New Paper Patch rifle has arrived!

[303Guy]

It's a Lee Enfield of course! A No4 Mk1 Longbranch. These usually came out with two-groove barrels but not this one. It's a five-groove![smilie=w: I took a chance when I bought it unseen. It has what seems to be a 'worked' trigger - nice and crisp with a short first sage. And the rifling is sharp and clean. The muzzle will have to lose half an inch or so but thats fine. It will get a suppressor of course (or at least a semi-suppressor). So, paper patch development for this rifle begins!:Fire:

[docone31]

Heck dude! You done ok.
Bed it down, probably a .314, Chamber it Epps!
Should be a sweetheart. Ought to patch real fine.

[303Guy]

Oh boy! This rifle is going to need to be fire-lapped. Just three PPCBoos fired and after each one I cleaned out lead! Well, so be it. I'm just surprized that the patch was failing in the bore when the bore actually looked quite good - not mint, mind you but quite good just the same.

The good news is that my existing 213gr PPCBoos fit quite snugly into the throat.:grin:

[docone31]

Instead of LLA, try some lapping compound. It really did wonders for me. Lead be gone, and hammer marks went away.

[1874Sharps]

303Guy,

Wahoo, and congratulations on your new acquisition! I have a question about suppressors. Do you have to have some sort of license Down Under for such things, or are they unregulated?

[303Guy]

No licence and unregulated!:-D The Ozzies don't have it so good though.:(

I think they should be compulsory. The mini version anyway (my invention but I'm sure someone would already have invented it).

I actually have another new to me PP rifle. It's an 1896 NoI MkI carbine that was set up as a target rifle (standard military style). This is my new 'pig gun' and is to be used with subsonic very heavie's. (My sub-sonic load thread). My first 'pig gun' is to be put aside until I can get it re-bored to 375-303 (38 Hawkins). It too is a NoI MkI carbine.

[Hubertus]

Let the fun begin8-)

Hubertus

[1874Sharps]

I wish that suspressors and such were not so regulated here in the States. A person here can pay a fee of $250 (if I remember the amount correctly) and get a non-transferable license for a supressor. If sold, the next guy pays for another fee to the government for the thing.

[slug]

Hi 303guy:
I found that I neededjust over one hundred lapping loads before my Long Branch did well with cast. The LB's were some of the best made No 4's.

[303Guy]

I've been fire-laping this thing a bit using cast boolits with grit grooves machined into them. I can now shoot a patched boolit through it without the patch cutting through. AND, the rifling is nice and sharp! [smilie=w:

[pdawg_shooter]

One of my favorite PP rifles is a No.4 Mk.2. It is my pickup rifle. The lyman 311446 sized .304 and patched up is about the only load I use any more.