TattooedGun wrote:
Russian-Dude... You planning on going to Minsterley anytime in the next couple of weeks and fancy watching me bruise my shoulder with it for the first time, and a sneaky pop with a British rifle instead of that Russian rubbish you use...? haha
I'd be up for that mate, let me know when you are thinking of going and I'll do my best to be there, we could compare the No.5 to the SKS perhaps? .
Despite my Russian leanings I have owned two Enfields.....a .303 No4 Mk1 and a Charnwood Ordnance No4 Mk2 chambered in 7.62 NATO.
"The only real power comes out of a long rifle." - Joseph Stalin
Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank.....give a man a bank and he can rob the world!.
Never really had a hankering for milsurp probably stems from the massive disappointment I felt as a kid. But, if I was to put one in my cabinets it's a toss-up between a K31 and a Number 5....
In 1978 I was told by my grand dad that the secret to rifle accuracy is, a quality bullet, fired down a quality barrel..... How has that changed?
Guns dont kill people. Dads with pretty Daughters do...!
snayperskaya wrote:Nice rifle you have there Ste, you'd been after one for a while now if I remember right
The painted number on the stock could be an armoury rack number, I don't know if the British did that but my Dragunov stock has one.
Yes the British did put rack numbers on the rifles, every L1A1 I was issued with had a number be it wood or plastic stock, not sure they do it now though.
I have what I presume is an armoury rack number on the butt of my No.5, but as it's 'hard stamped' into the wood, I suspect this might have been done by whoever the rifle was handed over to/sold after its time with MOD.....??
haha
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