How do I present a full cleaning kit with Enfield Rifle

[Alan de Enfield]

Alan, you make excellent points (as did madcratebuilder) but I like my oilers in original condition and will not deliberately break the spoons out of the plastic ones or de-solder the spoons from the brass ones. I do keep a broken shell extractor handy just in case but I have never needed it and never expect to, it's just a neat thing to have. Spare extractors and their springs and screws are kept at home in my shop, I don't expect them to break at the range and if one does it is not a matter of life and death, I can fold up and go home for repair, no big deal, better luck next time. I do have spare metal spoons for the brass oilers, I have repaired a couple. Maybe I should have used those to carry spare parts but the rattling that they would have made would have driven me nuts. Besides, the brass oilers don't leak and I do keep one in the but of my Longbranch and have used the oil and even the pullthrough. We just look at things differently and if what you do works for you, that's great. We have a good time and that's what counts.

As you say - each to his own.

I've never had to break the spoon off in a brass oiler - they just unscrew