MAB now TS Engineering http://www.tsengineering.com.au/index.php?page_id=18 - http://www.tsengineering.com.au/index.php?page_id=18

 

The other is Tobler Barrels now RDT Products Phone is 02 4885 1881 or email is rdtproducts@bigpond.com

I've sent a sample to the barrel company we use so that the correct profile can be programmed.

So far no one has been willing to pay the price for them.

Might be able to do them cheaper if a group buy were arranged.

No.1 barrels are much easier than No. 4 as there is not need for the bayonet lug to be machined into them.

They advertised stripped Indian manufacture action bodies with very good to excellent barrels installed at a very reasonable price. The barrel alone , if in as good a condition as they described ,would be worth the price.

No sights or other parts just action body with barrel.

These were 1947 dated action bodies.

 

I'd considered ordering one of these myself.

 

 

I would think that there is a market for the production of new barrels for these rifles. Creighton (sp), a company related to Kreiger manufactures barrels for the 03, P17 maybe P14s and others should produce one.. I would think that if the various lugs on the barrel are a issue they could be silver soldered on after turning the contour. Its not as if we would ever use the guns...in anger. I would think if even the price of a new unit would approach  $250 each they could sell them.  Heck they would be new and your gunsmith could install one with a "0" bolt head and a chamber finish cut to mininum size. All this would be worth something in extending the life of the brass.

 

Keep posting names of barrel makers if you all find one.

The internal shoulder of the receiver ring can be ground back by a few thousandths.

Then its a matter of fitting the shank and knox form and cutting the extractor groove.

 

 

Also I should mention that anyone considering having a barrel made from a .308 blank so they could use .308 bullets should know that tests by Ruger have shown that a .303 chambered rifle with .308 bore generated around 7-8% increase in chamber pressure when standard .303 cartridges with .311 bullets were used in the same rifle.

Tests by the Birmingham proof house have shown similar increased pressures when .308 bullets were used in undersized target barrel bores of .306.

When the father was running it he quoted me on a new Long Lee barrel.

Might be worth contacting them , they are in South Australia so wouldnt be affected by the floods.

http://criterionbarrels.com - http://criterionbarrels.com

I wonder if they might consider making them for the Lee-Enfields? I contacted them, am waiting for an answer.

I noticed that your company makes replacement barrels for a variety of US military rifles, old and new. The British Lee-Enfield rifles are still in use in huge numbers in the US and all over the world.
Would Criterion consider making replacement .303 British barrels for these rifles?

 

Response:

We currently have no plans to produce that barrel, although many people have asked and we should look at it. In all honesty, as busy as we are, it could be a couple years. Thanks for the inquiry. 

 

$350 for chrome moly 26” blank (no thread, chamber or crown)

Postage approx. $25 and delivery about 2 weeks.

Too bad U.S. export is such a pain, I would supply profiled, threaded, and chambered barrels for a little less than that.

Is commerce between commonwealth countries easier, as I would expect?

If so I can post contact info for a Canadian barrel company.

Using the original knox form means the barrel has to be put on, the extractor notch location marked, barrel removed, notch cut, then the final head-space set.

If the original style flat at the top of the knox is desired that becomes another issue.

Either it has to be milled after the barrel has been trial fitted and head-spaced, or cut in advance and the person fitting the barrel gets to juggle getting it right along with all the other steps above.

Most gunsmith's are getting around $60.00 an hour for labor, so an Enfield re-barrel job can easily hit $400.00 in the U.S.

I've answered numerous inquiries, but have done very few re-barrel jobs in .303 aside from my own hunting rifle.

I should be able to supply No. 1 match grade bore .311 barrels that are profiled, threaded, semi-chambered and crowned for around $250.00 each (No flat at the top of the knox), probably a little less if I could make a run of several of them at one time.

I would NOT be able to export them.

 

Why don't you guys try our own barrel maker, Truvelo?

 

http://www.truvelo.co.za" rel="nofollow - www.truvelo.co.za  

+27113141405

 

They make good barrels, and may offer you blanks as well.

Here's their website;  http://www.truefliteriflebarrels.co.nz/" rel="nofollow - http://www.truefliteriflebarrels.co.nz

The expense comes when you chamber, thread, fit, and head-space them.

Then you also have to apply some sort of finish, Blue, Parkerize, Paint, etc.

Ads up fast at qualified gunsmith labor rates.

Importing barrels is not easy or cheap, LOTS of paperwork to do it legally.

I can have original profile match grade barrels made, but unless done in quantity to cut cost no one wants to pay the price.

And no one is committing to quantity purchase.

with an A5 stock style and free floating barrel. 

How's this for a process. A South Africa process in case you want to know.

 

Sent rifle to gunsmith in November 2013. Gunsmith ordered barrel. Gunsmith then sent me documentation to ask the police firearms control permission to replace the barrel. Permission granted in February 2014. Barrel fitted, then sent to the SABS for proofing. Still waiting for it to return.

When this is done, I have to re-apply for a new license due to the barrel serial number being changed. Rough time for a barrel change 6-7 months.

This is completely wacky. And the thing is I cannot fetch the rifle until the police have approved the new license. I think if I had known it would take this long, I would not have bothered. So now I am sitting with 400 resized ready to shoot 303 rounds.

I got the shakes and need a 303 fix.

 

 

I see the shape of things to come here in the U.S., if certain elements get their way.

All thanx to the incompetence of our Police structure, loosing many class action suites.

 

But I know what you mean about licensing. My brother emigrated to the land of down under 10 years ago, complete with export and import permits, and the license is still on his name here, with no record of the export of the rifle. Can see this being an interesting event if he came back to SA with the rifle for a hunt.

 

 

 The new system of classification meant we had to re-declare them, but they sent all my .22 paperwork back saying we to busy to do those. Too much work! So they missed the opportunity to get up to date info on all firearms instead of just the big stuff.

Still can't complain too much because the permits are free of charge.

However the original owner did not have a safe, and as I was applying for the rifle I wanted permission to store the rifle at my house in a safe.

Well the DFO wanted to charge the original owner for not having a safe. As the guy was house bound, the rifle is under his direct control and does not need to be in a safe. Secondly the DFO reckoned that the storing of rifle in  safe is for people who are going to live overseas. I asked him with a copy of the law in my hand to show me where it said this. He reckoned that was my interpretation, and I told him that he was interpreting the law himself, which then ended up with a further argument. I then got a work colleague who new the DFO's commanding officer, and the CO told the DFO he was wrong. Round 1 for me.

The next time was arguing again about the law and the motivations and sharing of firearms with another person under my direct control, and was told it was illegal. Point to the relevant section, and got told again it was an interpretation. Anyway I also won that one, and am now well known when I walk in, not to mess with me.

Got to love the FCA, but at least we know how to work the system.