A "New" No.4 Mk2 Target Rifle

I posted on here some while ago that a friend wanted to sell his No.4 and after a conversation with him, I suggested he try a mutual friend to sell it to. Sale details here: 

Lee Enfield No4 Mk1 7.62mm (highwoodclassicarms.co.uk)

 My reason for mentioning this is that I assumed his rifle was just another heavy barrel conversion and not an original No.4 configuration that I had been looking for, albeit with a Canadian barrel! 

 Having stopped kicking myself I asked my friend in Fultons at Bisley if he could make me one, after disappearing out the back of the shot for what seemed an absolute age, he emerged with 4 or 5 7.62mm barrels all of which must have been languishing there for 50 years at least. 

I left the barrel choice to him and after a brief discussion about woodwork, which was his main concern for a No.4 Mk2 and the difference in colour and type of wood available. 

I said I was happy with a decent AJP 4/47 in 1/2 MoA to match the SR"b" No.4 he built for me when I retired in 2016.

 This is the result collected a few weeks ago, to "stick the boot in" to my American chums on here (sorry Geoff!  ) the magazine is new, and I was told it came out of its original wrapping about half an hour before I collected it! 

The AJP 4/47 was also unused and half minute clicks which probably saved it from being sold some years ago.

 The foresight is one made by John Wilkes to take the larger 17mm sight inserts; if I was being very vain with this build, I would have chosen a Parker-Hale FS22 tube to take the 15mm sight inserts only because I think they look slightly sleeker and better, however at my age I need all the light there is to illuminate the foresight tube.

One thing I noticed on Thursday was a lot of reflection off the back of the tube and insert, (the sun first thing is right behind you at 300 yards on Century range) I will need to blacken that before my next outing with it.

 How is it for accuracy I can hear some of you thinking? 

Well, the jury is still out on that one and the last thing I intend to do today is share with you is a plot sheet filled in on Thursday in a 5 to 6 MoA wind at 300 yards, although I rather think it shoots in the area of 1 to one and half MoA. 

 I do have an adjustable iris rear sight for it that I was going to use but the extra quarter of an inch that this 6 hole setup gives me saves my shooting glasses from further scratches, I stupidly forget to extend the stock of my AR15 (straight pull) rifle during the summer and scratched my Junghans shooting glasses!