Bodged No.5 Carbine (With Photo Added)

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My son-inlaw brought over a rifle for me to look at. It has the outward appearance of a No.5 but the rear stock is the generic Enfield type. The receiver is marked No.4Mk.1 ROF(F) 8/44. Just to be sure I removed the hand guard and there weren't any cuts. My question is were there any commercial companies that bodged-up No.5s for sale to the public or was someone being creative in their basement?

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Yes, at least one company did some, I think they were called Santa Fe. The search function should turn up more detail on that if I'm right.
 
International brought in a bunch of them during the seventies. No 5s were hard come by for some reason and demand for them was high. There were also some Aussie No1s that were brought in and called No6 Lee Enfields. Other than some experimental rifles, I don't think the Aussie's ever made up large quantities for issue.
 
Also the Infamous Cyprus No.5 Jungle Carbines, made up by a couple of Gunsmiths in Australia. Gibbs/Navy Arms in the USA made up several variation based on the No.1 and No.4 rifles.
 
They were for sale much more recently in Canada, wasn't it SIR or Wholesale Sports or one of the mail order outfits out west selling them?

I'm talking in the last 2 years...maybe they still have them?
 
For FishDoc, the NoIII is used for scale. Stock of the faux carbine has a plugged Ishy screw hole.

FishDoc said:
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That is wierd. SIR was selling no.4's that had been cut down to carbine length as recently as 2008, but your example is obviously still full lenght. The SIR no.4's were completely refinished and about $200 IIRC.
 
That is a very rare Royal Marine Commando Carbine !

No, not really just a bunch of parts mashed together. Rumour has it, that is was done by an oufit in Ohio or something.
 
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Sort of looks like a trials rifle of some sort.
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No they were just a cheap way of increasing the market price for a sporterized no4.

I had one of these, the "flash hider" is an alloy casting which is slip fit, then set screwed over the bayonet lugs.

The rear handguard and mid band are sanded out and moved back @3/4" so that they didn't need to buy a new handguard.

The barrel was chopped@1/4" past the lug.

On the 2 I pulled apart, the British commercial proof Marks in the end of the barrel was sawn thru to remove that part of the barrel.
 
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