New to me 1944 Full Wood Ishapore

Finally received the full wood Ishapore  1944 SMLE "little big brother" to my 1941 sporter and I am thus far VERY impressed with it  I did not ask any information when I was dealing on this, so it was a very long week waiting for it in the mail. When I finally recieved it, I tore it all down, and the only thing missing was the middle barrel band spring underneath the rear sight. Happened to have a spring that was close enough, and after cutting and sanding it square it was non issue. The nose cap isn't number matching, but I don't care and neither will the boulders, gongs and whitetail this will be slinging boolits at  I shimmed the nosecap with some cardboard to get a "better" alignment between the front sight post and the nose cap blades, but it changed the pressure point engagement the nosecap puts on the barrel, so I took it out and left it as is. Atlast this nose cap wasn't "free floated". I think I has all the right stuff in all the right places. I also sanded the upper hand guard and the stock the best I could for a mirror flat fit between the two. A small piece of cardboardis also underneath the front of the trigger guard screw for a little more tension on the stock. A small piece of cardboard is under a top quadrant of the handguard band moves the rear wood fingers just off the rear sight base. I switched the rear stock and the scope off my sporter to test the accuracy of the full barrel, as I did not want to drill new holes in the Un molested stock, complete with brass coin  I fired a few groups before I got the stock dialed back to factory(3-4 moa),  and then I shot some after (sub 1.5moa sofar) to continue fireforming for .308 projectile load development down the road. Comparing this SMLE to my SMLE sporter, the trigger is scary smooth, with no noticeable creep. This SMLE has seen some trigger time, and the mountain of patches to clean the bore can attest to that as well. All in all I am more than pleased, and feel like I have an incredible looking and shooting SMLE 

It shoots really really nice. The trigger on this rifle is nothing like I've pulled before. My only other comparison is my 1941, which is like pulling a cinderblock over a gravel pile . The second stage on this trigger is nice and firm, with no noticeable creep or felt travel until the shot. 

This is just a factory 5 groove 1944 SMLE in .303brit "2.222" stamped chamber. My sporter has the HVSC stamp near the rear sight, but this one does not. Im only trying .308"s in my enfields because I have a VERY limited supply of .311, but bushels of .308 from my 300WM. Full disclosure here, I use an app on my phone called range buddy. You take a picture of your group, and input a reference size (in this case 5.25"), the range (63), and the bullet diameter (.308-3.11). It's kind of a finicky app to navigate, but I primarily use it for scope adjustments (works amazing for this. Shows and tells you in inches how far your group is from POA). But getting back to the group size, I just messed with it again, and if when you select the shots on Pic for analysis,  if you're off just a smidgen, at this close range, it can vary the MOA measurement from 1.5-2 MOA. I'm just happy this SMLE doesn't group like a shotgun like I've read in other posts.lol. It's minute of popcan accurate in a 77 year old warhorse, with an enjoyable trigger, fast smooth action that is just fun to shoot 

You have quiet the eye ball sir! Haha. I'm just out tinkering with some 168SMK's, and checked that 5 shot group. 1.25"/.63=2.0 MOA! 

britrifles wrote: that’s only because I have literally plotted out a few thousand ten shot groups over the last 20 plus years of shooting ....

Divide by 1.05, the range in hundreds of yards.