Hm, not too fine a point to it, but what about the missing butt-plate? I happened to pick one up at 'The Axman' At University Ave. Minneapolis/Saint Paul. for my own 'Cousin Lee' Nr4 Mk1. There is hardly any difference between Nr4 and Nr5, aside from being blackened and that is easily remedied.
It's indeed a very interesting clone of the otiginal Mk V. The loader is totally baionnetdifferent and it lacks the original Lee-Enfield nail baionette support.
Кто хочет знать как не нужно реставрировать рекомендую посмотреть на это.нужно было использовать кувалду,болгарку и перфоратор.наждачный круг и надфель он использует 😂
I love understand some one trying to save something like this with a bit of history. But dude. Please get padded vise jaws, a decent screwdriver, some punches and inspect your bore!! Rust is a bore obstruction.
A nice job on a rifle which has already been butchered and as such as little, if no, value. We have the same here in France with the Gras 1874. When it was phased out, a lot were sold on the civilian market and modified for hunting? They were much appreciated as it was a very strong and reliable weapon. But if you compare a "sporterized" Gras with a military one, the prize goes from one to four, at least.
Gripping the metal and wooden parts in a cast iron toothed vise will always damage the surface. I regret that this renovation was of a generally slipshod and disappointingly poor standard.
Unfortunately most people that chop the the forends down on these and the No4's are not aware of the detrimental effect it has on accuracy on these rifles, they are pressure bedded with springs on the No1 MK3 at the mid point and the nose cap, the tension is adjustable to keep the weapon accurate, chop off the forend and your weapon no longer has the legendary Enfield characteristic of getting more accurate the further the round goes.. ..btw this is an Indian built one, I think the last Brit ones were for the Irish contract in '56 and they were No4's...
Wait, reblued the bolt as a single piece? And then removed the bolthead before polishing the rail? And so aggressive with the sandpaper. Why install the rear handguard before mounting the rear sight? Those clips that hold it on are spring clips, he could have just slapped it on after everything else was reassembled.
Shouldn't let him near these beauties. Wood clamped in the vice, no butt plate, goodness knows what the barrel was like. Sacrilege. If you can't do it properly there are plenty who can help you.
1958? The only place making that model at that date was India. And there it is on the rear right side of the body: "ISHAPORE". The rear sight base should have a small retaining cross pn, as well as being a "tight fit on the barrel and the rear sight "guard "ears should have the inclined face to the front and the "kinked" 'blade" on the right side. If the barrel has been "lopped" there is not much point in re-stocking the whole thing. The front-sight base is supposed to fit over a reduced diameter muzzle section and be retained by a "key" and a cross-pin, the "saw-cut" on the right side of the base is straight-up "Bubba; with nothing to actually lock it in place.. Good project for starting to learn "the trade" but probably not much of a "working rifle.
22:15 shows the markings, its was made in 1958, in ISHAPORE (AKA Ichhapore, West Bengal, India) Rifle Factory. Its still active today. Question is - how can it be called British rifle ? They were gone by then.
