Lee Loader

Received good news today, my #4 MKI is on its way back to Texas and is now a like new scout rifle.





This rifle came to me as a partial trade as an owner butchered sporter. It had spent its life as a truck gun/hog killer on a Texas ranch. Once I got all the gunk out of the barrel, I suspect it had never been cleaned, it was an incredible shooter.

It has been gone a year and a half but will be worth the wait as Robert Bose has always delivered a fine product. The work was:

• Manganese parkerize metal
• Cut & crown barrel
• Install ramped front sight regulated for the SMLE flip peep sights
• Install XS SMLE scout scope mount
• Fit ATI synthetic stock
• Fiberglass buttstock for recoil pad mount (stock is hollow).
• Install Decelerator recoil pad
• Mount scope & boresight

Good lookin' rifle.

Make smoke,

Sweeeeeeeeeeetttttttttttt......

looks amazing

Thanks, guys! Really looking forward to shooting this Scout.

nice!!!!!

Didn't get a chance to take the rifle out until Saturday. I had a few rounds that I had loaded with for my sporterized No. 5, about the only thing I can get that rifle to shoot, so I grabbed them and went up to the range. Didn't take long to sight in the No. 4 at 100 yards.



The first round was the high hole, I just turned a "handful" of negative elevation and shot another, which is the hole about 2" low. I was like "sweet," so I counted the positive clicks up. The third shot was a bullseye, so I raised the POI an inch and put three through the same hole one-inch high. I had a couple of old hard drives hanging on a wire and sent a hole through them. That left me with two rounds, which I thought I ought to save just in case I could find a hog to shoot. Here is the load.



Took the rifle out this morning. Had some hogs come to a feeder while it was still dark, just black silhouettes against the gold grass, about 80 yards out. Put the crosshairs on one, at the shot the sounder went into the heavy brush. I thought I would wait about an hour to see if a doe would come out as I have some managed land permits and one round of ammo left, an important ingredient in a hog/venison sausage recipe mix! A couple of bucks came out and would stare at the brushline the hogs had moved into, so I knew he was down. I waited about an hour, and just inside the brushline, I figured out what the bucks had been looking at. The coyotes had eaten half my hog, rookie mistake on my part. I never heard them.

Very nice job on the rifle. Is it a Long Branch or one of the ones made in Britain? I gave away my LB #4 many years ago. Bought it out of a stack of them at a Sears store. Think I paid less than $50.

Macd wrote:Very nice job on the rifle. Is it a Long Branch or one of the ones made in Britain? I gave away my LB #4 many years ago. Bought it out of a stack of them at a Sears store. Think I paid less than $50.

Thanks, it is a Matby of West Yorkshire. It had been crudely sporterized but a very accurate shooter so I decided to give it a facelift that suited its performance.

Ranch Dog wrote: The first round was the high hole, I just turned a "handful" of negative elevation and shot another, which is the hole about 2" low. I was like "sweet," so I counted the positive clicks up. The third shot was a bullseye, so I raised the POI an inch and put three through the same hole one-inch high.

Nice! Nothing like an accurate rifle that comes together quickly like that. You deserve it after all the No. 5 put you through.