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  1. 05-01-2021 10:30 AM #15
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    Quote Originally Posted by DJCee73 View Post
    I just realized mine has the spring door in the butt(steel butt plate) and to my surprise there is a Mk 4 brass oil bottle and brass string pull through in there!!!
    Never say never with LE's but I'm fairly sure that Maltby's we never issued with steel butt-plates, Brass, yes.

    As far as I remember the steel butt plates were a temporary 'fix' for Long Branch (Canadianicon rifles)

    The other material used (primarily by Savage and Long Branch) was the 'pot-metal' known by various names Mazac, zamacicon or Zamak

    (ZAMAC is an acronym for the Zinc, Aluminum, Magnesium, and Copper alloy that Hot Wheels, Dinky and other pre-WW2 die-cast toy cars are cast from).
    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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