C.L.L.E I* issues

[savagefellow]

Recently aquired a C.L.L.E I*, converted at Enfield in 1909. My issue is that when you pull the trigger slowly, it usually hangs up on the half cock notch. When the trigger is pulled smartly, there is no issue. Any causes or remedies?
Question two, the dreaded DP question. This rifle is stamped DP over EY. Literally one atop the other. I know what both of these stamps mean, but were these older rifles DP'd for age and obsolecence, or only for mechanical issues? It seems in better mechanical shape than many a SMLE I've fired (after a thorough going over). I'd post pictures, but my cameras memory card is acting up, so no pictures until after I get to the store for a new one.
Thanks in advance gentlemen,
Mike Pearson

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[Sht_LE]

Have a L.E. Mk.I that had the same problem when I first got it. It was caused by a worn sear. I replaced the sear and it was as good as new. Unfortunately that was many years ago when you could get a sear from Springfield Sporters, not sure wear you could get a new one now. However if it is not badly worn stoning it might solve the problem.

Without looking at the rifle I am not sure why it would be marked EY and then DP, but I have similar thinking to yours in that it was an older arm. I own a 1944 dated Ishapore SMLE MK.III* that is DP marked on just about every part that you can imagine and it looks like it was just made (even has all matching numbers). I took it apart and could find nothing wrong wrong with it at all (the bore even gauges as new). As far as I can tell the only thing that makes it a DP rifle is the stamps all over it, but it shoots accurately.

[Alan de Enfield]

As far as I can tell the only thing that makes it a DP rifle is the stamps all over it, but it shoots accurately.

Risky !!!!!!!!

[gsimmons]

Please read the threads on DP and ZF rifles!

[savagefellow]

If I did try it it would be with reduced loads and not often. I'm familiar with DP's and all their dangers, I've read all of the threads. I was just curious as to whether rifles of a certain age were DP'd simply because of age.
Thanks,
Mike

[Sht_LE]

Not too risky, because I inspected EVERYTHING in detail and being a gunsmith had the right tools to do it. In detail I took it compleatly apart (I even pulled the barrel) then visably inspected everything. I magnafluxed the action body, bolt, bolt head and barrel and did another inspection. Then I used a borescope and checked out the inside of the barrel, reassembled it set the headspace and gave it to a friend of mine who is also a gunsmith. I asked him to go over it and see if he could find anything wrong with it. He could not. So after we both inspected it I shot five rounds of PPU ammo through it that was remote fired. When that did not blow it up I fired five rounds off a bench. It put them inside 3" at 100 yards. So far that is the only ammo it has fired and that has been several years ago. It actually came in to the gunstore I work in a lot of five rifles we ordered from Century Arms. It was the only one that was DP marked and I never could figure out why it was DP marked, but the owner of the store did not want to sell it to a customer so let me have it at cost.