Is this lee Enfield a no go?

[Peter Laidler]

Patrick is absolutely correct. This applies to sniper rifles too. Some l;ooked like sewer pipes and had bores as smooth as a baby's bottom - but functioned perfectly and accurately. Others, with bright and shining bores would be brought in because they just would not group and would fail the basic sniper rifle accuracy test. That's the reason why all of the barrel gauging spec that went with the old No4's and T's were slowly discarded. The only tests were the barrel viewing criteria and the bore gauge must run. Following that, if the sniper was happy and it passed the accuracy test, all was well. L96's were a problem. Occasionally one couldn't hit a barn door if you were standing inside. New barrel - and it'd still be the same. Others with seemingly shot-out barrels were prize winners. Obviously the final arbiter was firing from the Layer that eliminated all human influence