Savage N04 mk1

r.fallon

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I picked this up awhile ago and have been meaning to post this interesting piece. It is a 1942 Sav N04 mk1 s/n 6C9###. The gun is a bit of a mix master for parts, incorrect rear sight, stock and stock fittings from two different LB rifles. The bolt receiver and barrel are all original. Besides the fact that it is a mk1, has a early cocking piece, the rifle has a 6 groove barrel!?!
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US ord. "Flaming Bomb" stamp on barrel
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US Board of Ordnance bomb, should it not be a Lend-Lease rifle?

Very nice, anyway.

Mixmasters can fool you; sometimes they shoot really, really well.

Fine purchase, should be up in June Purchases, let everyone else drool a bit!
 
r.fallon: that's okay, we won't tell anyone! Brag a bit! I just did!

desporterizer: Savage was set up to make a 6-groove barrel before the War; it was their standard type at that time. When the British contract came in, Britain was so utterly desperate for rifles that it wasn't even funny. Uncle Adolf was just 22 miles away and he had 4 or 5 million heavily-armed friends and not a single one of them had a visa card.

So the British forwent their wonderful 5-groove left-hand rifling just this once, in order to get the rifles into production faster. The result was a legend: the 6-groove Savage Number 4, which a lot of the old-time long-range shooters prized for their shooting out from 500 to 800 yards.

Later, when there was time for these things and the initial rush was over, they built 'em with the standard 5 grooves, 5 lands, equal-width-high-lands-and deep- grooves, left-hand, 1 turn in 10 inches: apart from the left-hand twist, the precise formula for the super-duper-ultra-modern-better-than-sliced-bread "5R" rifling which is taking the sporter world by storm because of its excellent wearing qualities and very long accurate life. I guess it's something new to them, but milsurp fans know of 10 million Lee-Enfields, 2 million P.-'14s and 2.25 million M-1917s that used it.... with rather astounding success, it should be mentioned.

Enfield should have trademarked that rifling, called it "5L" and the world still would be agog. It was patented by Sir William Metford, same guy as designed the Metford segmental rifling of the Lee--Metford rifle..... which is awfully darned close to what H&K is using today, which also is super-duper-ultra-modern-better-than-sliced-bread and represents the finest of present-day Cherman technology.

But everybody knows the Limeys can't do anything right.

Oh, yeah (yawn)!
 
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Later, when there was time for these things and the initial rush was over, they built 'em with the standard 5 grooves, 5 lands, equal-width-high-lands-and deep- grooves, left-hand, 1 turn in 10 inches: apart from the left-hand twist, the precise formula for the super-duper-ultra-modern-better-than-sliced-bread "5R" rifling which is taking the sporter world by storm because of its excellent wearing qualities and very long accurate life. I guess it's something new to them, but milsurp fans know of 10 million Lee-Enfields, 2 million P.-'14s and 2.25 million M-1917s that used it.... with rather astounding success, it should be mentioned.snip...
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Savage never made 5 groove barrels. They went from 6 groove to 4 groove (I've got a sporterized one), then to 2 groove.

A Savage with a 5 groove barrel has a replacement barrel (usually British). Check the knox form for the manufacturers code and date.
 
smellie said:
Enfield should have trademarked that rifling, called it "5L" and the world still would be agog. It was patented by Sir William Metford, same guy as designed the Metford segmental rifling of the Lee--Metford rifle..... which is awfully darned close to what H&K is using today, which also is super-duper-ultra-modern-better-than-sliced-bread and represents the finest of present-day Cherman technology.

But everybody knows the Limeys can't do anything right.

Oh, yeah (yawn)!
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Even before that, the Whitworth muzzleloading rifle incorporated polygonal rifling.
 
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