Sporterized Enfield help please

[cowbelly]

I have this sporterized Enfield and my questions are is this a commercial gun or someone’s project ? 1916 STLE lll . It has a 21 1/4” barrel.
Nice stock, pistol grip cap, and a homemade peep sight which works rather well. Excellent bore. Can someone enlighten me ?

 

[Weiss]

Nice rifle. Not a factory made rifle; someone did a very good job though.

 

[cowbelly]

Thanks for your input.

 

[Snider shooter]

Haven’t seen one like it before so going with it’s someone’s project. One of the better ones.

 

[cowbelly]

Thanks

 

[bros]

A peep sight welded to the cocking piece, that's one of the most bizarre things I've seen yet on a sporterized Lee Enfield yet. I can't imagine the repeatability of the peep being in the same place each time the action is worked!
I thought I had seen it all......apparently not!

 

[points]

You have got to be kidding on the sight welded to the cocking piece. A most novel arrangement.

 

[Heliian]

You have got to be kidding on the sight welded to the cocking piece. A most novel arrangement.

Ruined.

 

[Potashminer]

A hundred years ago, Rigby had an aperture sight on the rear of the bolt. Parker Hale made a sight for that - I am currently trying to fit that PH cocking piece sight into a random Mauser 98 action that is set up as a 7x57 at the moment. I read, in old days, that the rifle trigger sear and the cocking piece face were bevelled so that the sight was in exactly the same place (left / right) for each shot. I have also seen pictures of screws or bolts drill and tapped into the tang of Mauser 98 - apparently then worked down to eliminate or reduce "up/down" movement of that cocking piece.

Is probably not "cool" nor "modern" looking - but it should work fine.

Should be a picture below of that Parker Hale rear aperture sight, welded or brazed to the rear end of a Mauser 98 cocking piece.

 

[Dosing]

A hundred years ago, Rigby had an aperture sight on the rear of the bolt. Parker Hale made a sight for that - I am currently trying to fit that PH cocking piece sight into a random Mauser 98 action that is set up as a 7x57 at the moment. I read, in old days, that the rifle trigger sear and the cocking piece face were bevelled so that the sight was in exactly the same place (left / right) for each shot. I have also seen pictures of screws or bolts drill and tapped into the tang of Mauser 98 - apparently then worked down to eliminate or reduce "up/down" movement of that cocking piece.

Is probably not "cool" nor "modern" looking - but it should work fine.

Should be a picture below of that Parker Hale rear aperture sight, welded or brazed to the rear end of a Mauser 98 cocking piece.

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Yup, also on steyrs and others. Perfectly repeatable for a 100yd deer shot.

 

[Raton57]

My experience with a 303 if the shots are within a foot of each other you have a shooter

 

[LawrenceN]

My experience with a 303 if the shots are within a foot of each other you have a shooter

At what range? With my handloads at 100 m I'll have 5 shots within 1-1/2". I don't consider 12" of error a "shooter", just a waste of ammunition.

 

[Canuckguns]

Wow thats a sporter done real well! nice rifle

 

[Butcherbill]

My experience with a 303 if the shots are within a foot of each other you have a shooter

I’ve got a couple that shoot well with certain ammo, one with a scope will shoot 1”-1.25” 5 shot groups at 100m with fed 180gr blue box. Hunted with it for a few years.

The other originally shot a buckshot looking pattern, after I worked through some bedding issues it shoots this with 150gr S&B sp. The second is handloads with .311 campro sp over blc-2, 100m with the issued micrometer sight.

 

[OkayShooter]

My experience with a 303 if the shots are within a foot of each other you have a shooter

A foot? Something wrong with the shooter.

I never had one shoot more than 6 inches.

 

[gaff]

nothing wrong with that sight if it works for you. the style of the wood leads me to think it was done in the 1960s time frame.

 

[fat tony]

Nice lines on the gun.

 

[Raton57]

A foot? Something wrong with the shooter.

I never had one shoot more than 6 inches.

I had the the top shooter in Alberta at the time try and he couldn't get two shots close to each other either. But for a 15 buck rifle was worth it .

 

[OkayShooter]

I had the the top shooter in Alberta at the time try and he couldn't get two shots close to each other either. But for a 15 buck rifle was worth it .

Doesn't mean they all like that.

 

[Snider shooter]

I have rebuilt over 10 Lee Enfields and my worst one shoots 2” consistently at 100 m. If the barrel is shot out don’t expect much. I bought one for parts due to it grouping about 18” at 50 m. A 0.312 bullet would drop through the bore easily.
A properly set up LE should shoot 2” or under with proper loads.