Rhineland Arms 45 ACP conversion kit for Enfield questions regarding barrel profiles

[Smiley119]

Apologies ahead of time for posting in the wrong section ...

Hello everyone I've been staring at my Enfield and with .303 being non-existent in my stores nor do I currently have the capacity to reload. I'm planning on purchasing a Rhineland Arms 45 ACP conversion kit from wolverine supplies . What I hope to have done to it is to have a set of iron sights mounted (hopeful with a protector hood) that's also driftable for windage. From what I can see there are 2 different barrels on the Wolverine site there are 2 different barrels 1 is a normal profile and the other is a bull barrel considering I'm hoping to have irons mounted which barrel would be better?

Edit: Rifle in question is a Bubba'd No4

 

[bearhunter]

I would choose the barrel that can be turned to give you the proper dimension, so that you can press on or sweat/solder on a repro No5 (Jungle Carbine) front sight or see if you can find one of those ###y looking sights that someone has taken off their rifles. Usually, they have had the bayo lug ground off.

That's what I put on mine and it's great, because it's the right height to use with the issue rear sights and is windage adjustable, through the openings on eac side.

You don't mention whether your rifle is a No1/No4/No5.

 

[Smiley119]

I would choose the barrel that can be turned to give you the proper dimension, so that you can press on or sweat/solder on a repro No5 (Jungle Carbine) front sight or see if you can find one of those ###y looking sights that someone has taken off their rifles. Usually, they have had the bayo lug ground off.

That's what I put on mine and it's great, because it's the right height to use with the issue rear sights and is windage adjustable, through the openings on eac side.

You don't mention whether your rifle is a No1/No4/No5.

That's a fantastic idea ... I'll look into emailing the guys that make the product and see if I can't get a dimension on the barrels ... the Enfield I have is a No4 but it's got all it's marking on the receiver ground off

 

[bearhunter]

I've only shot mine a couple of times and in all honesty, it's rather lacklustre but it's accurate enough out to 50 yds.

You're also going to have to stock up on 1911 magazines for the 45acp, because the kits don't come with any.

These aren't just a quick screw in job and tighten up the barrel jam nut. They require some gunsmithing to get things properly aligned and headspaced. The extractor on your bolt head is to short and it will have to be replaced with a 308 or ground down 22rf extractor.

I also put an after market synthetic stock on my rifle

One other thing, you can load the 45acp rounds to much higher pressures for these rifles.

 

[Smiley119]

I've only shot mine a couple of times and in all honesty, it's rather lacklustre but it's accurate enough out to 50 yds.

You're also going to have to stock up on 1911 magazines for the 45acp, because the kits don't come with any.

These aren't just a quick screw in job and tighten up the barrel jam nut. They require some gunsmithing to get things properly aligned and headspaced. The extractor on your bolt head is to short and it will have to be replaced with a 308 or ground down 22rf extractor.

I also put an after market synthetic stock on my rifle

One other thing, you can load the 45acp rounds to much higher pressures for these rifles.

I'm most definitely going to bring it to my local gunsmith as I don't have the gear or skill to go about such a task. As for the Extractor I'm probably going to need him to either manufacture a new one as I don't think .308 or .22 extractors are particularly common.

As for .45 have you tried running 185 Gr as well?

 

[OkayShooter]

I've only shot mine a couple of times and in all honesty, it's rather lacklustre but it's accurate enough out to 50 yds.

You're also going to have to stock up on 1911 magazines for the 45acp, because the kits don't come with any.

These aren't just a quick screw in job and tighten up the barrel jam nut. They require some gunsmithing to get things properly aligned and headspaced. The extractor on your bolt head is to short and it will have to be replaced with a 308 or ground down 22rf extractor.

I also put an after market synthetic stock on my rifle

One other thing, you can load the 45acp rounds to much higher pressures for these rifles.

Don't they just tell you to file the bolt head so the extractor comes in more? #### got a factory one to work with 9mm. But it would not feed worth crap. Required too long of a jump from the mag to the chamber. I think 45 work as the bullets are soo big and heavy that they don't flip out of the mag as hard.

 

[bearhunter]

They feed very well with 45acp as long as the mag block is set up properly.

I've seen a few that have been converted to 5.56nato and they fed extracted just fine out of AR mags that had been installed by fitting a custom block, which is exactly what's going on with the conversion you're looking at.

You can get the No4 type actions to eject fine with just about any cartridge as long as the extractor claw can get enough grip to grasp the rim properly for extraction.

The 45acp rim is .065+- smaller than the rim of a 303 Brit case and there can be extraction issues with the regular extractor.

They found that out the hard way when converting the actions to 7.62x51nato. So they built an extractor with a longer claw and the extraction issues were solved.

These extractors are available and relatively cheap.

IMHO, I would pursue an extractor with a longer claw, before I would do any grinding on a bolt head. Don't fix it if it isn't broken.

No, I've only used 225gr custom half jacket semi wadcutters, that I have had for close to 40years.

I've also used Wolf 230gr fmj round nose.