Lee Enfield - L42 A1 - 7.62 Nato caliber

[Sakobav]

I saw this on sale at Griffin and Howe interesting hopefully IA could atleast copy this way of making sniper rifles ..what are your thoughts India should have a large stock of LA1 in same caliber. Note how stock was modified with cheek plates etc ..Its kind of pricey though at $5600 ish
http://www.griffinhowe.com/riflemoreinfo.cfm

Look under used rifles section
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Comments : Lee Enfield L42A1: A beautiful example of the United Kingdom's primary sniper rifle from the early 1970s through the first Gulf War. Fewer than 600 of these rare rifles were imported to the United States. This rifle started it's life as an Enfield MK 4 rifle in World War II at the Birmingham Small Arms factory, in .303 British caliber. It was converted into a sniper rifle at that time (and thus marked with a "T" for "telescope"). After it's World War II service, it was eventually re-converted by the British Army into a 7.62 NATO (.308) caliber sniper rifle, redesignated the L42A1, in 1971. This rifle is all original and all matching : rifle, scope, mount, and stock all match. Bore is pristine. The scope has also been properly recalibrated for the 7.62 round and is in perfect working order, having been recently refurbished. "

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[timmy]

Navi, these things are very cool, IMO. I am guessing that they have full-floated the barrel. Bedding to the action and barrel was always the problem with the SMLE - Mk 4 design, and floating the barrel would help in this regard.

Still, there is the area where the fore end beds against the buttstock socket and the area where it beds against the action around the trigger to worry about. I notice that between the buttstock socket and the fore end, there appears to be a thin layer of material (last and second to the last pictures). That would indicate that the armory was trying to address these issues.

It would be interesting to know how well these things shoot, and what they expected of them. Also, how they performed in the field after being knocked about in real service. This would give a true indication of how a sporting rifle could be expected to perform.

A very interesting rifle, and one I would love to own! For a sniper, having that magazine capacity and the quickness of operation would be great, I think! I would love to own one, but such a rifle is beyond what I could justify spending.

Lovely!

[sa_ali]

Our govt considers it as junk, what an irony, thats what happens when ppl have no clue on what they are doing.

[Sakobav]

timmy I agree its expensive and sa_ali its the govt but importantly the folks at ordnance factory and their workmanship thats questionable because of absolute monopoly in the market.