You can now beat the dents out or return the sides to their original position but if you do too much, the magazine will no longer fit into the rifle. Depress the rear while leaving the front portion of the cartridge carrier up, work the front from the body and remove it along with the spring. If the follower does stick, check the magazine to see if it is dented or pressed in on one or both sides. If the shell follower moves up and down without hanging or sticking, then the only work that may be needed is proper alignment of the feed lips. The magazine probably is salvageable if it locks in tightly and releases smoothly. If yours looks like it was the target for every shell to hit the beach on D-Day, it may be beyond repair, but many of these old magazines work satisfactorily despite years of use and abuse. Anything you have ever seen done to a magazine has been tried on Enfield magazines. The MK III locking lug resembles a “saw tooth” and extends almost to the bottom of its magazine.Īs if the basic confusion isn’t enough, these magazines have also been worked on in every way the human mind can conceive. The correct magazine has a locking lug on the rear of its body, made up of a wedge-shaped piece that runs less than halfway to the base. People often try to put #1 MK III magazines into the #4 MK 1. If your rifle has feeding problems, make sure the magazine is the right one. That confusion between the two Enfield versions shows up almost from the start. For our purposes here, we’ll deal with the full military #4 MK1 because cutdown and sporterized versions are going to vary depending on who did the work. Those two rifles may look alike, but they are not the same and their parts do not interchange. This gun is one of the most common bolt-action rifles in the world, but it is also a little confusing because it looks so much like the #1 MK III. You cannot open a publication that specializes in gun sales without seeing an advertisement for a Lee Enfield rifle, especially the #4 MK1.
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