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Square butt problems in 1940!
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04-10-2011 01:31 AM
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Part of a post by Peter Laidler (March 2008)
"......We still had thousands of No1 rifled in Cadet service in the 60's and 70's but after that they were whittled right down. All(?) were modified by fitting No4 stock bolts or grinding the square portion off and plugging the plate hole in the rear of the fore-end.........."
Mine are not the best, but they are not too bad. I can think of lots of Enfields I'd rather have but instead of constantly striving for more, sometimes it's good to be satisfied with what one has...
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Hi Roger, Must be missing something but all the Smle`s that I have still have the square shank still attached.
Stuart.
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Square pegs and round holes,
The good old boys at Horsley park gun shop had heaps of the SMLEs with the square bolts back in the 90s. To which they proceeded to take old stocks off and put synthetic on. The problem they had with a lot of them was that when removing the but they would unscrew the bolt whilst the stock was still attached. They would then put the buts and stocks in a big bucket for later sale, unfortunately most of the stocks were broken due to there inherant lack of care!
Oh the humanity!!
Regards
Fergs