Help! Misaligned Pads on No 4.

[Seaspriter]

So please, please please stay clear of enthusiastic amateurs and butchers who have absolutely no concept of the dynamics of what you hope to achieve.

After following this post, I am so relieved to have had Brian Dick do the work on my Long Branch Sniper (https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=55567 ). I had considered doing the work myself, and after reading Captain Laidler's detailed description of the job, it became quite evident I had neither the expertise nor the tools to do the job at any level that would be a world class standard. (I realized I would be characterized as one of Peter's "enthusiastic amateurs and butchers")

I mean no disrespect but for us the collectors/users of these rifles, [but] where will we go in 15/20 years people like Peter L and Brian D and others in the background are, like all of us, on a clock.

So very true CINDERS. We do need a new generation of Lee Enfield gunsmiths to carry the tradition. As you say:

Properly cared for these Enfields/Mausers/Garands/M-1's will outlast us as long as the spares allow them.

Perhaps there is an aspiring young man in Edmonton who sees himself in this role?