Who'd have guessed there'd be so much trouble making new Enfields?

[rodregier]

For those who missed this AM's serving of alphabet soup, DND is the Canadian Department of National Defense, their equivalent of the US DOD

http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/index.page

UK has MOD (Ministry of Defense).

Alas, they all suffer from big organization contracting syndrome :-(

I have a nasty suspicion that the Enfield design is not well-fitted/optimized to modern production methods, which would make unit production costing expensive even *if* DND wanted to travel down that road.

Ruger for example uses investment casting for most of their firearm receivers, but they have a separate division (Pine Tree Castings) to do that, in addition to a bunch of other products that lend themselves to investment casting. Rocket nozzles and golf club heads are some of the other production items.

http://www.ruger.com/casting/

 

[Panzerschwein]

R.E. Post 14
The Australians were making them anyways. Don't know if they still are.

I do not understand the DND (whatever that is) bashing AIA though.
Maybe mine will break tomorrow, but so far, so good.

Simple solution would be to issue them like this.
(With a newer scope over the Weaver V-8 on mine.)



Just talk the Aussies into having both this one and the .308 they were making brought back into production, or brought up to their specs.



Since the carbine is the SK caliber, the Canadians could just strip ammo off the Russian troopers that surrender and the short barrel would come in handy for doing a
bulkhead to bulkhead search of captured Russian Nuclear Missile boats.

Seriously, if Colt Canada could get rights and equipment to build rifles like shown in the OPs link
http://www.casr.ca/mp-enfield.htm
then I will send in the dough to get one with the blue stock ordered now.
I like the iron sight capability on it better than the brown stocked one.

JT

By "SK" I assume you are meaning the SKS rifle? Also the Russians wouldn't be carrying very much 7.62x39mm these days. The standard service rifle is now the AK-74M, which is a 5.45x39mm gun. Also 7.62x39mm would be a poor choice for the Canadian Rangers. Not enough power for hunting larger game or defending against something like a bear.

For these people, a heavy tactical sniper rifle is exactly what they DON'T need. As many others have mentioned, the purpose of their rifles is for hunting and self defense against wildlife. They are essentially used as a survival rifle and are expected to be carried everywhere in harsh terrain. A lightweight, handy, decently powerful rifle chambered in .308/7.62x51mm NATO with good accuracy is what the Rangers need.

 

[Scrumbag]

I'd have thought Savage are missing the trick on this one.

Their chance to develop their existing .308 bolt action to have 22" bbl, rail for optics and barrel irons, synthetic / laminate stock, as much stainless as possible and adapt it to run off AI / M14 / AR-10 mags which ever suits. They sell a few thousand to the Canadians and they have a concept to sell to lots of other people as well in competition to the Ruger GSR.

If not built in Canada, I'm sure they could assemble it at their plant? Ideally it would be quite modular with interchangeable, off the shelf parts...

Just my 2c...

 

[Scooter22]

This would work. They make it in .308 now.
http://www.mossberg.com/product/rif...mvp-series-mvp-patrol-mvp-patrol-scoped/27731