Lee Enfield Compact Truck Carbine

Ganderite

Ganderite

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I have a number of #4 and #1 Sports I bought over the years because I just could not resist a $150 rifle.

So no fine milsurps will be desecrated, OK?

The carbine I have in mind will be made out of a short 308 target rifle barrel (18"), and be chambered in 308 British. That way the standard 303 brass will feed and eject just fine from a standard magazine.

I have a folding stock that came of a VZ858. I am wondering if that could be made to bolt onto the wrist of L.E.

Anyone ever seen such a thing? Or, anyone with Photoshop skills to give me a preview?
 
Special Interest Arms/Pyramid Arms used to make both folding stock and AR15 stock adapters for LeeEnfield rifles but they do not currently list them.
 
"...if that could be made to..." Anything can be done with enough time and money. Trick is having lots of both. I seriously doubt you'll get an AK style stock onto any Lee-Enfield. Size difference. Suspect that stock would hurt to shoot with a .303 sized cartridge too.
 
OK, looked at the Boyd's website. They have laminate wood stocks in stock for under $100. I am going to make a pretty carbine. A low mounted scope will keep it simple. Might put a brake on it.

My shoulder still flinchs when I think of the last time I shot my MN M44.
 
louthepou said:
Here's one of the Boyd's "flavors" on a .45acp conversion I worked on for another CGN member:

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Basically my bear gun. Kept the original sporterized stock and installed a new set of open sights. Damned original back sight just doesn't cut it for close in work. ;)

Grizz
 
flying pig said:
Holy cow is that ever nice!!!
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Thanks! But I don't deserve much credit, Boyd's are the ones making these to start with ;) I felt bad sending this rifle to its owner, I wanted to keep it! :D But there's lots of fitting finishing work required. Worth it though.

I've been planning on getting a set for myself... maybe the grey version.
 
Don't know about yours Lou, but the laminate stock I got from Boyd's needs a lot of work. The barrel channel was poorly cut, with about 3/16" height difference in the two passes the bull nose cutter made down the channel.

Considering how many nice finished stocks they make for other rifles, I don't see why they can't produce something decent for the Lee Enfield. Not enough buyers stateside I guess.
 
Ganderite said:
I have a number of #4 and #1 Sports I bought over the years because I just could not resist a $150 rifle.

So no fine milsurps will be desecrated, OK?

The carbine I have in mind will be made out of a short 308 target rifle barrel (18"), and be chambered in 308 British. That way the standard 303 brass will feed and eject just fine from a standard magazine.

I have a folding stock that came of a VZ858. I am wondering if that could be made to bolt onto the wrist of L.E.

Anyone ever seen such a thing? Or, anyone with Photoshop skills to give me a preview?
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As for the chambering, you could leave the 308 chamber alone and use 307 Winchester brass, if you can find some... It is basically a rimmed 308 and will function through a 303 mag. Problem is the brass is quite hard to find. Another option (and probably the best) is to find an Indian 308 enfield mag and mod it slightly to fit a No. 4. I know where there is one for $50.00. P.M. me and I'll tell you if interested. (No, I do not own it)
 
louthepou said:
Here's one of the Boyd's "flavors" on a .45acp conversion I worked on for another CGN member:

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That looks perfect!! The barreled action I have is a medium heavy 308 target barrel. I was planning on cutting it at about 18" to make the weight about right. The military front sight look perfect on there. I assume that is a lee Enfield sight up front?
 
jakester said:
As for the chambering, you could leave the 308 chamber alone and use 307 Winchester brass, if you can find some... It is basically a rimmed 308 and will function through a 303 mag. Problem is the brass is quite hard to find. Another option (and probably the best) is to find an Indian 308 enfield mag and mod it slightly to fit a No. 4. I know where there is one for $50.00. P.M. me and I'll tell you if interested. (No, I do not own it)
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I built one for my son, using a Sterling 308 magazine. This meant the rifle also needed a 308 extractor. Feeding and extracting and ejecting is about 90% of what it would be in 303. My gunsmith has the 308British reamer (303Br with a 308 neck). I made one of these up using a target rifle barrel in a Tanker version. It works well.

The 307 brass is an interesting idea. I have some 357Win brass on hand. I will neck a piece down and play with it. The advantage of that approach is that factory 308 ammo could always be fired, in a pinch.
 
Yes. 307 is rimmed 308. The extractor would not have to be changed, but I doubt it would eject properly. Big issue is that the 303 mag would not work. This is why I prefer 308Brit. The extractor, ejector and mag remain untouched, but I get to use a 308 barrel and 308 bullets. I have lots of both.

Lou's rifle looks nice with the irons. I would use the "L" shaped dual peep, with a new short range hole drilled in it (smaller) with a 5 minute elevation difference in the two. I would zero it at 50 yards with the close range peep.

With the 5 minute elevation peep, it would be zero at 250 yards.
 
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Ganderite said:
That looks perfect!! The barreled action I have is a medium heavy 308 target barrel. I was planning on cutting it at about 18" to make the weight about right. The military front sight look perfect on there. I assume that is a lee Enfield sight up front?
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Indeed, standard No4 front sight sith guard. As RRCo mentioned, the Boyd's forend (and stock) require lots of love... but can look good in the end. One of the things I needed to do was to put a reinforcing brass screw at the rear of the forend (seen in the picture).
 
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