7.62mm DCRA LE No4 conversion thread

DCRA#221 went out today to the range to see how it would shoot. I was pleasantly surprised at how accurate it actually is. 10 rounds, loading and ejecting with the awesome Sterling magazine functioning perfectly with no hangups. I really like those Parker Hale sights. Small aperture, but very precise. Someone put a lot of work into these rifles to get them shooting well.
 
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Here is one I have had for a while , I thought I had posted pictures already , maybe not .
#1520 the bolt has a different number than barrel and receiver
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Just a side note to all of this, do people get together and fire these guns?? It seems to me, black rifles have taken over.
I have these rifles in 303 and 308. Some with 308 enfield magazines or sterling magazines. I have a no4 308 sniper in
the box. You just don't see this stuff at gun shows anymore. They have faded away like the pcmr winchester 30 30
 
can14 said:
Just a side note to all of this, do people get together and fire these guns?? It seems to me, black rifles have taken over.
I have these rifles in 303 and 308. Some with 308 enfield magazines or sterling magazines. I have a no4 308 sniper in
the box. You just don't see this stuff at gun shows anymore. They have faded away like the pcmr winchester 30 30
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Haven't seen any at the ranges but saw 2-3 at the Calgary gunshow, so they are still kicking :)
 
#1199 /Long Branch' 43 has been undergoing reconstructive surgery. A previous owner had milled off the back top of the receiver to force the fitting of a Parkerhale PH5A sight. My gunsmith has rebuilt the missing receiver steel with TIG welding then worked it back to it's original conformation so that regular #4 sights and scope mounts can be fitted. This is what it looks like now (I still need to reassemble it):







 
This may have been discussed here or in other forums, so my apologies if that's the case. When I acquired my DCRA rifle and took it to the range, I was extremely impressed with its accuracy but not thrilled about having to feed each round in manually. So I looked for a Sterling mag for some time without any luck and thought even if I found one, they are outrageously priced and they're kind of ugly (in my opinion). Or maybe it's that they ruin the classic lines of the Enfield. Nevertheless, eventually I found an Ishapore 2A1 mag, so I picked it up for a reasonable price. With some adjustments to the feed lips it fed just fine. But those mags are really ugly. So I got the idea that maybe the spring and follower from the Ishapore 2A1 mag would fit into the .303 mag of the DCRA rifle...




















 
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