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Old 03-21-2008, 08:22 AM   #56
wunhunglo
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I have a Jungle Carbine. Have not shot it but it does look well made.
Tex...that's sacriledge, having a #5 and not shooting it!! You have too, even just experience the recoil & the wandering zero! Personally, I believe the wandering zero is due to the shooter waiting for the next recoil! ( I also have two)
Billy is right though, the Enfield action has to be one of the smoothest, best & fastest. Try a "Mad minute" shoot between an Enfield #4 and a Garand (at say 100 yards) and see how they compare.

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The fast-operating Lee bolt-action and large magazine capacity enabled a trained rifleman to fire between 20 to 30 aimed rounds a minute, making the Lee-Enfield the fastest military bolt-action rifle of the day. The current world record for aimed bolt-action fire was set in 1914 by a musketry instructor in the British Army — Sergeant Instructor Snoxall — who placed 38 rounds into a 12" target at 300 yards in one minute.

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