.22 Bolt.

**read6737** · 03-09-2017 11:58 AM

Just bought this .22 Bolt. I think it is for a No7 but not sure,

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**read6737** · 03-09-2017 12:02 PM

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Am I right in thinking it is for a No7?

**30Three** · 03-09-2017 01:56 PM

If it's the one that's been on Naturabuy for a while; I think you'll find it's for a .22 No5 trials rifle. I had a look at that and after searching a bit in Skennerton icon

's book and posting on this sight, that's what we came up with.
Now you've got to find one of the 105 built and you'll be a happy bunny! Does it have any numbers on it?
It's certainly interesting to find out how it ended up in France icon

**tr63** · 03-09-2017 01:59 PM

It looks a British icon

No 7 .22 trainer bolt , missing the left hand side extractor . The only other bolt that looks close would be the British No 8 bolt what is the length of the bolt head ?

**30Three** · 03-09-2017 02:05 PM

It's no where near the No8 bolt; (I have two No8's) Look at page 297 in Skennerton icon

's "The Lee Enfield" book.
It has a photo of the .22 No5 trials, No7 and No8 bolt's compared. The chamfer on the front of the bolt head is the obvious difference.

**read6737** · 03-09-2017 02:46 PM

Interesting.
I do happen to know where one of the N°5 .22s is, and it is not too far from me in France icon

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Still with matching N° mag,
My friend went into Fultons one day years ago and they had one or two in the back, got them out and one had his N° 5 mag, so they swaped them over.
He know I want to buy it, but he is saving it till he retires and needs the money.

**Peter Laidler** · 03-09-2017 02:50 PM

Maybe someone who has one of each of these rifles ought to write a short paper with important dimensions/lengths so that it is recorded for posterity. As it is we STILL don't know what this bolt is from do we?

**tr63** · 03-09-2017 04:09 PM

If the poster will measure the bolt head it would help a great deal as to what it goes to. The No. 7 is 2 3/16'' in length more or less the No.8 1s 1 3/8'' more or less .

**tr63** · 03-09-2017 04:24 PM

If the poster will measure the bolt head it would help a great deal as to what it goes to. The No. 7 is 2 3/16'' in length more or less the No.8 1s 1 3/8'' more or less . It looks like there is a left side extractor which is retained with a screw . The No. 8 doesn't use 2 extractors and there is no slot cut for the second extractor .

**Peter Laidler** · 03-09-2017 05:13 PM

That second 'extractor' on the UK icon

No7 isn't really an extractor as such, even though someone in their wisdom decided to call it one. It doesn't extract anything! All it is, is a supporting arm thinggy that ensured that the spent case remains against the bolt face until it's time for the case to strike the ejector. The case strikes the ejector, simultaneously the support thinggy lets go, case swings about the opposite rim and out onto the floor. If you remove that support thinggy, the case lands on top of the next round in the mag - or somewhere else downwards and you've got the makings of a jamb. No need for this guff on the No8 because you have a loading plate with an inbuilt ejector

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