Thread: Enfield barrel on a Martini and vice versa

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings Tommygun,
I believe that the threads are the same but the case rim is rebated into the barrel on the Martini but not on the Lee Enfield. This means that the Martini barrel would need to have been faced of at the breech, to remove the rebate, and the chamber re cut. Otherwise the extractor wouldn't have been able to reach the rim. More work would be required to put it back on the Martini now. An option for your martini action would be to pick up a take out .308 target barrel and fit and chamber it for the .30-30 or .30-40 Krag. It would have to be cut of at the breech to get rid of the chamber and leade. This is what I have on my Martini. A friend did the work for me so it was low cost but for a gunsmith to do the work you may not save much in a new barrel.
Regards Grandpamac.

Thanks. That's what I feared/suspected. It's a shame someone decided to do that to an artillery carbine barrel just to have a shorter barrel on their bolt gun for Bush hunting, better ways to accomplish that IMO.