Ideally if you have to replace the bolt or any component on your Enfield you should stick to parts made at the same arsenal as your gun, (ishapore on an ishapore, or lithgow on a lithgow) there have also been people that have used bolt and other pressure bearing parts off of DP rifles that ended up being defective, and then the gun blows up.
and the SMLE is not as good as the Lee-Metfords were. a lot of compromises in the finishing work to shit them out as fast as possible for the two wars. the Lee-Metford was almost artisanal in comparison. SMLE has the better barrel though.
Ideally you fit a new bolt via a competent gunsmith but most people won't pay for that and just gamble on it just working.
When the modern gunsmith waitlist makes you choose between winging it today or waiting five years for a screw to be tightened, people will try to do it themselves especially in the case of cheaper milsurp.
the enfield is just like the mosin in the way that institutional momentum kept them going because adopting another rifle would be to expensive or inconvenient. Also the enfield especially the no.1 MK3 never stopped being artisnal each gun requires handfitting for the forends, its has weird spring dampers for the skinny barrel, the only real simplifications where removal of stuff that was there for older style doctrine like the volly sight and magazine cut off. The real simplification wouldn't come until the No.4, the core design is literally is a compressed black powder action that just so happened to be strong enough to handle smokeless, like the Schmidt ruben/ K11.
The US was similar with the Springfield rifle. the base rifle came about in 1855, then simplified in 1861, converted to rimfire in 1865, centerfire in 1867, rebarreled in 1873 to .45-70, new sights in 1884 and remained in service until WW1.
Why is it that in every crackhead gang member gun collection there are classics that I would love to own, like a fucking Luger, a Colt 1903, shit, I'd even take a few of those Iver Johnsons mixed in there.
I wonder what ethnicity the person that had the Hakenkreuz flags is. Because it seems like all the “chuds” in California moved to Idaho
Because most of these guns are sourced from theft. They do a daylight smash and grab and scoop up anything gun-shaped in the house.
I've heard Fontana referred to as Fontucky my whole life.
this shit bothers me to no end.
ive said it before and will say it again these AWBs are heinous totalitarian level shit yet the sheltered people that support them dont even use their fucking brains when they yap on about them. it's all based on feelings "ohmygawd we have to do something!!!111!1!!!" so they latch on to the imagery and most surface level shit rather than what actually causes mass shootings and violent crime. republicans don't do shit to reverse any of this when it's already been put into place and their solutions are often just as feels based as that of the democrats.
I'm more wowed at that 10/22 with the full length safari stock.
