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    Quote Originally Posted by Roger Payneicon View Post
    I have a beaut of a matching BSA 1915 SMLE in 410 (unrestricted) & a very clean 303 smooth Winchester P'14 to sort out as well, when I get around to it!
    I have got (and had) several SMLE's and No4 LE's in 410 but have yet to find any magazine that works with them hence, are they not, by default 'single shot' ?
    Most of the ones I have seen have a wooden 'blanking plate', in place of the magazine and it is then used as a 'loading ramp'.
    The last No4 (410) I bought had a thin steel plate shaped & held in place by the trigger guard.
    The nearest I got to a working magazine was to fit (trial & error, and then 'resin' into place) a Saiga 410 magazine into the Enfield magazine (a la No7 and the BSA .22 mag)

    It worked fairly well but not consistently.
    Last edited by Alan de Enfield; 06-23-2019 at 02:55 AM.
    Mine are not the best, but they are not too bad. I can think of lots of Enfields I'd rather have but instead of constantly striving for more, sometimes it's good to be satisfied with what one has...

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