Thanks Dan! Really great and important info there. I'm a Canadian (Quebecois actually) viewer and up north there is have a TONE of old bubba’d SMLEs and No4 floating around. I’m currently in the market for a Lee-Enfield, so I'll be armed with great knowledge for my next purchase!
Brian is amazing. I was one of the "early buyers" of the RTI SMLEs, and got burned with one that had absolutely no rifling (and a .303 cartridge tumbles down it). I sent him the barreled action and a replacement NOS Indian barrel and swapped it in one day for a very affordable price.
Lol yep he told me about how the gauge just fell right down the barrel of one of the RTI Enfields he got in a couple of years ago. The bad receiver and barrel I showed in the video is from RTI, I got those as part of a parts gun from them though.
I've had my No4 Mk2 over 10 years now. I think 12 to be exact. I'm about to scope it with 1x6 power. I've got the BadAce Tactical mount for that, and I'm planning on getting the Addley Precision mount later to compare. Thing shoots great. All matching except the magazine. And after that, my Mosin 91/30 is getting accurized and scoped as well.
Hey I got a question I’ve been researching for hours. I have a No4 Mk1*, savage that was sporterized beyond recognition, but the barrel was cut off by 2” so I can’t put a military stock back on it. I was gonna do a scout rifle build but a place near me told me the barrel was too thin to drill and tap, and XS quit making the rails for them. Will a No1 Mk3 sight fit that barrel for a rail, or is there any other way to accomplish this?
You might have to seek out your local gunsmiths for an opinion on what they say. Or you can see if you can talk with BDL LTD in Edgefield SC, he might be able to swap the barrel to an original and put it back to original configuration 😁
@@BattlefieldCurator I’d definitely rather pay the money and get it rebarreled and restored, but the charger bridges were dremeled off. My local gunsmith shop said that the barrel was too thin to drill and tap, but Jerry Dove said he could do it.
I just snagged a 2A1 and No 4 in a lot at RIAC, both sportered, going to be quite a process to hunt down all the bits for them. Fairly easy rifles to get into in a practical sense, but some parts are just not easy to source
@@BattlefieldCurator grabbed a DP stock for the 2A1 already, that’ll be done once my LTC order gets here with the metal. Ended up with a repop stock from Britain for the No 4, we’ll see how that is when it gets here in a few weeks
Great video, had a 1916 and 1918 No 1 Mk 3 that I sold a few years back and decided to buy another so I found a sporterized 1917 BSA that I plan on restoring soon.
My 1916 BSA stock is warped a little :( Based on info from bloke on the range from TFB TV my rifle is not up to spec, no wonder is always favored right. Gonna hold onto it tho since its a Fianna Fail rifle. One rifle im working on is 1942 Savage No4 Mk1* that I replaced the bolt on. (came with the OG Savage made bolt but it was out of spec) I may send this fella my Savage to check for locking lug contact and to see if he could rebed the rifle since there is no negative barrel pressure which is critical for accuracy.
BSAs are rare because, being made in England at the Enfield factory (as opposed to Isapore, India, or Lithgow, Australia), they saw more hard use. Hold onto it!
IT could be a Lee Enfield the marking are so small hard top see but what I can tell it looks like all British markings on it IT ALSO HAS MATCHING NUMBERS ON BARREL AND RECIVERAND H ON BARREL
For some years when the initial WW2 foreign surplus began to arrive, the requirement for sale was that the importer (Century Arms) inspect and only allow useable rifles into the U.S. for sale. Both of my SM:Es have a Century Arms stamp on them.
While I have seen some really good early imported surplus rifles, I have also seen some that were subpar. When I asked a gunsmith about the quality of older surplus, he stated that during the 50s and 60s, the British were exporting some of the lower quality rifles (No1MkIII and No4 MK1) that may have even been out of spec. Some of them were even refurbished to look nice on the outside
I had a sporterized #4 mk 1 and the ‘new old stock’ I purchased didn’t have the metal that the cut down stock had in between what you call ‘the draws’ I’m not sure if it’s original or what.
@@BattlefieldCurator Thanks for the reply my friend. Can you spare a minute to explain why a No 1 magazine won’t operate or won’t operate reliably in a No 4 rifle?
