Fore end, (a) rounded metal capped fore end with transverse pin, (b) plain wood, no metalwork, (c) squarer metalwork
Current location e.g UK, USA etc
Anything else that may be of interest

Many thanks for your help and participation in this endeavour.

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