Combining a DP Enfield, a Shooter and a Gunsmith ended up with catastrophic failure!

[Old Joe]

Hello again folks and thank you for your Get Wells..

I went to go several hours ago and retrieved amung other things my DP MK3.. The Gun shop owner,a friend, was truely sick.. My Injury makes sence now ( Please understand after the bang I didn't really see the rifle.)

Someone in Demilling the Rifle removed the Barrel and drilled through the receiver, when they placed the stock back on the rifle the holes were say 60 percent obscured. Being inexsperienced with the Enfield I simply did not pick up on this. It was a beautifull rifle with a real nice bore.. As I bought the rifle the man who put them on consignment there said the reason they were so nice as the wepon was used for drill and the firing pins were removed.. A gunsmith looked them over and replaced the pins. DP was stamped every where and there was twp painted white bands on the rifle (I remember thinking it added character to the Rifle..)

Quite excited, I bought it from the shop and me and the man who owns the shop went firing the next day (I had run a brush through the Enfield the night before..nothing else).

When I fired the Enfield the the propelling gas simply used the new holes burning /blowing the top half of my thumb off along with the partial wood of the stock obscuring the hole. It is unusual that the Man had two DP Enfields at the store and the other had no such hole drilled through it.

If some one can show me I will post the pics...

Again thanks for your kind words..

Old Joe

Moderator Edit: Old Joe emailed pics and asked that we post them here for him. I've requested he try and get clearer, more focused ones, but these are a start.

Second Moderator Edit: Old Joe emailed pics better focused pics and I've those to the current ones for him.