Bent barrels

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I was reading the E B Reynold book on the Lee Enfield and learned some interesting stuff about a 3 groove barrel they trialed but was not adopted.
The first 2 groovers of which initially were fitted to 2 No 1 MkIII's for accuracy tests which showed no loss of it so the 2 groovers were put into production.
They had a barrel that the chamber end had the knox form shrunk onto it, then had 2 pins added to hold it as well but it was found after a while the overlaying piece worked loose.
But what was really interesting they had 2 No.4's they bent the barrels on leaving the last 6" straight and tested them over a period of 2 months with no noticeable loss of accuracy from either rifle. They certainly did some different stuff.

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