Hunting with a LEE?

I use a 1944 Long Branch. I bought it as a sporter with a cut barrel. Since the barrel was cut, I decided to mount a scope and put a full stock on it. Its my "Poor Mans sniper"
 
Yes. For big game I normally use a No.4Mk2 with a Weaver 1.5-4.5x20mm on a Cad-Technik mount. Have also in the past used a No.5 with similar scopes and Cad-Technik mount.
 
Not an Enfield, but I am planning on taking my M1 Garand out next season for the daylight hours, with a scoped 6.5x55 BSA for the early morning and late afternoon twilight times. If I could get a set of Mojo aperture sights for my M38 Swede I would likely try that as well.

I see nothing wrong with hunting with a milsurp, it is a great use for veteran rifles that have lead interesting lives. Of course, I am no collector, I believe all my rifles should get used or they are wasted.

Mark
 
I've killed several deer, and a few raccoons, with my favourite Mk.III. 1911 BSA with original sights and full wood. Also got one with my No.4 Mk.2, and a couple with the No.5. I have found that the Lee action clogs with spruce needles in thick timber, causing jams at the most inopportune moment. I've gone back to hunting with my old .30-30 model 1894.
 
I did take my 1918 Lithgow #1Mk3* out into the woods earlier this year for deer, since it was one of the few milsurps I had reloaded ammo for and knew where it shoots. I was almost certain that it's dark bore of my $80 purchase would never give more than side of barn accuracy from within, but after trying some 150 gr SP reloads was pleasantly surprised when I could engage targets at 200m. It's a tad heavier than I'd have liked but was fine for all but the last 15-20 minutes of legal shooting time, when the sight became nearly impossible to see.

I'll probably have one or two of my other milsurps out next year, maybe trying some Husqvarna sporters or the CZ 858 and M14 as well.
 
My Father hunted with an iron-sighted 1944 No.5 Mk.I for probably 20 years (about 25 years of ownership, but on-and-off) before I got ahold of it. I still take it out EVERY REMEMBRANCE DAY, fire three rounds (as it would, were it part of a 21-gun salute) and observe my moment of silence while holding that piece of history in my hands at 11:11. For a good seven or eight years it was my only hunting rig, and it took my first deer... and about 5 or 6 more!

It's got more deer on it than I care to count; a few moose courtesy of one of my uncles who's borrowed it for a few pack-in/pack-out camps, and at least one bear.

I use another rig for the majority of my hunting nowadays; first it was a fancy-pants Tikka T3 Lite in .300 Eargesplitten Lautenboomer (i.e. .300 WSM) with a Bushnell Elite 3200 5-15x40AO Plex, and now a Savage 10 FCP HS Precision in .308 Win with a Leupold Mark4 LR/T 4.5-14x40AO Mil-Dot. But I'll tell you, it's a damned tradition for me (and it will be for my kids someday, if I can ever con some poor filly into marrying me and bearing my rugrats) to take that rifle out and give it its due and proper every November 11th.

-M
 
I have bagged a few deer with my No.5 Mk.I and my son uses my scoped full wood 1918 #1MkIII for coyote shooting. I usually use traditional black powder rifles for deer now though, but both of my boys still hunt with all full wood milsurps out of my gun collection.
Al
 
It's been this '43 Longbranch for 38 seasons ...so far.
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But , I have over the last 5yr , or so , bought and used sporterd stocks , to keep my forestocks from getting any more dinged than they are.
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And then there's my 1918 Bsa Mklll* thats been rechambered for sporting .410.
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I am planning on hunting deer with my 1944 No.5 Mk.I once I have it sited in for next year, as for other rifles, I am hoping to do some coyote hunting with a Japanese Type 38 Cavalry Carbine if I can sight the thing in.
 
I dropped 2 deer with my original jungle carbine before I got into milsurps because its light and short.... now I wonder why I ever did that. Its not the prettiest no5, but its all original.

Now its my Sako 75 in 7mm Rem Mag and I will never look back!
 
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I took my first deer mith a mrk 111 1917 sold it eventually wished I still had it, I was hunting with a bunch of older gents a few years ago and the kept calling the enfield the dead mans gun but they wouldnt elaborate
 
Dave S, I've used my Indian No4 MkI/2 T, with its No32 MkI scope on several bears, deer and the odd coyote. It's marginal on coyotes past 250m but will shoot minute of bear or deer out to 350m with no problem. These WWII sniper rifles are not the tack drivers we have fantasized about. The same can be said for the M42 Swede and Kar98 sniper variations. Maybe it's just me.
 
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I did not hunt much with mine i used it for a year or so. but never got a deer with this gun. But my dad used it and got well over 100+ deer with this gun. Before he had it, it was my Grandpa gun. He used it to hunt also. And he used it in the war from what I was told.

Then the stock started to crack, and a spring broke on it so it was not that safe to shoot. The sights where broken up. So I went out and got my dad a new savage in 7mm.

Now I am going to "fix" up the gun so my bro can use it to hunt with. Right now I got a new stock for it. But I am also looking at trying to find a wood stock for it. And scope mount.
 
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