Lee Speed - now mine

[awo425]

Hello fellows,

Maybe you remember my post bout shooting the Lee Speed(LE Mk I) of my friend Swen.
Now the rifle is mine and I did a complete checkup and cleaning:




Only problem now, it has no cleaning rod.
Can anybody provide some pictures and measurements, because I would like to make a replica?

Chris

[dromia]

Nice looking rifle.

Is it Metford rifling?

It was called a clearing rod on these not a cleaning rod, if I have time I'll photgraph one of mine but no promises.

[awo425]

It has a very nice 5 groove Enfield type barrel, slugging at .313" groove and .306" land.

Shot it yesterday with some handloads on a rather dark range, so I did only 6 shots(180grn .311" Sierra Prohunter, 41grn N140)


Chris

[awo425]

BTW, can anybody explain the rearsight slider without v notch?

[awo425]

I was to the range today, the rifle needed some shots to get settled down as I cleaned the barrel very well

Than I tried S&B factory ammo(uses BT bullets of 180grn) and later again my handloads with 180grn Prohunter:



Not bad for such an old shooting iron!

Chris