Educational Zone #82 - Getting an Enfield Rifle to Shoot

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Educational Zone #82 - Getting an Enfield Rifle to Shoot - Page 1

Some of you may have been following the adventure of rebuilding my friend UH_SALT_RIFLE's ( pronounced Assault Rifle) Enfield.

It shot "Okay", but I thought we could make it shoot better. Here's what we did.

I started by drifting the front sight to the right a little to get the point of impact on the bullseye.

Someone asked me if we were going to "cork" the barrel to put some upward pressure on the barrel.

But these old rifles have a spring built in to the front of the stock that apply good upwards pressure to the barrel.

See here.

So, we decided to bed the action.

We applied some Johnson's Wax to the rear of the action area.

We also slopped it on the front of the chamber support area.

You do this to prevent the action and stock from becoming permenantly glued together after they dry.