I had an opportunity to grab a jungle carbine at a great price recently and I snatched it up...
My Dad always traded on guns and one of my chores growing up in the 1960s was to clean them. One of the rifles he had that I fell in love with the looks of was an Enfield jungle carbine and I traded for one in the 1980s and kept it for a few years before someone talked me out of it.
Last year I acquired a 2A1 Gibbs special pretty cheap (especially since I had heaps of 308 ammo) and it is a good looking weapon that shoots good...however all it did was make me want the real thing again.
It arrived via UPS a few weeks ago and it's a pretty solid 1945 BSA (BFxxxx) with about 50% of the rifling left in a shiny bore. The rifle has developed some character with a bit of the suncorite worn off the exposed part of the barrel (which is fine with me) and upon inspection, the stock has a BSA M47 stamp and the lower forearm is stamped with a matching serial as the receiver, so it appears to be wearing the same outfit it came out of the factory with.
However the bolt carries a different serial number but on inspection it locks up good.
I ran some lower powered handloads through it and it fires fine!
Jim
My Dad always traded on guns and one of my chores growing up in the 1960s was to clean them. One of the rifles he had that I fell in love with the looks of was an Enfield jungle carbine and I traded for one in the 1980s and kept it for a few years before someone talked me out of it.
Last year I acquired a 2A1 Gibbs special pretty cheap (especially since I had heaps of 308 ammo) and it is a good looking weapon that shoots good...however all it did was make me want the real thing again.
It arrived via UPS a few weeks ago and it's a pretty solid 1945 BSA (BFxxxx) with about 50% of the rifling left in a shiny bore. The rifle has developed some character with a bit of the suncorite worn off the exposed part of the barrel (which is fine with me) and upon inspection, the stock has a BSA M47 stamp and the lower forearm is stamped with a matching serial as the receiver, so it appears to be wearing the same outfit it came out of the factory with.
However the bolt carries a different serial number but on inspection it locks up good.
I ran some lower powered handloads through it and it fires fine!
Jim