Quote Originally Posted by Edward Horton View Post
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

There are no repair instructions in any Enfield manual I know of for bolt lift.

When you dry fire the Enfield Rifleicon you have the weight and mass of the cocking piece and the firing pin striking the rear of the bolt head, this along with the firing pin spring causes the bolt to lift.

When you fire a live round the firing pin strikes the primer, the blow is softened and the chamber pressure of 46,000 CUP holds the locking lugs in place preventing upward movement of the bolt.

We don’t need to reinvent the wheel or fix something that isn’t broke.





I still prefer the Attila the Hun form of diplomacy no matter what Matt and Badger said.

Personally i am not trying to fix the 'problem' of "bolt lift"

The strength of the spring seems to control the amount of lift, the weaker the spring, higher the lift.
If this is so, when someone posts they have excessive bolt lift when they dry-firing, then a reply that they may have a weak main spring is more productive than just saying "don't worry they all do that"