check out this Martini/lee enfield
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I dug and found this old photo of a rebuild that I did a few years ago. The rifle was a commercal 303 that had a pooched barrel, which I replaced. I did it at the bench with only hand tools. It breeched up on the barrel shoulder and the nocks form clocked correctly. If I remember correctly, I had to shave about 6 thou off of the back face of the barrel and just touch the chamber with a reamer to get it to headspace.
It is a large frame Martini action with a Sht.LE barrel. The forearm is home made. Although it has a bayonet bar on the nosecap, the barrel is too small at the muzzle for the bayonet ring, but it looks the part. I put it on there to provide a mounting for a sling swivel.
I sold it here on the EE when I had a momentary lack of reason. It is one that I regret selling, it was a charm to shoot, well balanced and it was quite acurate.
Now I have strange ideas about building another one. I have a No.4 barrel..........
I dug and found this old photo of a rebuild that I did a few years ago. The rifle was a commercal 303 that had a pooched barrel, which I replaced. I did it at the bench with only hand tools. It breeched up on the barrel shoulder and the nocks form clocked correctly. If I remember correctly, I had to shave about 6 thou off of the back face of the barrel and just touch the chamber with a reamer to get it to headspace.
It is a large frame Martini action with a Sht.LE barrel. The forearm is home made. Although it has a bayonet bar on the nosecap, the barrel is too small at the muzzle for the bayonet ring, but it looks the part. I put it on there to provide a mounting for a sling swivel.
I sold it here on the EE when I had a momentary lack of reason. It is one that I regret selling, it was a charm to shoot, well balanced and it was quite acurate.
Now I have strange ideas about building another one. I have a No.4 barrel..........
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I like it, it has character.
IIRC the .410 musket enfields used a slug load, not shot. I think a lot of British policy in India related to firearms involved restricting their effective use in a mutiny after the big one, hence the ``musket`` shooting a 40 cal (not sure) slug.
For some reason I want one of these single shot .410`s even though they are perhaps the most useless gun in existence.
IIRC the .410 musket enfields used a slug load, not shot. I think a lot of British policy in India related to firearms involved restricting their effective use in a mutiny after the big one, hence the ``musket`` shooting a 40 cal (not sure) slug.
For some reason I want one of these single shot .410`s even though they are perhaps the most useless gun in existence.
Bingo, that's quite similar to the one that I have! My wood sucks & it has a shorter 19" bbl with aftermarket sights, but even the nosecap is the same.
And they are a marvelous little gun, I concur. Neat parlor trick is to drop the lever and just reach up and pluck the ejected empty out of the air and drop it into a shirt pocket.
Ultimate truck gun IMO.
Ya, mine used to go 'poink' on ejection and the empty case would fly and disappear somewhere behind me to my right.
