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6/18/2019 12:47:09 PM
 
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Section 9: Military Weapons Subject: Jungle Carbine Msg# 1049343
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I'm currently reading Shooting WWII Small Arms by Mike Venturino and he comments on that very thing. It's a quite well known concern. Apparently it was thought to be due to the lightening cuts in the receiver, but this was never officially stated by the British military. At any rate, they pull the carbine from service in 1947 after only a couple years of service. Venturino says his personal No.5 carbine holds zero perfectly, and the one I owned in the early 1980s also held zero fine, so I believe the writers who have said this was a problem, but an intermittent problem.
These are very collectible these days, so much so they are "faked" all the time. I put that in quotation marks because most of them are simple to spot, being cut-down No .4s and thus not having lightning cuts in the receivers, even if someone attempts to alter the receiver markings. Too bad you didn't buy a handful of those way back when, you could have made a couple grand! |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Remember when you could buy them for less than $100.00? The knock was that they couldn't hold zero! Image below from HerbSchlossberg - Image Title: photos Image Info: This is a picture of my "new" No. 5 Jungle Carbine, which I haven't seen yet. No. 5 Enfield Jungle Carbine Herb Schlossberg  |
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