Crocodile Dundee Rifle
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Forum Name: Ishapore Enfields
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Topic: Crocodile Dundee Rifle
Posted By: Arminius
Subject: Crocodile Dundee Rifle
Date Posted: December 23 2018 at 2:17pm
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he!!o to all! I ALWAYS wanted a "Crocodile Dundee Style" rifle. Now the original seems to be a cut down ( sporterized" ) Mil Enfield 4. Which has the advantage of already being equipped with a peep sight, and therefore a long sight line. What do you think of an Ishapore, with a fitted spare mag, with a two piece rifle stock: http://www.championtarget.com/shooting_gear/twopieceriflestock.aspx" rel="nofollow - http://www.championtarget.com/shooting_gear/twopieceriflestock.aspx and with a P - H Diopter? Uses .308, Mauser stripper clips, 12 rd mag and should last for a long time. Or get a near new Enfield Mark 4 ( which one? ), >perhaps a P - H Diopter<, and Enfield stripper clips and commercial .303 SP ammo? ( PRVI Partizan, Sellier & Bellot ) Thanks in Advance, Hermann
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Posted By: Arminius
Date Posted: December 29 2018 at 1:56pm
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After searching the net, I seem to be not the only one, who wants one. Here´s the Original ( with thumb hole stock, I´m shocked, SHOCKED, I say! )  ------------- Certified gun nut Guns. Also classy Women, good beer and fine wines. Did I mention guns? Lots of guns. A man can never have enough ammunition, books and booze. |
Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: December 30 2018 at 6:50am
| Watch every part of the movie where this rifle us used. Paul Hogan never puts his thumb in the hole. I'm speaking of course about the rifle not the blonde. I can cover that in the OT Forum... |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: December 30 2018 at 7:32am
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Just where is "MiddleofEurope"? Could you clarify that? ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: December 30 2018 at 8:48am
| Right between Eastern and Western Europe? Just below Northern and above Southern Europe? That would be my guess. |
Posted By: Arminius
Date Posted: December 30 2018 at 9:03am
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Posted By: Arminius
Date Posted: December 30 2018 at 9:05am
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At first, I also could not believe it. Gun really SHOULD look like:  ------------- Certified gun nut Guns. Also classy Women, good beer and fine wines. Did I mention guns? Lots of guns. A man can never have enough ammunition, books and booze. |
Posted By: Arminius
Date Posted: December 30 2018 at 9:07am
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Location? Yes - in the middle: from the North Cape to Sicily - approx in the middle from Atlantic coast of Ireland to Moscow - approx in the middle ;-) ------------- Certified gun nut Guns. Also classy Women, good beer and fine wines. Did I mention guns? Lots of guns. A man can never have enough ammunition, books and booze. |
Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: December 30 2018 at 9:09am
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Good one, Goosic!! ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: December 30 2018 at 11:18am
| I have currently made exactly two thumbhole stocks for an Enfield. I contacted the original designer of the one Hogan is holding in the picture and he mailed me a 80% finished stock set. After finishing the first one and completing my own two. I have come to this conclusion. It's not worth the time nor the effort. The thing will still kick the snot out of you when you squeeze the trigger. Coincidentally, that is why Paul Hogan is keeping his thumb out of the hole. It almost broke his thumb. The man who designed that stock is no longer with us as he passed away years ago. It might look good to some,I actually do like the look myself but, it's not practical and you will not gain the shooting feature a thumbhole stock provides... |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: December 30 2018 at 2:10pm
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Was that Geoff Slee? ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: December 30 2018 at 2:12pm
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Middle of Europe? What used to be the Czechoslovakia? Area? Apologies, other side of the river.  I had a grand time there back a while. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: December 30 2018 at 2:17pm
Yes it was...
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Shamu wrote:Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: December 30 2018 at 2:25pm
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OK that sorts my problem then. I also wanted the thumbhole stock. I guess I'll stick with "Ernie" as he is.  Being built on a no5 barreled action it can be quite "spicy" as it is!  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Arminius
Date Posted: January 02 2019 at 3:43pm
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A thumbole stock … is a solution looking for the problem … or a problem looking for a solution. Thumbhole and quick cycling is a contradiction! If I want and use an Enfield, I want to repeat FAST! ( same for in line repeaters .. now with more and more thumbhole stocks - morons, I say ) A thumbhole stock is a fashion trend, and as useful as tits on a bull, with a bolt action rifle. Ok, grip angle is better ( pistol grips on a ( semi auto ) rifle ARE better ), but at the price of reduced cycling speed. Just my 2 cts, Hermann ------------- Certified gun nut Guns. Also classy Women, good beer and fine wines. Did I mention guns? Lots of guns. A man can never have enough ammunition, books and booze. |
Posted By: Arminius
Date Posted: January 03 2019 at 1:14pm
Answer One: As I very much respect Hogan as an outdoorsman, or at least as a man with both legs firm on the ground of reality, I am sure he ( perhaps ) appreciated the steep grip angle of the pistol grip stock, but was well aware, that inserting his thumb in the opening would slow him down on repeating. So, as draftees who are shy of recoil, he kept his thumb on the right side of the action, out of the way. ( and out of "harms way" ). ( Cooper, IIRC recommended this. ) Hermann ------------- Certified gun nut Guns. Also classy Women, good beer and fine wines. Did I mention guns? Lots of guns. A man can never have enough ammunition, books and booze. |
Posted By: Arminius
Date Posted: January 03 2019 at 1:17pm
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Answer two: as he was married to her in reality … any finger or more involving action is not only very probable, but rather 100 % for sure, and also 100% legal.  Hermann ------------- Certified gun nut Guns. Also classy Women, good beer and fine wines. Did I mention guns? Lots of guns. A man can never have enough ammunition, books and booze. |
Posted By: OldManMontgomery
Date Posted: January 20 2024 at 1:39pm
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Is it just the lighting, or does that custom stock rifle of Dundee have a beavertail front stock? Looks a bit useless to me. Cool, perhaps, but useless. Sort of like the thumbbreaker hole. ------------- I am always ready to learn. I do not always appreciate being taught. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: January 20 2024 at 3:53pm
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He absolutely used the thumb-hole when he needs accuracy! Its a trick of the light! The rifle is a sported No4, not no5. It
has a strange "beavertail" forend, widened to the bottom for a more
flat-bottomed grip, but not with the German style "knob head" at the
front. Funnily I googled "Crocodile Dundee Rifle" & found a pic of my own "Goobermint Model Sporter!  My issue with the original was the (IMO giant) mid barrel bedding band clamping the barrel to the oversize stock!  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: January 21 2024 at 6:39am
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Here`s my Crocodile Dumdee bush gun. Take one No5 Mk1 and do a ton of surgery.  |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: January 21 2024 at 12:37pm
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Gratuitous image of the "Goobermint Model Sporter" with it 5-(yeah 7) round magazine.  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |