Shooting .303 British today

[Red Marley]

Today being Dec. 7, I thought I would shoot some WWII-era rifles, starting with a rather unique one. Any of you milsurp experts know what model Enfield this is? @Combat Diver , I’m looking at you. @rufrdr, you keep quiet 😉.


Here it is (top) with my Longbranch No. 4 Mk 1


The No. 4 got some exercise today too

 

[Combat Diver]

Never seen a variant with that short of a barrel as standard issue. The MLE had a 30" bbl, No1 Mk III and No. 4's had a 25.2" and the No. 5 Jungle carbine had a 18.8". This one looks to have about a 16" barrel and front nose cap where a barrel band on a No 4 would be. I would guess barrel length of 16" or so. The .22LR Cadet rifles and .410 all used 25.2" barrels also to my knowledge. The 7.62mm rifles used a different box magazine and this one is the slanted .303 variety.

Commercially there were shortened rifles known and sold as "Bulldog" and "Tanker" descriptions by importers.

CD

 

[Inglis]

Gibs carbine to look like a No 6 rifle.

 

[rufrdr]

Can I say I like them?

 

[Red Marley]

@cubrock ? @rintintindog68 ?

 

[cubrock]

I haven't seen a No 4 that short. Interesting that it still has the bayonet lug on the barrel. I'm all ears.

 

[Red Marley]

@Combat Diver was closing in on it. Here are a couple of clues:
Enfield No. 4 tanker Part 1
Enfield No. 4 tanker Part 2
Mine is the second one Mark did, with some minor improvements over the first one. Purists, don't get your knickers in a twist, OK? As Mark says, they made a lot of these, and this one didn't belong to Winston Churchill or Lawrence of Arabia. I'm still tweaking the sights and stuff, but it shoots as good as my Longbranch No. 4 at any distance I'm likely to use. And it's fun

 

[cubrock]

Pretty cool. I knew there was an outfit that did those with Number 1s. Hadn’t seen a No 4 done that way. I like it.

 

[Red Marley]

The flash hider attaches via the bayonet lugs on this one. There was a lotta wood removed from the stock, not just the part that was cut off.

 

[BrettB]

Both very nice looking rifles- someday I will have one

 

[baltimoreed]

Nice build, I like them short and handy. Been toying with cutting down my No1 Mk3 build. Haven’t done it yet but something like this.

 

[Hoss]

Here's one of mine.

 

[Chris.]

@Combat Diver was closing in on it. Here are a couple of clues:
Enfield No. 4 tanker Part 1
Enfield No. 4 tanker Part 2
Mine is the second one Mark did, with some minor improvements over the first one. Purists, don't get your knickers in a twist, OK? As Mark says, they made a lot of these, and this one didn't belong to Winston Churchill or Lawrence of Arabia. I'm still tweaking the sights and stuff, but it shoots as good as my Longbranch No. 4 at any distance I'm likely to use. And it's fun

I love that guys channel. Congrats on having a gun built by him, he seems to be a real craftsman.

 

[Weav]

They are fun.
Here’s one of two I had. Both no1 mkIII Sold one, kept one. The one I kept rings small steel plates at 200 yards with iron sights just fine so the shortened barrel didn’t hurt any accuracy, at least none that I cared about.