Another highly specific question which may be nothing.

This mismatched MKIII I have seems to have its front sights canted to the left off of dead centre. The barrel being unnumbered does not bother me as the rest seems mismatched too, but this barrel seems off. A perfect chance to test my angle measuring whats-a-ma-jig.

I know there is some debate as to where to measure the angle of the reciever from so I tried both across the channel behind the charger bridge and then the flat on top of the reciever ring as 'Normal', and then the flat across the knox as the barrel angle.

I tried this mismatched Lithgowicon MKIII (Which appears off) and compared that to my matching BSA MKIII (Which appears fine).

The mismatched Lithgow angles on the reciever ring and across the channel seemed to match, but the barrel was slightly off, but in the opposite direction it appears to be when you look at it just with the eye.

The BSA I could only measure across the channel as the finish made it slippery and the wearing on the reciever ring made it near impossible to balance my angle device on. Then the barrel seemed to be only slightly off and in the same direction as the mismatched rifle.

As someone who wants to work on Enfields and understand things like this I ask: Am I looking too hard at it, or is this mismatched one at the wrong angle and need to to be screwed on further (It should still headspace fine with only this slight adjustment)?

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