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"Jungle Carbine"

ndbillyndbilly Member Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited October 2001 in Ask the Experts
OK, I know the Brits never called it that, but...One of the neatest looking military pieces ever. Seems like you could add a scope and have Cooper's Scout Rifle concept complete except for caliber. Anyone know a good source? Also - have heard that they are inherently inaccurate. Anyone have any experience with them?
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  • WyomingSwedeWyomingSwede Member Posts: 402 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Try www.gibbsrifle.com I have a couple...they are a basic sturdy unit. The deer dont know what they are shot with. No complaints.... regards swede
    WyomingSwede
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  • Der GebirgsjagerDer Gebirgsjager Member Posts: 1,673 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Talking about the original W.W.II version called the No.5--they did have a reputation for a "wandering zero". Apparently they could be zeroed today, and when fired again tomorrow be off considerably. The best explanation I have read is that this was due to the lightening cuts in the receiver made to reduce weight and resulting in the receiver being too flexible. I've also read that this was not a uniform complaint; some did not have the problem. I own two and both will shoot 2 1/2 inches at 100 yds. benchrested; but I've never really fired them enough to heat them up as one might do in combat, and that might be what it would take to make them "wander" The Jungle Carbines being sold by Gibbs Rifle Co. are, to my understanding, being converted to their new configuration from No.4 rifles and do not share the wandering zero problem because their receivers were manufactured without the lightening cuts and are more rigid. They also offer a Jungle Carbine based on the No.1 Mk.III rifle which apparently in reality only existed as a prototype in Australia, who's standard rifle remained the No.1 throughout the war and which country did not have ready access to the quantity of No.5 carbines they wanted. All versions make handy deer rifles.
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Couldn't you just steel bed the barrel and action, do you think that'd help? Maybe put a reciol lug on it somehow.
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  • Der GebirgsjagerDer Gebirgsjager Member Posts: 1,673 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    No, they really were made for jungle use in such places as Burma; but the No. 5 is the only authentic one. They were also used in some of the British skirmishes after W.W.II like Malaya. The ones being made by Gibbs fit your description. I agree that they're all handy.
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