enfield with one rifling is this possible?

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I was speaking with a friend yesterday and the subject of 303's came up and he mentioned he had a longbranch dated back to ww2. We began talking about rifling and he said something interesting he said when he look down the barrel this rifle only appears to have one rifling cut into the barrel. I know that durring world war 2 there were several shipments of both savages and longbranch rifles that had only two riflings and the rest were mostly five groove. Yet i think i heard that a there had been tests with 3 rifling barrels, so i am wondering did the armours at longbranch ever try cutting just one rifling or could this rifle simply have made it throught inspection and get shippend out to england with only the one rifling. Tomorrow is my day off so i am gonna go and check this out i let you guys know what i find.

Jerry
 
2 was the least amount approved that I know of. Who knows, maybe the broaching tool had just broken.
Laidler mentions in his sten book that he observed a sten barrel which had gone through service life that had no grooves. You'd think someone at some time would have looked down the bore.
 
Claven2 said:
it's probably just 2 groove. Some people at first glance think it's 1 groove.
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I'de think so too.

there were 2,3,4,5, and later a few 6 groove barrels.

I've never seen a 3 because they were made with the barrel pressfit into a knox then threaded into the reciever.

It was decided that that was not really save so armourers were ordered to replace them.

Strangely enough there was a batch of SKS that had press fit barrels, and they had problems.
 
Most wartime made rifles had 2 groove rifling. Made the manufacturing faster with no reduction in accuracy.
"...at first glance..." Yep. It's an optical illusion. Looking right at the inside of the muzzle will usually show you exactly how many grooves there are.
 
Anything can happen and did during the war years. I have a Lithgow beautifully parkerised ,1942 ,yet keyholes targets. Rifleing looks good at a quick glance. But .307 guage goes through like greased lightning!
Maybe expermental 8mm compliments of the Turks, Who knowns?
 
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