Skeletonized SMLE magazine

[Alan de Enfield]

Do you have a date for the photos? Kind of makes my heart ache.

May 2010
See the links in post #3

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

I wish I had not looked. Sad ending.

[lngstrt]

These magazines were manufactured for the No5 rifle and intended for use in the 'Jungles', the locations of the cut-aways was carefully considered to maximise the flow rate of the water during the monsoon season and avoided the possibility of 'hydraulic lock' if the chamber became full of water.

Think we'll see this quoted elsewhere as gospel in the near future?

[5thBatt]

Think we'll see this quoted elsewhere as gospel in the near future?

Lee Enfields having a inbuilt system to drain away monsoon rains entering down though the muzzle has already been quoted as gospel in another forum, Alan & I have just embellished it a bit.

[Homer]

I wish you fellas would stop picking on that other forum. I find its been great value for a laugh.

[5thBatt]

I wish you fellas would stop picking on that other forum. I find its been great value for a laugh.

Yeah Kevin, you heard the man

[Al Diehl]

I heard that this is why they put the funnel (sometimes mistakenly called a flash suppressor) on he end of the barrel. It's to help channel the water down the barrel quicker to assist in hydraulically cleaning the corrosive salts out of the barrel. That way they didn't have to carry cleaning equipment. The other holes merely helped to drain the excess.


Al