In theory, can a sporterized Lee-Enfield shoot accurately?

My Parker Hale Custom with a 2.5-10x40 Bausch & Lomb Balavar tosses Winchester 180grain PowerPoints well.

The gentleman I got it from saw the target, and I offered to sell it back to him. Lucky for me, he politely declined & only asked that if I ever decide to sell it, he gets 'right of first refusal', to which I agreed.

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Jay
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I have a #5 that was my fathers that was sported with a fancy comb stock and to TO1 scope mount. with WW 180s if you do your part it will shoot clover leaf at 100 it is an amazing rifle. dad used it for everything from coyoties to moose.
 
I once watched a guy expend a full 10 rd mag from a No 4 on a running deer as it popped out of the treeline and passed about 25 yds from him. He got about half the mag away as the deer approached and the rest as it disappeared from view. He didn't cut a hair, but his rate of fire was highly impressive.:sok2 They called him "deadeye" after that performance.;)
 
purple said:
I once watched a guy expend a full 10 rd mag from a No 4 on a running deer as it popped out of the treeline and passed about 25 yds from him. He got about half the mag away as the deer approached and the rest as it disappeared from view. He didn't cut a hair, but his rate of fire was highly impressive.:sok2 They called him "deadeye" after that performance.;)
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Ole Mad Minute Mike, that would be funny to see. I watched a friend shoot and miss 6-7 grouse over the course of a day with a .22 and a 12g, we still have a good laugh at it. He did much better this year thankfully, he was starting to call it the grouse curse lol.
 
smellie said:
Remember that even in the worst of the wartime rush, they were not let out of the factory if they grouped over 3 inches at 100. Generally, 2 inches was regarded as acceptable.

The 303 round was held to the FLATbased Mark VII bullet for many reasons, correct obturation being one of them. That is also why the (fairly quick) Cordite powder remained standard in British ammunition. Problems do arise with boat-tailed bullets because Enfield rifling is odd numbered and WIDE and DEEP. Stick with flatbase slugs. I load mine with Sierra Pro-Hunter 180s and have no troubles.

On a cut-down stock, a rest-point for the barrel will do a lot of good. It does not need to be 6 pounds, rather, just enough to keep the barrel from whipping around. You can even make one up with a couple wraps of masking tape.

TRIGGER CONTROL is a MUST. Use both steps: take up the slack, then SQUEEZE. Do not PULL, do not JERK, just SQUEEZE by tightening your hand. If the Trigger is adjusted correctly, that is all you will have to do.

SCREWS TIGHT but do not overtighten the Magpie Screw on a Number 1; use it to adjust vertical zero.

Slightly MILD loads are best. Try for 2250 ft/sec with a 180. I get that with just 37 grains of 4895. That is the actual by-test most accurate velocity for the 303 round with a 180 slug.

Enjoy!
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smellie, with all due respect to the guru, the ammo used at the proving ranges was REGULATED and not the usual run of the mill fodder handed out in the field, which was held to 4 moa parameters.

I know this from my aunt, who used to work at the Longbranch facility. One of her jobs was to deliver crates of ammo to the folks doing the testing. She never fired any of the rifles, was never offered the chance and the paperwork involved taking the ammo delivered from the production facility was overwhelming to the point she asked for a different job. She ended up carrying stock pieces to the assembly tables and later polishing the burrs from newly formed 25mm cases.

The one thing she was responsible for was to make sure every round she delivered was verifiably delivered. She opened the crates and counted each box in the crate. She told me she could tell by feel of weight if the boxes were full or not. She did find the odd "20 round WHITE BOX with a missing cartridge" Ammunition of any type sold for a premium on the black market back then so the BUREAUCRATS made it difficult to steal. Unsuccessfully from what I heard.

The WHITE BOXES ALL HAD RED STRIPES AND WERE ALL overstamped REGULATED

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louthepou said:
I just sold a factory PH sporter (built on a No1Mk3 action) I had for a number of years to CGN's "Jay". He tried her out today with factory Winchester SuperX ammo, 180gr. He managed to cloverleaf a three shot group at 100 yards. So....... Some of these old gals sure can shoot. (and so can Jay apparently).

(and before everyone shouts "BS" or "yeah right", he has witnesses and the target to support my wild and crazy claim!!!!)
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Winchester seems to have figured out what works best for 303 BRITISH chambered rifles. They have thicker rims for one thing, maybe that holds them straighter in the chamber???? I had a case of their old Gray Box 175 grain SP ammo that shot very well out of almost every rifle it went through, AS LONG AS THE RIFLE'S BORE WAS VG-EXC.

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