A question about danger...

[Brian Dick]

Check and scrub the chamber. It could have pitting that's causing hard extraction. I recently had a guy here with a No.5Mk.1 that had a small but relatively deep ring of pitting in the chamber just behind the shoulder. No amount of polishing would eliminate the problem as the brass was expanding into the pitting making primary and secondary extraction impossible without a couple of taps with a plastic mallet. Needless to say, I couldn't fix it. It needs a new barrel.