Alan, Even though I think the info is either bogus or overly a CYA article, thanks for posting it.

While I wasn't the first in my area to shoot a L-E in mil-surp competition, I attended enough for other shooters to become aquainted with me and my L-Es. There was a notion that L-Es will fly apart with the least bit of encouragement. That has been corrected in my small corner of the world simply by how well I did (usually okay), nothing blew up and letting them fire my rifles afterwards.

All in all I'll pit my inferior two piece stocked, weak actioned L-Es against any mil-surp in the world, and that includes my 'overly stressed' L42A1.

Brad

PS There have been a couple of POFicon rounds go through the Mk.2 that made a 7.62 NATO round in the L42 feel like a .22 short and actually brought tears to my eyes without any damage whatsoever (is that one word?).

PPS Okay, there was a bit of a struggle to remove the empty cases.