Help - stuck bolt on a No 1 Mk3

[Peter Laidler]

But back to where we came in........ What was the cause of the stuck bolt?

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[Florey55]

But back to where we came in........ What was the cause of the stuck bolt?

My Enfield incompetence mainly - and I think this - "If you have the rifle cocked and with the bolt shut down and you pull the trigger while holding the cocking piece back you can let it move forward just a little, then let the trigger go and the cocking piece will sit at half-cock, which locks the bolt and the trigger. As tiriaq said you need to pull the cocking piece back to full cock in order to unlock the gun."