Enfield butt plate question

[sasktraveler]

Are the No.4 and No. 5 butt plates interchangeable ?

 

[tiriaq]

No. 4 and No. 5 buttplates are entirely different.

 

[points]

You would have to change the butts.

 

[Snider shooter]

No. Butt stock is different on the #5. Stocks will swap out.

 

[Mike Webb]

No.5 has the rubber recoil pad. Really hard and small area. Likely increases recoil if the truth were known.

 

[enefgee]

No.5 has the rubber recoil pad. Really hard and small area. Likely increases recoil if the truth were known.

Actually, they weren't hard when they were new. I managed to get a NOS, properly stored No5 pad for my still greasy No 5 from Liberty Tree, before they decided not to ship here. It's actually quite soft.

 

[woodchopper]

the rubber but pad was not for shooter comfort, the No5 was a shortened and lightened rifle for commandoes and airborne forces, the rubber pads were to protect the aircraft.

as above not interchangeable between the No4 and No5

 

[QM 8687]

I've handled several thousand, and sometimes your #4 butt can use a MK III buttplate and vise versa. On the buttstock of #1 Mk III the top tip or tang inlet is narrow and ends in a rounded point. The #4 is more wider here and rounder. Also any pile of used buttplates are often a plie of many different lengths and widths, modified over time.

 

[koldt]

No.5 has the rubber recoil pad. Really hard and small area. Likely increases recoil if the truth were known.

Calling it a recoil pad is generous. Frozen puck is a better description.
Whoever designed the thing ought to spend the rest of eternity shooting the #5 .