Interesting rifles I have shot

[mj1]

I know of two personally one in 303 and one in 308. I shot the 308 at the McQueens sniper course at Bisley and at 200 yards it would put the three warmers into an inch.

308



303

[smle-man]

Super cool!

[eighteenninetytwo]

Is the 303 a cut down No.4 T or an original H and H built No.5? I've heard Peter Laidler talk of these but never seen in person.

[ElvenSoul]

Drool! Those are hotties!

[Discogodfather]

It was the lightening cuts that doomed the jungle carbine to problems right? A friend had a fake he made years ago from an no.4 and I remember without the lightening cuts it was very accurate.

[Bainter1212]

I have a genuine one and it is very accurate.

[smle-man]

It was the lightening cuts that doomed the jungle carbine to problems right? A friend had a fake he made years ago from an no.4 and I remember without the lightening cuts it was very accurate.

I think it was actually three issues:

1. too much rifle for national servicemen to handle

2. Too little rifle for launching AT rifle grenades very often

2. Realization that a self loading rifle was the direction to head

The 'wandering zero' was an excuse to not make it the general issue arm. It was used extensively by the Brits in Africa, the middle east and the far east post WW2 so it couldn't have been that great of a failure.

[mj1]

These were built on original H&H regulated #4T SPARE receivers and SPARE original #32 scopes. The 7.62X51 is a rather famous rifle belonging to an RO at Bisley who has built several experimental police rifles in the UK and the 303 by a multiple times service rifle national champion. Both were personnel friends of the RM sniper who owned this original 1916. I am a very lucky guy to have spent time with them and their equipments and be a guest shooter at the Trafalgar match at Bisley.

[Enfield47]

Those are some pretty cool rifles. Do you know if they were cut down military barrels or if they were commercial target barrels?

[81turbota]

Beautiful rifles MJ. A 308 conversion "carbine" sold recently on another forum, IIRC it was a Santa Fe conversion from a cut down No.4, nothing like the ones you have pictured. I do like the scope addition! I would love to find a Lithgow No.1 HT.

[mj1]