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[Prairie Fire]

Good rifle, not a bad price if you have a fair amount of 7.62 ammo laid in. The best "get-rid-of" ammo for this gun is the Chinese counterfeit RG that comes in 200 round galvanized spam cans. I'd sooner clean corrosive out of bolt guns than autoloaders.

As said already, a weak point with these rifles, is the wood. I've looked inside half a dozen and found carpet tacks being used as metal-to-wood bearing areas. Found much split wood towards the rear of the forestock, inside, small pieces splintering. These rifles are easy enough for a home hobbiest to glass-bed. The NRA pamphlet which gives good enough instructions, is probably still available from the Lairds of Fairfax.

Most of the Ishapore 2As and 2A1s that I have seen, have some cast-off on the buttstock angle, where I've not seen this with British rifles. Not sure why they were made this way. I'd pick cast off over cast on, but would prefer a buttstock laid in the same axis as the bore.

Prior to any bedding work, you might want to sweat the cosmoline out of the wood. Strip off the wood and place it in the hottest place you can think of for a couple of weeks. If you have a spare vehicle, park it facing south and put a towel on the dashboard, put the wood on that. Wipe off the grease every afternoon for a while. When you get the gun hot from shooting, you will likely still get grease out of the forestock and HGs after several years.

You might want to lay in a couple of extractor springs, available cheaply from gun parts corp. You can entertain yourself by laying specimens of those springs side-by-side and viewing the differences between them. That spring is a part I've seen as broken from the get-go in 2 of 6 rifles I've come across, so conclude that it is a part that you might want to have on hand.

The body's charging guide does take NATO strippers, a plus. I have found them to be faster in use than Enfield chargers in .303. But I imagine that this is my fault, should be able to do better with Enfield chargers.

This is a pretty good gun, I'd hop on it if you already have ammo.