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Legacy Member
But of course Bindi - be my guest!
SMLE 20 round magazine if I correctly remember my lesson from the master. There was something also about India . Will have to find that note book. Time out in the corner coming up
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08-26-2014 08:33 PM
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Yes...... India initially took the the VB instead of the Bren (but not for long after seeing what she'd missed out on), but I'm not sure that the VB India took was the VB that we'd faffed about with in the trials. That was the one that took the 20 round No1 rifle magazines. The eventual VB had a curved 30 rounder that looked like the Bren but was not the same as. Anyway, that's where all of the 20 round No1 magazines went - except for our small box of 10 or so that we had at Warminster for our ex trial VB gun.
I do recall in the trials stuff that using the 20 round No1 magazines in the VB trials meant that the VB had to use spring loaded feed horns on its breech block so as to prevent the rounds in the magazine being pushed back UP, INTO the magazine against the mag spring for 4mm or so during the rearward action and then a sharp spring loaded drop DOWN, back into the pathway of the breech block and feed horns........... Anyway........... The Bren did this, so said to keep the magazine platform and guide constantly moving and thus clear fouling and maintain reliabilty
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James D. Julia, Inc. -
Another extended SMLE magazine .. I wonder what they used?
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