45 acp enfields

Baal said:
Found the ad, thanks.

I guess my concern now is the lack of a front sight on the barrel. What's involved installing a lee enfield style front sight? Any idea what that would cost? Is this something you can do?
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I can add a front base, the cost would not be much, see above post.

Cheers
 
Nathan231 said:
VERY neat idea! I am impressed. I thought 45-70 Enfields were bad ass. This takes it to a whole new level. Wanna try one in .44 Rem Mag for me?
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Sticking with the 45 acp for now but who knows. ;)

I'm working with a stock maker on a laminated miltary wood design to use with these short little carbines. Should make a nifty little rifle. Gonna go all out and order some parking chemicals instead of my usual home brew I use.
 
Sounds very interesting but how hard is it to fit the components and get it to feed and eject properly.

How many hours do you estimate it would take fit the kit to get it shootable, 40 to 100 hours?

Is this kit similar to what Numrich Arms was selling about 10 years ago.;
 
enfield303t said:
Sounds very interesting but how hard is it to fit the components and get it to feed and eject properly.

How many hours do you estimate it would take fit the kit to get it shootable, 40 to 100 hours?

Is this kit similar to what Numrich Arms was selling about 10 years ago.;
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Everything is pretty much drop in, small mod to make to the ejector, extractor and bolt heads...2-3 hours to get one shooting, more to pretty it up obviously. That is assuming you have your bbl removed already
 
If you are having trouble releasing the barrel

Chuck the barrel in the lathe run a parting tool into the intersection of the barrel and reciever. cut untill you hit the thread major diameter stay off the reciever. barrel should spin right out now.
 
mg4201 said:
Chuck the barrel in the lathe run a parting tool into the intersection of the barrel and reciever. cut untill you hit the thread major diameter stay off the reciever. barrel should spin right out now.
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It should, but sometimes they'll fool you.
When I do this on the lathe, I grab the barrel in the chuck, and support the receiver using a mandrel running on the tail center.
You can achieve the same relief cut with a hacksaw.
This doesn't necessarily ruin the .303 barrel for further use - the shoulder can be cut back, and a breeching washer installed.

A .303 barrel can be used for 7.62x39 experiments.
No reaon why it could not be used for 7.62x25, either.
If the bubba'd rifle being converted to .45 has a decent bore, no reason not to save it for future use.
 
I know I'm late but finally I clued in and looked at this thread. This is screaming "De Lisle Commando Carbine". I know the final look wouldn't be exactly the same but... wouldn't it be reasonably, fashionably similar?
 
If you used a SMLE, removed the charger bridge, cut the forend flush with the front of the receiver, and installed an eccentric tubular handguard, it would resemble one.
To make a reproduction, you would have to bore out the front of the boltway in the receiver, extend the barrel back in to reach the shortened bolt, and make a magazine bracket that would position the modified Colt magazine back at the trigger guard.
Went to the search function. Entered user name "Mudpuppy", topic "Delisle", clicked on "posts", set time for 36 months. Found a series of photos of Mudpuppy's outstanding Delisle reproductions.
 
No.
There is a practical reason why they would not be. Because of the way these barrels are fitted and headspaced, they are not indexed.
A No. 4 front sight base could certainly be adapted and installed, though.
 
This is what originally got me interested in the 45 acp carbine, unfortunately no easy way to use a mag. Built on a savage action with tech sight front sights and willams peep in the rear. I might make a couple of these up as well.


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RR said:
Mock up with 7/8" barrel
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Looks good, I was doing a bit of mockup myself last night, and a 14" barrel will be just about right. :D

any shorter and it will not look right :D


but now I need to decide what project to work on first :D and which receiver to use for the project.

I may need to buy another bubba'ed enfield.



and thanks for the post correcting me about the .45 GAP brass.

I cut down some brass last night and measured the thickness, NATO 7.62 was way too thick but some Federal .243 I had was only .015" thats only .005" too thick :D but then thats at 1.3", so significantly longer then .45ACP ;)
 
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