{"id":22130,"date":"2023-03-24T00:50:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T05:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/24\/7-62mm-lee-enfield-no-4-l8-sterling-conversion-low-shooting-an-experiment\/"},"modified":"2023-03-24T00:50:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T05:50:43","slug":"7-62mm-lee-enfield-no-4-l8-sterling-conversion-low-shooting-an-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/24\/7-62mm-lee-enfield-no-4-l8-sterling-conversion-low-shooting-an-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"7.62mm Lee-Enfield No.4 (L8 \/ Sterling Conversion) Low Shooting: An Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CcXKJRL3IQg?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s well-documented that the light-barrel L8 and Sterling 7.62mm (.308 Win) Lee-Enfield No.4 conversions shot low compared to .303&#8243; to the point they couldn&#8217;t be zeored with the normal front sight set, and a lowered datum line rear sight was the solution. This is due to the difference in &#8220;jump&#8221; with the new cartridge. I wanted to see what would happen if we put some NATO ball and 303-approximate loads through my Sterling conversion and my L39 to see if it was simply the bullet weight and velocity doing it. What did we discover?<\/p>\n<p>Utreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/blokeontherange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/blokeontherange<\/a><br \/>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><br \/>Teespring: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blokeontherange\/<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s well-documented that the light-barrel L8 and Sterling 7.62mm (.308 Win) Lee-Enfield No.4 conversions shot low compared to .303&#8243; to the point they couldn&#8217;t be zeored with the normal front sight set, and a lowered datum line rear sight was the solution. This is due to the difference in &#8220;jump&#8221; with the new cartridge. I&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/24\/7-62mm-lee-enfield-no-4-l8-sterling-conversion-low-shooting-an-experiment\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7.62mm Lee-Enfield No.4 (L8 \/ Sterling Conversion) Low Shooting: An Experiment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":22131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}