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7.62mm Enfield barrels
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 3:19 pm
by Gaz
Were there ever any 7.62mm barrels made for the No.4 which also had the bayonet lugs fitted?
Someone elsewhere on the internet is claiming to have a 7.62mm No.4, that isn't an L8, with such a barrel. I'm curious because I thought the only 7.62mm barrels made were for the L8 and the L42.
Re: 7.62mm Enfield barrels
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 3:25 pm
by meles meles
We have a 'bitsa' Lee Enfield with a 7.62mm barrel and a bayonet lug. It's actually the barrel, complete with flash hider and bayonet lug, from an SLR. It was made from spare bits by an armourer down Warminster way ...
It shoots very nicely...
Re: 7.62mm Enfield barrels
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 3:26 pm
by saddler
I has a booky-wooky for sale. £150 & it's all yours. It's even signed by the author....and has the answers to all questions Enfield related....
Re: 7.62mm Enfield barrels
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 6:01 pm
by ukrifleman
Gaz wrote:Were there ever any 7.62mm barrels made for the No.4 which also had the bayonet lugs fitted?
Someone elsewhere on the internet is claiming to have a 7.62mm No.4, that isn't an L8, with such a barrel. I'm curious because I thought the only 7.62mm barrels made were for the L8 and the L42.
Yes there are.
I have a 1942 vintage Maltby No.4 Mk.1, an A.J.Parker 7.62 conversion, that still has the bayonet lug.
It looks just like a bog standard No.4.
Apparently, the barrels came onto the market in the 60's, due to a cancelled Indian order.
ukrifleman.
Re: 7.62mm Enfield barrels
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 6:07 pm
by saddler
Very many such incarnations in the old A J Parker catalogues.
Normally the shape of the magazine is the big giveaway that the No.4 isn't. ..
Re: 7.62mm Enfield barrels
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:14 pm
by snayperskaya
I had until fairly recently a Charnwood Ordnance No4 Mk1 in 7.62 that did indeed have bayonet lugs.
Re: 7.62mm Enfield barrels
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 6:20 am
by Sixshot6
snayperskaya wrote:I had until fairly recently a Charnwood Ordnance No4 Mk1 in 7.62 that did indeed have bayonet lugs.
Is the mag on a Charnwood the same as the Sterling Conversions? It looks like it does.
Re: 7.62mm Enfield barrels
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 7:37 am
by bnz41
snayperskaya wrote:I had until fairly recently a Charnwood Ordnance No4 Mk1 in 7.62 that did indeed have bayonet lugs.
+1 recently sold my Charnwood Ordnance No4 Mk1 7.62 which also had the bayonet lugs in place.
Ref the mag NO some were fitted with Sterling made mags some with Enfield ones, mine had a original Enfield one, these are now expensive. The Sterling ones did not fit as well so round cycling was not as good.
Re: 7.62mm Enfield barrels
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 8:32 am
by Rearlugs
There are at least five different types of 7.62mm No4 barrel around.
The most common types are Sterling - with bayonet lugs - and a Belgian type used on some L8 versions - with no bayonet lugs. Apparently Enfield didn't make its own barrels for the L8 tests.
Canadian DCRA barrels also lack bayonet lugs.
I have three samples of a stainless steel No4 barrel (in the white, no markings at all) that have lugs, and also a blued barrel marked simply ".308W" that also has lugs.
Re: 7.62mm Enfield barrels
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 8:53 am
by snayperskaya
Sixshot6 wrote:snayperskaya wrote:I had until fairly recently a Charnwood Ordnance No4 Mk1 in 7.62 that did indeed have bayonet lugs.
Is the mag on a Charnwood the same as the Sterling Conversions? It looks like it does.
Mine had a 1960s dated Enfield mag, I think the Sterling conversions have a seperate ejector or something like that.