Sterling Lee Enfield 7.62NATO Conversion

[Mk VII]

I've never seen a Sterling one that worked properly; all were requiring very forceful working of the action to feed.

[villiers]

My Charnwood conversion works like a dream. I had some difficulty at first with a tight chamber that had to be reamed.

[Peter Laidler]

The Charnwood 762's weren't Sterlings though were they? They had their own clone 'Enfield' magazines remanufactured. They were hybrids in effect

[CODFan]

Well after contemplating how to proceed with this less than perfect Sterling magazine situation, one of these appeared.

Problem solved!

Attachment 67860Attachment 67861

[CODFan]

One additional question.

Was an additional magazine issued with the L42A1 kit?

[Peter Laidler]

In short, no! There really shouldn't be a shortage of L42 magazines. The 1965 contract quantity was for 60,000 - and I seem to recall that the cost was 17 shillings each!

[CODFan]

Peter,

They appear to be scarcer than .... insert your own analogy ... here.

This one I acquired from England directly.

[tr63]

read toall

[Buccaneer]

This came from Stirling Arms and was used to show their conversion kit.
The trigger was missing when I got it.

Please forgive me for going off topic and this will probably only be understood by UK readers but under the current EU deact rules is this little instructional piece "de-activated" , "defectively deactivated" or a section 5 hand gun????

[mrclark303]

Please forgive me for going off topic and this will probably only be understood by UK readers but under the current EU deact rules is this little instructional piece "de-activated" , "defectively deactivated" or a section 5 hand gun????

Well that all depends on your force area, some just love to make up their own rules!

I say instructional action, non Firearm. Some might say defectively Decativated..