Martini-Enfield Artillery Carbine: RANGE REPORT

Drachenblut

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HELLO!

I've been around here a bit and have never quite seen a range report done for a Martini-Enfield. As such, I have cobbled one together for your viewing pleasure! Let me know what you think!

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Information:

Rifle/Carbine - 1898 Martini-Enfield Artillery Carbine Mk.II
Ammunition - 1995 IVI .303 British

Date - March 18th, 2011
Weather - Clear, slightly overcast with nil wind
Temp - 3 degrees Celsius
Range - 200 yards
Firing Style - Offhand/Freehand, Unrested.
Rounds Fired - 15, of which 12 were hits on paper. The smaller holes were .22-250 rounds placed there by a friend who shot at my target (great aim buddy, ugh! :mad:)

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Lastly, a video for you! A random fellow helped me with the camera work :)

http://s1013.photobucket.com/albums...ery Carbine/?action=view&current=P3170019.mp4

Cheers,
Drachenblut
 
Very decent of you to brave the winter temps and take the old girl out for a spin! Did you have to remove a lot of crud from your barrel?

I have one too, but my bore was shot out (too much Cordite, perhaps) and I replaced it with one from an SMLE Nº1 Mk III.

Haven't had much chance to shoot it since. My trigger is AWFUL- about 12 lbs.! One day when I have all day to work on it I'm going to take it apart and see if I can improve things. The A.G. Parker large-frame Martini in .22 Hornet I got from Clay at Prophet River has an excellent trigger, so I know it can be done.

:) Stuart
 
Like the comments in the Pistol and Revolver Forum re the Webley revolver, it's a shame that none of the repro manufacturers in Italy have been tallked into making a modern Martini-Henry. Might not have quite the cachet of a Shiloh Sharps, but I bet they'd sell.

:) Stuart
 
josquin said:
Like the comments in the Pistol and Revolver Forum re the Webley revolver, it's a shame that none of the repro manufacturers in Italy have been tallked into making a modern Martini-Henry. Might not have quite the cachet of a Shiloh Sharps, but I bet they'd sell.

:) Stuart
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I've always wanted to get a hold of one so that I could reverse engineer it and make one into a modern calibre. I'm sure that with my mills and lathes at work I could make a copy quite easily.... Hmmm. Step 1 is the hardest part though!
 
aric84 said:
I've always wanted to get a hold of one so that I could reverse engineer it and make one into a modern calibre. I'm sure that with my mills and lathes at work I could make a copy quite easily.... Hmmm. Step 1 is the hardest part though!
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There are exploded diagrammes available as large posters from Ian Skennerton's website, but I'm pretty sure they don't have measurements on them. I vaguely remember a discussion about this on the Martini-Henry forum and I think the engineering diagrammes do exist somewhere but I doubt that they're available. The only way would be to acquire a M-H in good condition and start measuring. At least you wouldn't have to destroy the M-H in order to measure it. P&S Guns & Militaria in Quebec sometimes has large-frame M-Hs available...

:) Stuart
 
aric84 said:
If I save enough beans I could also try and clean one up from IMA, just enough to get measurements and then hang over the fireplace, haha.
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That's actually what I did. I've been taking measurements and making drawings as I get time. It cleaned up nice and after fixing the stock I'm making cases to fire off sometime this summer.
 
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