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View Poll Results: I would donate this many servicable condition No 4 .303" rifles and ship them.

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Thread: Would you donate a No. 4 .303" rifle to the Canadian Rangers?

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    Would you donate a No. 4 .303" rifle to the Canadian Rangers?

    http://metronews.ca/news/canada/1187...rs-of-service/

    announces the Canadian Rangers are hanging up their No 4 rifles b/c of lack of spare parts. Cast Boolits has more No. 4 rifles than the Canadian Rangers.

    Who are the Canadian Rangers, you ask? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Rangers

    And they patrol this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Warning_System

    which keeps us all safe. ONLY post in the poll the number of serviceable condition No. 4 rifles you would be willing to donate, and bear the shipping cost for to a US exporter. Canadian contributors would ship to a designated point in Canada. No need to ship to the US & then back again. I'm trying to get a reasonably accurate count. If enough Boolits step forward, we might be able to solve the Canadian military's procurement bungle, keep the Canadian Rangers armed with their preferred weapon against polar bears and probing Ruskies, and garner some good international media attention for Cast Boolits & gunowners in general.

    I have also posted this challenge on other boards - let's see who volunteers more rifles. If you've already voted on another board, please do not vote in this one, unless you're willing to contribute more rifles.

    Canadian Rangers in rapid fire:

    Last edited by backbencher; 10-22-2014 at 01:15 AM.

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    I thought I read where they were replacing the N0. 4's with new Ruger Gunsight Carbines with 20" bbls in .308 W.
    If I were a Canadian Ranger I would ask that you not do me any favors...I want the Ruger.

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    They would like to have the Ruger. But Canadian procurement rules, just like ours, require native production, and there's no way will Ruger allow their rifle to be produced in Canada. So no Ruger for the Rangers. This is more to our benefit than the Rangers - it causes embarrassment to anti-gun politicians, and gives us some good press.

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    There are no Machine Companies unable to produce parts in Canada? Unreal!
    Lets make America GREAT again!
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    Cant they buy parts from 'foreign' vendors?
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    "National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces having issued a request for proposal to gun maker Colt Canada for a replacement."


    ​Just as well. Asking a bunch of strangers to donate 'serviceable' rifles probably wouldn't work out the way they hoped...
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    Kudos to the member who stepped forward. Another forum is 16 rifles ahead of Cast Boolits...

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    I see we now need to supply Canada with arms during peace time.

    At least when we supplied England with arms it was during war.

    Lets see their current arm is an old bolt action, no one in Canada produces a bolt action rifle?

    Somehow I smell a rat in the wood pile.
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    I have never owned an enfield, so donating one would be a moot point.
    I am having trouble with this though, why do they want (or do they) want old rifles donated. If there is no one making suitable rifles for them, that the govt will let them buy, it sounds as if there is a business opurtunity for some enterprizing person.

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    This is the funniest joke I've seen in a week. It should be in the humor section.

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    I'm willing to donate a safe queen I call The Bubbette (Still safe to shoot - just ugly) but I would think Colt Canada should go and tell one of their CAD programmers to start scanning and measuring No4 parts for duplication. CAD Machines make machining spare parts almost child's play once the program is written.

    AND Criterion Barrels here in the US is about to go to market with BRAND-NEW barrels for the No 4s. They are in pre-production testing right now but their prototype duplicates the original barrel all the way down to the Knox form and bayonet lug. AND they have a Canadian partner company as well to export to Canada.

    http://criterionbarrels.com/media/cr...-status-update

    And yes, I have money set aside to buy one of these barrels for The Bubbette when they announce their availability.

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    I'm confused - why would you even suggest such a thing? - Doesn't Canada still have C1/C2 FAL's in inventory - And like the US . Gov the rules can be altered for specific needs if they need to purchase from non-native sources with a vote and stroke of a pen.

    Besides that they would have to disassemble all your "donations" and get parts for them to bring them up to snuff. Same problem they have now.
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    I don't know where I could lay my hands on a serviceable No 4 303 rifle.
    That is clearly not a No 4 Mk 2 rifle in my avatar.
    That is not .303 brass on the ground!
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    That's Blondie. I take her out for a date at the range every once in a while!
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    Quote Originally Posted by bruce drake View Post
    I'm willing to donate a safe queen I call The Bubbette (Still safe to shoot - just ugly) but I would think Colt Canada should go and tell one of their CAD programmers to start scanning and measuring No4 parts for duplication. CAD Machines make machining spare parts almost child's play once the program is written.

    AND Criterion Barrels here in the US is about to go to market with BRAND-NEW barrels for the No 4s. They are in pre-production testing right now but their prototype duplicates the original barrel all the way down to the Knox form and bayonet lug. AND they have a Canadian partner company as well to export to Canada.

    http://criterionbarrels.com/media/cr...-status-update

    And yes, I have money set aside to buy one of these barrels for The Bubbette when they announce their availability.

    Bruce
    Canada used to make Enfields!

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    I don't have his number, but to get the rifles donated in sufficient numbers to do any good, a call to Holder along with a letter of intent to use them against the U S population may be in order.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BrassMagnet View Post
    Canada used to make Enfields!
    That is the sad part! My other No4 is a Longbranch but they aren't getting that one back!

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    Not a hope. Ship them a few hundred cases of surplus Mosins.
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    Dadgummit, you Kiwis are selfish. lol

    Something smells with this deal. I know nothing about the rangers, but do not see them asking for this.

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    Now, just why would an American want to give a gun to a socialist, gun grabbing goveernment who will ultimately do as the British did at the end of WWII, dump the ordnance in the ocean. Mu grandfather loaned a gun to GB in WWII the the promise that is was to be returned after the war if recoverable. It was not but probably was not a combat loss as it was a Modle 71 Winchester.

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