Hunting with Lee Enfield

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I've got a sporter No1 mk3 and i've noticed that the minimum rear sight setting is 200 yards...so how would one use this rifle for hunting at around 100 yards or less..without mounting a scope.

anyone have experience with this?

thanks :D
 
use the 200 yard sight on a target at 100 yards and see where your point of impact is. If you shoot 2" high, just remember to aim 2" low, although thats pretty precise with open sights at 100 yards
 
A buddy of mine has the same gun, and the same issue. It's not exactly a needle threading gun to begin with. (hence the 10 round clip ;) ) But, I assume you're hunting deer or bigger, so you've got plenty of kill zone to work with. Up or down 2 inches shouldn't matter. Or, as my buddy says, "the deer will be so honoured to be taken with such a rich piece of WWII history that they'll lay down their lives at your feet before you need to pull the trigger."
 
First, as suggested, shoot on paper at 100 yards with your hunting ammunition and see where the point of impact is. You might find that it is OK (such as 2-3 inches high at 100). This will give you a trajectory good out to 200 yards without doing any fancy holding over and under.
If it is much different then consider getting a different front sight, depending on whether or not it is high or low.
 
Have you tied it at the range? Buddy of mine hunts with a full stocked no#4. I think he wishes to storm the beaches again. A 303 packs enough punch to drop everything in North America. Damm, plenty of poachers drop elephants with them in Africa. I can wound a squirrel with a 50 bmg i wanted.
 
303/3006/8mm have killed more animals and people than any other calibres. I have used all three on various shoots, and most everything drops if I hit it! The wonders of surplus shells.
Now, its 308 and 223. 308 is becoming the new killer on the "block", just because of the military surplus shells we used to get.
 
can14 said:
303/3006/8mm have killed more animals and people than any other calibres. I have used all three on various shoots, and most everything drops if I hit it! The wonders of surplus shells.
Now, its 308 and 223. 308 is becoming the new killer on the "block", just because of the military surplus shells we used to get.
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And 30/30. :D
 
most gun stores should have a bunch of front sight blades for the enfield in their old parts bin, get it changed out to something taller and it will shoot spot on at 100 yards

my lithgow sporter is only 2 inches high at 100 so i didn't bother to change the blade, but my swede mauser was 6 inches high at 100 so i got one that was a mm higher and its spot on at 100
 
If you are hunting, that 200yd setting is probably just fine. It is pretty typical to have the POI about 3" high at 100yds, which will put you around 1" high to spot on at 200yds and around 4"-5" low at 300yds. A 3" deviation from line of sight on a deer is nothing (can you realistically shoot less than 3" groups at 100yds with iron sights in field positions?) and zeroing like this allows you to hold dead on the animal all the way out to about 250yds without worrying about your holdover.

Mark
 
Took mine hunting (for a change of pace) couple years ago and shot a 6pt buck using Fed brass, 150 Hornady Spirepoint Boattail. It died!
 
kodiakjack said:
A buddy of mine has the same gun, and the same issue. It's not exactly a needle threading gun to begin with. (hence the 10 round clip ;) ) But, I assume you're hunting deer or bigger, so you've got plenty of kill zone to work with. Up or down 2 inches shouldn't matter. Or, as my buddy says, "the deer will be so honoured to be taken with such a rich piece of WWII history that they'll lay down their lives at your feet before you need to pull the trigger."
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BAH HAH HAH, that is way too funny
 
"...most gun stores should have..." Not any more. The days of most guns shops having lots of Lee-Enfield parts are long gone.
"...got a sporter No1 mk3..." Check the headspace first. Then try a box of as many brands of ammo as you can to find the brand that shoots best out of your rifle. Group only. Then sight in using the 200 yard sight. A change of bullet weight can also change the POI, but you have to shoot it.
Remington 180 grain SP's, for example, sighted in at 100 will be 5.9" low at 200. They're a bit heavy for deer, but will do nicely. Dandy for moose.
 
i decided to do all my hunting this year with my no1mk3 i got this gun a couple of years back it was a bubbad 303 in rough shape the stock was almost black with water damage and the metal was rust from one end to the other but with some elbow grease and tlc got the stock sanded and shaped to my liking straight grip shnabel forearm with rosewood cap wite birch and bloodwood spacer added a cheek peice and some ivory and blood wood inlay
nocked the barrel down to 23 inches and reblued customized a b square mount and mounted a scope 150gr sie pro hunter handload and firs load at the range put up a 1 inch group 5 shots called it good for hunting firs week of the season took a white tail at 300 yard and that deer was just as dead as any shot with a 30-06 it maybe whent 10 yard was very impressed with what that old 1917 lithgow did
 
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