Cases and Enfields and lube - Oh my!

[Edward Horton]

Patrick Chadwick

I don’t worry or have to care about excess bolt thrust, I do NOT lube or oil my cases and never plan to. I found the Excel program to calculate bolt thrust on the internet and it automatically computed these figures and I didn’t design it or need it.

I listened to someone who told me it was OK to lube my cartridge cases once and damaged a rifle when I was much younger. Between what information I have posted here in this forum I hope no one else even thinks about lubing their cases.

None of us has the test equipment to measure actual bolt thrust, therefore someone saying “I think its safe to ignore the warnings” means less than nothing.

Using the rubber o-ring method of fire forming cases and getting over 30 reloadings without lubing cases speaks for itself.

I have also shown the printed warnings for civilian and military firearms about not lubing and oiling cases. And yet some people still think they know more than the very people who do have the proper pressure measuring equipment and printed the warnings.

If you go to a bench rest shooting forum like AccurateShooter.com 6mmBR.com -- Best Guide to Precision Shooting and Precision Rifle Accuracy
you will see shooters cleaning their chambers and bores with carburetor cleaner, acetone etc. to remove any traces of oil in their chambers. They will even go as far as wiping the cases with Windex to remove oily fingerprints.

Below in 1946 Jim Sweet gave us some very good information about shooting the Enfield Rifle in his “Competitive Rifle Shooting”.

"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"
Winston Churchill







NOTICE: No Enfield's were hurt or injured during the making of this posting.

[Thunderbox]

Jim Sweet evidently didn't understand that 19t was expected to be the normal service load.....

[krinko]

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
Edmund Burke

That is all.
-----krinko

[RobD]

"Yea, those who suffered this crepuscular post on Gunboards are doomed to suffer it again on Milsurps, even unto the fourth generation".

Gnostics 1, ii lines 4-5

[Edward Horton]

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
Edmund Burke

That is all.
-----krinko

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

WikiAnswers - Did Aristotle say those who fail to study the past are doomed to repeat it

http://latta.amplify.com/2009/10/20/...ton-churchill/

Those Who Fail to Learn from History Are Doomed to Repeat It - Ask.com

[Bindi2]

There is no doubt that there are small arms designed and built using oil and grease to operate effectively. The Lee-Enfield is NOT one of them. Some people seem to think they can change the original design and or maintenance manual to suit their own ideas or whims. What you do with your own rifle is your business but ask yourself this.When your rifle blows up in your childs face learning to shoot the prosecutor will use the manual to charge you, what will your defence be. IGNORANCE

[Amatikulu]

This thread is no longer serving a useful purpose as after 13 pages of discussion, I believe that it has all been said.

This thread is now closed