Lee-Enfield user thread

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

user thread

You make us sound like drug addicts or something... oh wait, it kinda is like that - guilty here. No. 4's is good!

 

[Shade00]

I've been thinking about picking up one of the Ishapore 2As. Aside from being fun to shoot (which I assume it will be), am I correct that it would make a good whitetail rifle?

 

[alemonkey]

I think it would make a great deer rifle.

 

[Detachment Charlie]

.308 Ishapore

Born in 1956, Ishapore Enfield in .308. I love this rifle. With a 17 1/2" bayonet mounted, it's fearsome, dude...and gives +/- 3" @100 yds.

 

[Fred West]

Fred - how do you like that AIA rifle? I really wish they would import here into the U.S. A new production #4 in 7.62 Nato would be very tempting...

Alemonkey,

I love it. It out performs me anyway.
Don't know if you know or not, AIA also do a #5 in 7.62x39 using an AK47 mag I think.

Trouble is, surplus 7.62 ammo has dried up in UK. I guess I'll have to start feeding it 308 pretty soon. Shouldn't be a problem if I keep the loads on the light side. I can never remember which way round is OK. 308 in a 7.62 or vice versa.

I'm surprised this is still not available in US. Here's a 3 year old thread in The High Road discussing this. http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-131935.html

Best of luck. Hope you find one soon.

Fred.

 

[Quiet]

(top) No4Mk1 sporterized (not by me)
(bottom) No4Mk1 Sterling 7.62x51mm conversion

 

[lionking]

lol! poor limeyfellow,he is outside kicking a rock and saying $#*% lol.

the guy I bought my Venezuelan mauser from has one of those in a original wooden crate.He had some very cool guns.He also had a minty Mauser 1871? in some weird 11mm caliber.He trusted me enough after shooting the s*** for a while to show me them.


http://www.thehighroad.org/showpost.php?p=4819603&postcount=46

 

[lionking]

my two with the days results last time I fired them.1943 Longbranch and NO4 MK2 I bought ten years ago in the wrap gooed with cosmoline.

 

[Jeff F]

I think it would make a great deer rifle.

Sure do! Works well for Elk to. I want to take a moose with one in the future. Killed a coyote that was way way out there a couple of months ago. That is the .303, the 7.62 would do just as well.

 

[lee n. field]

With a screen name of lee n. field you haven't shot it in years?

Alas, yes. I'm mostly a handgun shooter. I'll be experimenting with some handcast bullets, and hope to have it out again soon.

The Enfield was my first centerfire rifle, for the princely sum of $75, about 10 years ago. Also the first thing I handloaded for.

 

[Eleven Mike]

In the picture below, there is a hole drilled through the receiver, in or near the chamber. Also, there is a screw in the receiver, near the stripper clip guide. A lot of Enfields seem to have those.

What gives?

 

[Mk VII]

It's a gas escape.
The #3BA screw kicks out the empty case if the extractor spring and receiver contours didn't do it all by themselves

 

[Eleven Mike]

Thanks.