My 44cal Jungle Carbine sporter

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Evanguy

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i had a matching numbers No5mk1 rifle but the barrel had been turned down, it was missing the flash hider and the lower wood was cut off. i was going to restore it, and i may still do it some day but for now I'm leaving it a sporter and installing a Winchester barrel on it.

i made a thread adapter, 13/16-20tpi ID and 1"-14tpi -55* and installed it on a model 92 Winchester barrel in 25-20 and then realized the rifle would be a lot cooler chambered in a bigger round and i then changed out the barrel for a Winchester model 92 barrel chambered in 44-40

i had to install a delrin bushing on the barrel to hold the upper hand guard band place, basically a plastic knox forum. and then i filed out the extractor grove on the barrel and had to take a bit off the extractor it self to make it go over the rim easier, it would without touching the extractor but its a lot smoother now

i also cut the barrel down to 19" from 24" and installed a no1 front sight.

I'm not sure what i will use this rifle for but i have dies, cast bullets and 100 brass on the way. i plan to try out some 300gr bullets , 250gr and 200gr to see what gives me the best groups (looking for 6" groups at 100m) also since this is build on a No4 action i may try and work up to using 44 MAG loads, ill see how the barrel likes them.

it was just a Sunday project, i starter this morning and finished this afternoon, i need the correct sized lead before i can try it out.

edit; the pic where you can read 44-40 on the brass looks odd, the case wasn't all the way chambered

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Thanks guys, im excited to try it out. I feel it turned out pretty good.

And its pretty easy to put different barrles on lee enfields, on No1 rifles often i use a lee enfield knox form cut to 2.5" long and drill it out and thread the id 13/16-20 so the knox screws into the receiver and then the barrel threads into the knox. I set them all up like No1 barrels though.

The barrel is setup like a no1 barrel, it breechs on the inner breech ring in the receiver. So the thread adaptor threads on the barrel up to the shoulder. Then the adaptor and barrel thread into the receiver and bottoms out in it. And then the rim is basically the same as a 303 rim so i was very close in head space. I just used a longer bolt head to give it 0.003" head space.
 
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Yeah im waiting on relaoding supplies but a guy at work has a few rounds he will give me, so i hope to get it out this week.

And its just single shot still now, but i will try and add a floor plate/pistol mag holder and get a mag that will hold 44-40 rounds. My No1mk3 carbine chambered in 32HR mag is also single shot, i hope to add the same mag setup to that rilfe too
 
Careful with the pressures.

Your barrel wasn't designed to operate at 44 mag pressures.

A lot of the 92 Winchester which had their barrels set back and rechambered to 44 mag suffered balloon deformations to the chamber.
 
^^ thanks for the info, i figured the barrel wouldnt be up for those pressures but it may do fine with low pressure 44mag loads, ill probably just work up into the 1050fps range and find an accurate load in there.
 
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So i ended up getting some factory Winchester ammo from a friend, it was only 6 shots so i used them to sight the rifle in. then i found out that the deal i had going for the bullet mold ended up falling through, so i made my own mold at work to get me shooting.

it drops out 230gr bullets at .430-.4305 and i made a sizer to that sizes them to .429, i haven't slugged the barrel but I'm assuming that the bullets are bigger then the bore as the lead i was shooting is un-lubed and in 10 shots it looked cleaner then when i started. the lead is pure lead with a touch of tin so its fine with no lube under 1200 fps with a proper fit.

i ended up using 5gr of tight group under the 230gr cast. that load shows up for the 44-40 and the 44 mag, it should be around 9000psi and 950fps, well i crony'ed 10 rounds and they had to fire form the case too but they were 751-761fps, im looking for 1000-1100fps, ill try a bit more powder or/and a little slower powder.

so i hope once the dies show up ill be able to test it how it shoots, once i get up into the 1050fps range ill hone in a nice load for 50 and 100m.

pics for now.

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