I saw this thread and love the Chassis idea, caliber conversions and one post caught my eye. What if another run of Delisle Carbines were made but this time they took shot out No 4 T sniper rifles that were shot out? I had just that done here in the US. It is quiet and fun to shoot.
Enfield No4 Chassis Project
- Thread starter Blastattack
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The two piece stock has many advantages: easy to change the length, easier to source the wood and manufacture and none of the usual cracking and splitting from inadequately-sized recoil lugs or screws coming loose and the action shifting under recoil. A far superior system to the one piece stock in fact. No recoil lug has half the area of the butt socket on L-E. The fitting of the forend is not an issue if the trigger is mounted on the receiver rather than the trigger guard and the barrel is free-floated.
I don't know- about one of every two Lee Enfields I've owned has required significant work on the wood. And accuracy, with the standard barrel on a No. 4, is strongly dependant upon forend fit and bedding. Yes, the recoil is totally taken up by the butt-socket, but the lightweight barreled action flexes when fired and imparts secondary stresses to the forends (which fail commonly). I would personally characterise it as a horrible design that would have been best dropped with the Martini-Henry. There are rumours in old references that suggest the 2-piece Lee Enfield stock design began as a way of cutting costs by using up old Martini blanks.
milsurpo
Or cut the appropriate female thread into the flash hider and drill or cut some appropriate holes or slots into the body of the flash hider between the cone and sight base and turn the void between the end of the barrel and the start of the cone into a crude muzzle brake?
