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p99guy · April 7, 2009, 02:58 PM

One possible advantage a replica No5 jungle carbine using a standard No4 Mk1 receiver has over a "real" No5...is in the wandering zero problem,the real ones had due to extra materiel being machined away from the receiver (to make it lighter in weight) Replicas made with unmodified full weight receivers
dont suffer from the Wandering zero.....the problem that caused untold problems in british service, and led to the No5 being used only a short time.

April 7, 2009, 02:58 PM	#8
p99guy Senior Member Join Date: November 4, 2004 Location: Haslet,Texas(DFW area) Posts: 1,506	One possible advantage a replica No5 jungle carbine using a standard No4 Mk1 receiver has over a "real" No5...is in the wandering zero problem,the real ones had due to extra materiel being machined away from the receiver (to make it lighter in weight) Replicas made with unmodified full weight receivers dont suffer from the Wandering zero.....the problem that caused untold problems in british service, and led to the No5 being used only a short time. __________________ Lighten up Francis!.....;Actor Warren Oats, in the movie "Stripes"