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Dolk that is a very nice one. I have 2 Enfields but I am currently looking at a nice jungle carbine. if I buy it then I'll need a No.5 stock as this one has been modified. The receiver, barrel, sights and all metal is real nice. I verified the lightening cuts too.
bunkysdad wrote:Dolk that is a very nice one. I have 2 Enfields but I am currently looking at a nice jungle carbine. if I buy it then I'll need a No.5 stock as this one has been modified. The receiver, barrel, sights and all metal is real nice. I verified the lightening cuts too.
Well, if you get there, I know someone who might have a rear stock for one. ;)
I find out tonight, but the forestock can be made from a standard rifle. The armorers used to do that if they got damaged in the field. Many NO.5 have NO.4 forestocks and no one knows because after they are cut down, you can't tell (if done right).
Riiiiiiiiiiiight, nothing at all to do with it, or the rack or two of other striped stock rifles you have stashed away
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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Great furniture on that rifle and a great presentation! You are right about the actions...the British knew how to make a combat rifle, thats for sure.
Say, does anyone know the history behind the grooves that are sometimes cut into the upper rear hand guard on the No4 rifles? I have a Savage No4 Mk1* with grooves cut into the hand guard but I noticed that this Lee-Enfield pictured does not have any. Sometimes I see the grooves on rifles and sometimes I do not. Was this something specific to the Savage Arms rifles or is this just a random occurance with the No 4's? I cant imagine it was random and I'm thinking it must be specific to a particular factory.
The grooved handguards were found on the early No 4's and a lot on the Savages . The grooved handguards went the way of expediting production as did the sights, sight guards and rifling. No specific manufacturer did the handguards and some got mixed when they went through referb.