If you have an idea of your own, drop us a line on to discuss. If you like this build you can see other complete projects here. Pushing the button in allows it to be twisted and pulled off. To remove it, it has the same system as the bayonet catch. Keeping the suppressor off-centre from the barrel means it is quite nicely in line with the rest of the rifle. I at first thought about making a screw mount adaptor, but this custom suppressor suits the rifle rather well, attaches to the bayonet lugs and keeps the tube out the way of this sights. Dan ( Sniper Mechanic) wanted a way to mount a suppressor. As you can see, with these mounts it is necessary to fold the rear sight back to fit them.Īlthough I have shared pictures before, I thought it would be nice to share a picture of it mounted on the rifle.Īnd finally, the heresy. Side view showing the more modern scope mounts. The No.32 scope is a very distinctive shape, which really changes the silhouette when mounted. Although I tried using modern pattern scopes, alas they just don’t look right on Enfields. As this is an older designed receiver I have used some Polymorph to add material to the structure. You can also see some of the modifications I have made to the receiver to fit the scope. Top view of the receiver: from here you can see the hop-up adjustment screw in the top handguard. The buttplate, a rubber cast copy as originals are becoming very difficult to source. I have also performed a minor heresy in producing shall we say… a non-standard accessory for it (more of that later).Īlthough in due course I hope to produce a No.32 scope mount that is both authentic and very stable it will require more work (though for the record the one I have made previously is fine, just not as stable as I would like for a high-powered sniper rifle). As he is a sniper chiefly, the way I have mounted the scope is different to the way I would do for a British WWII/Cold War Airsofter with the focus on stability rather than authenticity. As a result the trigger group and internals are different to the standard. Some heads up on this No.4 in the aim of full disclosure!įirstly, this is a custom build for Sniper Mechanic, using one of his base rifles. ‘Like’ our Facebook page or follow the blog to get regular updates on projects and interesting videos and articles.ĭon’t forget you can buy many of our complete products via The website. If you like this project or have an idea of your own, drop us a line on to discuss. As an airsoft version, I can’t comment on how comfortable it would be to shoot the original, but I suspect it would be rather brutal on recoil and have a rather blinding flash.Īlthough this was never adopted, I’m glad to have made my own version and can confirm it is going to a very good home. The shorter, lighter version of the SMLE make this extremely handy on its own, add in the rear aperture and it’s extremely quick to bring to bear as well. The narrower aperture is in my opinion better than the No.4 sight, at least in daylight.Īs with the original, I have put a large draft on the front of the aperture to gather the maximum light possible.Īs with my other Enfield builds, I have used my custom Enfield trigger. Having used this rifle in-game I can say confidently that this is an excellent sight, far superior to a regular SMLE notch. On the original rifle, this had two settings for range, on mine I have gone for a simple zeroing elevation adjustment. Possibly the best feature of this conversion is the use of this rear-mounted aperture sight. The originals used metal plates, I use rubber simply because metal plates are very hard to get presently. This was one of my first rifles to use my rubber cast buttplates. This does however make for a very handy rifle! The only real effort to make the rifle lighter at this stage was in shortening the barrel and woodwork. In time I hope to replicate quite a few of the others. This is an impression of the first shortened Australian pattern. This carbine was conceived as a way to make the SMLE shorter and lighter, the project being run in parallel with similar programmes in Ishapore (India) and Enfield (GB), the latter of which used the No.4 as the starting point and resulted in the No.5 MkI. I used this as an opportunity to try out some of my new techniques for SMLE builds. When I saw this pattern of experimental SMLE on Forgotten Weapons (see the video here) I knew I just had to make one.
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