Pistol grip for the Lee-Enfield ?

[snowhunter]

Has there ever, in the evolution of the Lee-Enfield rifle, been any attempt to modernize the stock with a pistol grip design, beyond the silenced, .45 caliber version of the Lee-Enfield, with a folding stock ?

A while ago, I did attempt to design and create such a pistol gripped stock for the Lee-Enfield, which included forming and welding together a metal/wood stock that could be screwed onto the Lee-Enfield, but I still need to do more thinkering and fiddling around with it, before it is satisfactory.

 

[ilovepotatos]

There is the Australian made Bren Lee-Enfield hybrid.

But that thing is hideous.

 

[woodchopper]

well I don't see why it wouldn't work.

take bubba rifle and have at.

I think it might work better if you machine out a 3/4"-1" slot out of the bottom part of the butt socket. This would enable you to get a better connection point for the pistol grip. Another option is to just weld on a pistol grip to the but socket and then apply a set of stock pistol grips.


Hmmmm.....

I have a few bubba's that are beyond repair

 

[tootall]

I saw a few in a parade here in BC a while back.
I had never seen this version before, so I tracked down the cadets that had them. They explained that the gun is now deactivated, and the pistol grip is added only for parade drill routine.
If I can find photos, I'll post them. I dont remember if I took any.

 

[BEARMAN]

If you goto www.pyramid.net/sia/#Enfield K this is a site on converting .303 British Lee Enfield to 7.62x39. Goto near the bottom of the first page there is a custom pistol grip folding stock on a Lee Enfield and it looks good.

 

[Claven2]

There is the Australian made Bren Lee-Enfield hybrid.

But that thing is hideous.

It was a new zealand made conversion, not an australian one.

 

[stencollector]

The addition of the pistol grip was common on the DP drill rifles for the cadets, once the FNC1 came into service and the rifle drill was changed over for that type rifle. I believe it was an official modification.

 

[ilovepotatos]

It was a new zealand made conversion, not an australian one.

Can't get 'em all...

 

[snowhunter]

Thank you all for the responses. The "Scout" version was very cool

 

[R711]

A friend of mine was training in South Africa and picked up a stock for a Lee enfield that was plastic and a R4 folding stock on it. It was intresting and I kinda wanted it but he had no idea on how to get one short of going to SA.
R711

 

[John Sukey]

If you goto www.pyramid.net/sia/#Enfield K this is a site on converting .303 British Lee Enfield to 7.62x39. Goto near the bottom of the first page there is a custom pistol grip folding stock on a Lee Enfield and it looks good.

Have one of those conversions. Sent them a chopped No4, so no complete rifle was harmed. Works quite well. Of course you have to use Romanian single stack AK mags.
Work done on the bolt and quite a bit on the mag well and release lever. Not just a quickie rebarrel.
They are SLOW.
It looks just like a stunted No4 rather than a sporting rifle.

 

[Unsub]

I want someone to make a full length milsurp style black synthetic stock with a scout scope mount for the Enfield.

 

[RRCo.]

There was a semi-pistol grip stock made in WWII for the LB snipers. Brits didn't adopt it because it was Canadian, sniff, sniff, despite all the people who tried it over there, loving it. Same as the C67 scope, all kinds of games were played to make it 'ineligible'. This is from Clive Law's Without Warning, by the way.

 

[RobertMcC]

I know Navy Shooter attempted a pistol grip on a No4...made a adapter for it to use AR15 stocks...

 

[gunasauras]

The addition of the pistol grip was common on the DP drill rifles for the cadets, once the FNC1 came into service and the rifle drill was changed over for that type rifle. I believe it was an official modification.

Incorrect, this was not an official modification. That being said, I have seen this done to cadet DP No 4's as well.....seeing they were DP's, I chose to look the other way so to speak....

 

[Mudpuppy]

It was a new zealand made conversion, not an australian one.

There is an Australian version of the Charlton, it was an improved design that was based on the SMLE and built by Electrolux.

 

[Beater]

if you watch the first crockidile dundee, he carrys a lee enfield with a pistol grip on it.

 

[Turkeyslayer 1300]

In Crocodile Dundee the Rifle has a thumbhole stock not a pistol grip.

 

[Beater]

ill have to watch it again

 

[BEARMAN]

I have used a 12 gauge remington 870 folding stock on a Remington 760pump rifle. I would thing it could be adapted to the LEE ENFIELD as well.