Finished a C No7 rebuild

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What happens when louthepou has some time on his hands? He finally gets to work on his projects, rather than others'! :)

Not a proper C No7; rather, a project from assembled parts over the past several years.

Started when I acquired a new in the grease LongBranch receiver. I figured sooner or later I would find a use.

Ended up with the parts to assemble a .22 bolt, so... that got the whole thing started. Had a few spare, pitted or otherwise unusable 303 barrels, so, picked one, went to Gunco where Jason Spencer bored it out, sleeved it, did the machining for the extractor and all that. That has to be some 5 years ago, if not more. Somewhere along the timeline, I also picked up a nice blonde forend, and eventually found reasonably matching handguards and a buttstock. And an almost-complete rear sight; and a .22 magazine.

So yesterday, for some reason, I was reminded of this long-awaiting project. Having nothing better to do... got to it.

Forend bedding took maybe 2 hours. The rest was rather straight forward.

Shoots good to. Shot some CCI 22 Quiet in my backyard yesterday evening, groups are rather tight; very promising. To think I waited years to do this, and it was not even a full day's worth of work. Hmm. Makes you think, doesn't it.

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Wow... amazing job Lou as usual. We used to have about a dozen C No7s in our local Army Cadet corps and they shot very well too. They never looked as nice as yours though;)
 
you should be proud of your project ....not only the finished looker but the fact that you made it happen after so long ,,,,,i to have completed 2 or so of my adventures from the gun shelf ,,,,so many are never completed i often say ,,,if im alive when i retire i will finish that up ....some times we need to just steal a few hours thats a good thing....don.t put it in the safe keep it out so you can view it for a while like on the dinning room table....explain why to your wife after all it is like a piece of fine furniture it will give you great pleasure till you decide to move on great looking family hand me down
 
Looks great louthepou, in fact I would say it looks incredible! And every now & then, you have to take some time for yourself!
 
Looks great!
I've made some progress on my current .22 project. Started with salvage grade Australian SMLE action parts and barrel, which I sleeved. Parts all from different rifles. Adapted a No. 4 butt. Forend with fittings and handguards took some time to find, but CGNers came through. Pretty much a complete rifle now, although a lot of cosmetic finishing remains.
 
Good job lou! The "real deal" is getting very pricey so this is a great option . Saw a complete CNo7 action listed in EE a couple days ago. Very reasonably priced so it would give you a great start on a CNo7 clone. Might be gone by now. There are parts out there and Bits and Pieces still sell liners.

Ron
 
Good to know.
My No. 7 is a parts gun I bought from Gunco years ago. Built up on one of the receivers, .303 bolt body, etc. No. 7 barrel. Someone didn't like aperture sights, so a Cooey open sight was affixed to the rear handguard with a hose clamp. Wasn't heavy enough, so lead got added to the forend lightening cuts. Price was right. Got those issues straightened out asap. It is a good shooting rifle, as No. 7s tend to be. I feel ill whenever I see the deactivated No. 7 drill rifles the local Cadet Corps has.
 
Tiriaq - if you have a Cno7 barrel - that's the toughest part to find...pick up a CNo7 receiver and swap out the No4.you'll have a much more correct CNo7. Ron
 
My rifle was made up with a No. 7 barrel, on one of the No. 7 receivers. A set of LB wood was used. I only had to replace the rear handguard which had the Cooey open sight installed, and source a rear sight assembly. The .303 bolt body that was used has a 93L serial; late C No. 4. Fortunately whoever put the rifle together used LB parts. 25 years ago, there were lots of parts available. Now, to get a set as clean as the one used by louthepou is a challenge.
 
even just a few years ago you could pick up a no7 receiver for next to nothing.

I recently talked to a guy at the local gun club who works with one of the local cadet corps and he was the guy to convert the no7's to drill rifles sadly.

they should have been sold off idk why our local cadet corps went anyway from the no7 as they use the armouries range witch is also used by the local police forces and the local reserves.
 
Shameless call to the Enfield Fanatics Community - there are only two parts which I wasn't able to find to complete this build. If anyone knows where I can find the wee little small tiny spring and screw which allow the windage adjustment to go "click click click" when I turn it, let me know :)
 
I think the screw I used in mine was a little one from my junk box - or from the Brownells universal screw assortment. I'll get out my rifle and see what I did.
 
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