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First Blood - Lee Enfield No 4 .410


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Thought I'd pop a pic up of my first kill with my lee Enfield no 4 .410 shotgun

 

Shot at around 20 yards, dropped like a stone and what a buzz to be using something like this :)

 

Had a quick drive through the farm and ended in the below, fantastic gun to use :good:

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It's a great gun, may upload some videos of it in action as there is none out there that I can find. They generally fetch around the 500 mark

 

I've looked at that Nagant and its been butchered, shame I'd love one

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corr 500 quid

 

in 1985 the no 4 could be bought out of the shooting times mail order for 65,00 and the smle for 75.00 plus 4.95 carraige , if my memory serves me right the firm selling them had all marks and models of enfields

 

they even had a few long lee enfields ( boer war era ) for the princely sum of 225.00 , a lot of money back then , i always wanted a smle or no 4 , but was put off by people that had them , some claimed they were not a lot of good , no choke , poor paterns , etc

 

does your no4 use cartridges made out of 303 brass or 2 1/2 inch plastic shells as everyone i,ve had the good fortune to hold has used the brass 303 case .

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I love mine, it's chambered for 3" carts. I have bought a load of new .303 cases and intend to fire form them for reloading with shot

 

Pattern isn't bad at all with 2 1/2 14g carts if you keep the range sensible, there is very little if no choke at all given the nature of the gun I guess.

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Thought so, nice work and a way to breathe life into an old rifle.

 

People do use the 303 for deep stalking I gather, but it can't be that common.

A friend of mine has one in .303 - somehow he has it down for foxes, it's just gone into a new synthetic stock and dosen't look too bad at all.

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M . I . A

 

i tried fireforming 303 brass in a webley and scott bolt action years ago and failed , not the best of guns to use for the purpose i grant you , the problem i found was the area where the necks were , was being split

 

only tried doing half a dozen , only two turned out to be of any use , the other four were knackered , though to be fair i did not anneal the cases before reloading so that didnt help , but i did not reload metalic back then

 

so if i were you i,d only anneal the neck and shoulder area of your cases before trying to fireform , use a fast burning powder to blow out the neck and shoulders out of the case , good luck .

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i know you can shoot a 410 out of a 45/70 ,but i dont think a 45/70 will fit in a 410 ,but found this link using a ,444 marlin brass case

 

http://www.endtimesr...0reloading.html

here another one ,but i take no responsibility if you try any of these ,just covering my butt so to say

http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=85502

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