You don’t see many, if any, at the world benchrest champs. Yes, it has been used very successfully in competition but by and large this been against like firearms so a level playing field. What I am trying to say here is the Lee Enfield (LE) was not designed as a tack driver and as such when referring to its accuracy potential our expectations of its abilities should be realistic and in line with this. After all, it is a battle rifle design for shooting, diabolical as it may sound, people and there is no shortage of historical evidence to suggest how effective it was at this task. 303 fans soak the pages of this magazine). This tremendous revelation does not make the Lee Enfield a bad rifle though (he said as the tears of a thousand die hard. In fact it is everything a target rifle is not. So the Lee Enfield is not a precision rifle and neither was it designed to be.

Metallic sights, open or aperture, a scope on a “T” designation rifle.

Rear locking actions, milled from square section with narrow, flexible side rails.

Mass produced, skinny, whippy barrels that don’t ‘float’ in the stock.

Two stage military type trigger, let off in the region of 6 pounds.

Two piece stocks with top woods, tension devices and nose caps.

Now let’s run through that list of points and see which ones apply to the Lee Enfield.  Robust, cylindrical, front locking actions.Īll these factors when combined with an inherently accurate cartridge, precision loaded ammunition and a component shooter lead to a super accurate rifle.  Premium grade, heavy weight, air gauged, free floating, cryo relieved barrels.

The most accurate bench rest rifles in the world have: YOU WANT THE TRUTH? YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH! The final example relating to ladies accessories and swine appendages is particularly worthy of note in terms of battle rifles or more specifically the British Lee Enfield. And my all time favourite, “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”. “Two wrongs don’t make a right” I know, I’ve tried.

“There are no bones in tripe” a butcher will confirm this. For example “What goes up must come down” ask a pilot.

There are, in this world, a good many irrefutable truths. By JeffinNZ: Here is an article I had published recently in NZ.

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