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This is my Cno7 build that im working on. Its a 1951 Cno7 22IN. MK 1 Long Branch. I bought this as a stripped receiver and tracked down the parts. Everything is C broad arrow. Tracked down a unissued butt stock and a forend. I have the front sight and and all the bands. Just need a barrel and is will be complete. If I cant track down a original barrel I think I will get a worn out .303 sleeved.
P.S If anyone has a lead on a barrel Cno7 barrel PM me please.

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You also need a windage detent spring and its screw. These can be made if necessary.
If you have a No. 4 barrel sleeved, make sure that the barrel breech comes very close to the boltface. This can be adjusted with the chamber insert that fills the .303 chamber.
 
The spring is sort of "L" shaped and the screw is a tiny dome headed screw. They go in/on the small hole on the right side of the receiver just in front of the windage adjustment knob.
 
whats the bolt look like on that rifle?
it dosen't have the same threads for the bolt head,they are smaller than a no4mk1?
do the bolt head threads go all the way to the end of the bolt?

the reason i'm asking is because i picked up a bolt @ a gunshow which
had been welded shut @ one point in time to the receiver.i managed to remove most of the weld(soft stuff) and wonder if this is .22 enfield bolt.
 
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Receiver date has been restamped. You can see a partial date beneath it. It's the wrong font and size. There are 1953 dated receivers out there....as Stencollector commented "post 1950's rare". You've got a very nice build under way...I'd get another receiver before going too far with this project.
 
Bolt head were No4 or 7 look the same. Only difference is the position of the firing pin hole...on centre for no4 and offset for No7. Extractors of course are different.
 
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Receiver date has been restamped. You can see a partial date beneath it. It's the wrong font and size. There are 1953 dated receivers out there....as Stencollector commented "post 1950's rare". You've got a very nice build under way...I'd get another receiver before going too far with this project.
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I am not so sure it is restamped. A close up of the photo shows no traces of a previous number being there, or of any alteration to the surface of the body. More likely it was an undated replacement receiver. I have not seen enough 1950s dated rifles to comment on the sidewall markings. The only one that I can recall was serialised in sequence with normal Cno4 production rifles of that year, rather than the Cno7 serials, which would have likely been in the 2L series by the 1950s if their numbering format had continued.
 
I dont see a partial date underneith. I do see that it has been handstamped but nothing underneith. Maybe this is one of a kind.:p

EDIT: ^^^ He beat me to it. Thanks Sten collector.


Just got the spring and screw added for the windage.
 
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There's a real good reference for the CNo7 receivers in the "Knowledge Form" on www.milsurp.com. It shows the various markings and a couple variations.

Your receiver is a 1946 that has the serial number ordanance scrubbed...you can tell by the flat ground area on the left hand side of the butt sockett where the serial number is normally applied. The "1951" is definitely hand stamped as the font is twice original size. If you look at the "5" you can see part of the "4" and a sliver of the "6" by the "1". Size of the restamping would almost oblilerate the original date. Guess anything is possible.

The only other receiver I've seen is 1953. These were new issue and do not have a scrubbed serial number. Size of the lettering/numbering is same as 1946.
 
I am a bit familiar with the ref on Cno7s on Milsurps....I wrote it and most of the receivers shown were from my collection.

We will have to agree to disagree on this one. The 46 should be directly under the BR if it was ever there. There is no sign of it on this receiver. And as I mentioned before, you can see the pores of the metal if you blow up the photo. If the side had been tampered with, you would not see this. I have often seen Cno7s represented as factory originals, and you can always tell the re-numbered ones by looking at the metal around the serial number area.
 
i've got this bolt and i'm sure it's not a no4mk1 bolt.i'm not an expert on no1mkIII but i'm pretty sure it's not one of them (no4 bolt heads do not screw in as the threads are all the way to the end and seem too small)

i think it's a .22 bolt or maybe an experimental bolt.it had weld on it which i blended down. not totally finished the job but close.

here's pics for you experts:

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toyboy said:
i've got this bolt and i'm sure it's not a no4mk1 bolt.i'm not an expert on no1mkIII but i'm pretty sure it's not one of them (no4 bolt heads do not screw in as the threads are all the way to the end and seem too small)

i think it's a .22 bolt or maybe an experimental bolt.it had weld on it which i blended down. not totally finished the job but close.

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That is a no1 bolt, not a no4 bolt. Ordinarily a No1 bolt body will not function in a No4 action....

It's obviously been heavily modified. I wouldn't use it.
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thanks for all the replies.i thought that no1 and no4 bodies were interchangable,apart from the boltheads.what got me were the threads going all the way to the end,unlike the no4 whose threads start into the bolt.
 
I have an unserialized receiver dated 1953 that I bought 35+ yrs ago and subsequently built a rifle on.
Side markings are identical to this one, except that the 1953 date is stamped with letters that are smaller than this one, and even a bit smaller than the "Long Branch" stamping. There is no flat or changed contour on the butt socket to indicate that a serial number was ground out. To all appearances the receiver is new/unused with a parkerized finish.
 
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