More Bad Press For The Enfield

[spinecracker]

Sounds like the contributing author has a hidden agenda. I feel a letter to the editor coming on. Alan, what was the name of the article?

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[Alan de Enfield]

You could write them a letter and tell them that the UK MoD doesn't have any record (so far as their records go nowadays) of a Lee Enfield breaking due to water on the ammunition or the rifle. You could also say that Malaya had/still has its fair share of wet weather ......, in fact it has daily monsoons that you can set your wristwatch by. In fact, monsoons to end all monsoons, that would shove big armoured Bedford QL and RL trucks off the laterite tracks with their ferocity and the little Lee Enfields seem to have behaved admirably there.

Of course, I might have been missing something but I certainly didn't keep my rifle under a groundsheet or a poncho. Maybe the editor knows something we don't know. Maybe you could ask Chris White to contact me at the Small Arms School................................

I fully intend to write a letter, asking for the source(s) of the information and pointing out that the "questionable gunsmiths" includer RSAF Enfiled and Parker Hale, and, with Peter's OK I'll certainly conclude with the offer for the author to discuss the situation with the UK's Senior Armourer

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

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I'm sure we all think there is some 'agenda' behind this information, unfortunately the shooting public will take as 'gospel' whats written in a 'quality' shooting magazine.

Sounds like the contributing author has a hidden agenda. I feel a letter to the editor coming on. Alan, what was the name of the article?

The article is titled "Wet Weather Drill"