Jungle Carbine wood stock
- Thread starter Crispy1988
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You see original stocks offered from time to time.
The stocks on your rifle look like the Sile made stocks used by Parker Hale. If you decide to restock the rifle, you will be able to sell these to offset your cost.
Your rifle has been drilled and tapped for the scope mount.
See lot number 22706 at Switzers Auction (Militaria). There are some of the parts you need.
The stocks on your rifle look like the Sile made stocks used by Parker Hale. If you decide to restock the rifle, you will be able to sell these to offset your cost.
Your rifle has been drilled and tapped for the scope mount.
See lot number 22706 at Switzers Auction (Militaria). There are some of the parts you need.
UK. Lee Enfield Parts and militaria sells numerous LE parts and stocks. Sarco in the US is another possibility. Supposed to be a place in Australia but haven’t checked it out yet. Prestigious is the only game in Canada for reproduction wood. Stocks occasionally show up on the EE and GP.
Prestigious stocks need a lot of fitting and it appears that the barrel ring for the handguard has been cut off.
It would be easier to cut a new one and epoxy it to the barrel to hold the handguard. Removing the flash hider is a bear of a job.
Personally, I would buy the nicest No 5 that I could find, and get a job at the Shrine of the Dead Hockey Player (Hortons) to pay it off. Much less time and effort.
No 5's are fun but not great shooters. After 3 shots, the barrel gets hot and the impacts wander.
That said, I'm in the middle of restocking a No. 5 with Prestigious wood, and hope to make it a good shooter with modest cast bullet loads.
It would be easier to cut a new one and epoxy it to the barrel to hold the handguard. Removing the flash hider is a bear of a job.
Personally, I would buy the nicest No 5 that I could find, and get a job at the Shrine of the Dead Hockey Player (Hortons) to pay it off. Much less time and effort.
No 5's are fun but not great shooters. After 3 shots, the barrel gets hot and the impacts wander.
That said, I'm in the middle of restocking a No. 5 with Prestigious wood, and hope to make it a good shooter with modest cast bullet loads.
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Many No 5's were poorly stocked from the factory. I have a new one and the stocking up is frankly crap. You can eyeball what's wrong with it with just a little experience - no real expertise required. If it was me, I'd get new wood and do the work, at least it would come out straight. It might even shoot straight.
The jury is definitely out there. The famed wandering zero seems to not exist on many rifles, but does exist on some.
I’ve never noticed it on my example.
I heard all kinds of stories about the wandering zero. I have never seen one or met someone that had a rifle that did it. Old wife’s tale.
Years back, I "accurized" a No. 5. I glassed the buttstock, ways and recoil lug and made sure the barrel was free.
Three shots were in a nice group at fifty yards, then the forth an inch higher, and the fifth an inch higher yet and so on.
Three shots were in a nice group at fifty yards, then the forth an inch higher, and the fifth an inch higher yet and so on.
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I seem to remember years ago Laidler said it was 100% a thing. But that it wasn’t wandering, they’d just lose it. It’s somewhere in the bowels of milsurps.com’s archives I’m sure.
I bedded one due to having its draws damaged. Continued shooting without the spacer under the front trigger screw. Now one of my best LE shooters. I bought it cheap due to its accuracy issues.
It takes some work but can be done. If you know how to shape the wood not a problem. Having a good one in front of you helps with trying to get the same shape.
They are inletted different for the no5 butt pad. So no
