I picked this up two days ago..have not shot it yet, built on an Enterprise receiver (Irwingdale)
It was priced right, and appears to be in good nick.
Anyone had any problems with these receivers?
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I picked this up two days ago..have not shot it yet, built on an Enterprise receiver (Irwingdale)
It was priced right, and appears to be in good nick.
Anyone had any problems with these receivers?
Is there a small "ABNI" stamped in the area of the locking shoulder?
Early Entreprise receivers were made by an aerospace machine shop called ABNI in Buena Park, California. They are identified by either a Buena Park address for Entreprise or the small "ABNI". They seem to be highly regarded, much more so than most of Entreprise's later in-house-made receivers.
No relief cut under the rear sight...I missed that.
All of the Buena Park/ABNI receivers were Australian pattern. The vast majority of Entreprise's in-house inch receivers were Australian pattern as well...in later years they advertised a British cut version, but by then their reputation was so bad either few were ordered or most buyers never got them.
Remind me.... relief cut where? The only one I can see that's missing is the gap between the top front face of the body and the TMH. That was to prevent the recoil snapping/cracking that bit of wood away. When it did it was a simple fix but the small gap prevented it. DON'T use a hack saw as that'll remove the phosphating. Just remove the butt and file back the wood
Nope, it was a general fix to cure a problem. They'd inevitably crack rearwards if the TMH was hard up against the butt., Simple to fix. Just remove the butt a couple of pegs dowelled and glued downwards, glue the crack and then filke away so the the wood was clear of the top edge of the TMH. The butt must touch inside the housing of course but it won't split there because it's well supported. Later butts had reinforcing wood inserted downwards from new
C1s (at least the later C1A1 furniture) may not have had that problem. Early Canadian furniture followed the Australian pattern...the later C1A1 stocks did not have the wood narrow down into that thin section at the top. Looking at mine, they may also have followed British practice and inserted the slip-patches at the factory.