Striker Boing ?

[Thunderbox]

Lock time effects accuracy, a 50 year old + worn firing pin spring that rubs the inside of the bolt will greatly effect accuracy. A new spring decreases lock time and promotes better accuracy.

Ten rounds 50 yards



5 rounds, 50 yards PH-5C sight





I'm not looking for just "serviceable!" and enough force to ignite a primer, I'm looking for faster lock times and accuracy. If just going "bang" is good enough for you or anyone else and your not concerned with improving accuracy then go ahead and use these weaker springs.

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Ed,

With these pictures, are you trying to explain that losing one coil of your striker spring caused your POI to move laterally by about 6 minutes? If so, the group size appears to be about the same and hence rather undermines your theory about accuracy.

If these two pictures are nothing to do with striker springs, why post them?


If you have a good hold & shooting technique, then its perfectly possible to shoot good groups even with click-bang ammo, where the de facto "lock time" (primer, rather than spring) may be half a second or more.....

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[Edward Horton]

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Ed,

With these pictures, are you trying to explain that losing one coil of your striker spring caused your POI to move laterally by about 6 minutes? If so, the group size appears to be about the same and hence rather undermines your theory about accuracy.

If these two pictures are nothing to do with striker springs, why post them?


If you have a good hold & shooting technique, then its perfectly possible to shoot good groups even with click-bang ammo, where the de facto "lock time" (primer, rather than spring) may be half a second or more.....

I didn't loose a coil from my striker spring, the very tip of the spring just slightly longer than 1/16 of an inch broke off and wedged in a coil of the spring and was dragging and cutting into the striker. (Dragging and slowing down the striker)



What I'm really trying to get across is you will not know or find out anything until the bolt has been dissembled and inspected. Below is just one more example of what could be wrong, this striker spring was causing more than a few misfires. The tip of the striker spring broke and finally jammed fast to the striker and locked up tight.



The targets you are referring to were fired one day apart and the only difference was the addition of the PH-5C and moving the group to the left and into the X-ring.

My main point to you Thunderbox and the rest of the British in this forum is very simple. The U.S. does NOT have the strict inspection and proofing requirements and standards that the U.K. has. Our Enfields here in the U.S. are sold as Antiques and Curios and under law are not required to have any inspections done to them before sale.

Below is a extreme case BUT this No.5 Enfield from Malaysia was sold by the American importer as you see it below, no inspection, no proofing, NOTHING





I will say it again, if my Enfield misfired my bolt would be dissembled faster than you could say marmite on toast.

As a side note my cocking piece angle is at 17 degrees, the sear contacts over 95% of the surface of the cocking piece bent, my bolt has a new striker spring and my trigger is slicker than snot on a door knob.