Picking up on Alan and Muffet's seemingly different approaches, I'd suggest to those sitting on the sidelines, that this relevant and interesting discussion about exact inaccuracies demonstrates the essential requirement for all Enfielditis sufferers to eject two words from their vocabulary, permanently:
1. Always, and
2. Never
These two words can not be uttered with any confidence, relevance or accuracy when describing any aspect of the long and often confusing history of matters Lee Enfield.
And for the purists, let's be clear that this does include Rifles No 4, 5, 7 8 and 9 and the "L' series of 8, 39, 42 and Indian 2A.
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