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Posted: 5/27/2005 10:11:15 PM EDT
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Guy & Gals, I was cleaning my enfields (No4Mk1) gettin ready to go to the range tomorrow and noticed something that I've never noticed before. When re-assembling the bolts I noticed that when I screwed the bolt head on the body the last 3/4 turn engaged the striker and pushed the striker back. What this means is that when the trigger is pulled the striker flange will bottom out on the bolt head. I always thought that the cocking piece bottomed out at the rear of the bolt body to stop the striker. Is this correct? I'll restate my question: Does the striker flange abutment with the bolt head stop the forward movement of the striker? I also read that the difference between bolt heads was 0.003" but I've checked my #3 to #2 and #1 to find that the difference is 0.005". Has anyone else measured the difference and what should it really be? Thanks for your input... Regards, FreeBore |
Yep this is normal, I would not be worried about it, it dosent pierce primers, and it fires ok, leave it alone ;). ie the fireing pin protrudes the correct amount. I would suggest looking here http://www.gunboards.com/forums/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=44 for good info on Enfields. They are a great rifle, got off 26 rds in 30 sec all on tgt at 100mts, reliable, accurate, and what you hit stays hit. Check the head space, if its ok, leave it, if your reloading only neck size the brass, and keep the brass for that rifle, and you will get many reloads out of the brass, im up to 7th onwards without annealing the neck yet on some test pieces. Anyway I think any enfield owner should have a look at the above link, and get reading ;) h |
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