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    How do I present a full cleaning kit with Enfield Rifle

    I just bought a full unisued enfield oiler / cleaning kit, how did these go? did everything get wrapped up inside the tube or do the cloths and mesh pads go around the oiler inside the buttstock compartment? thanks in advabce.
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    Kit includes: Oiler, with Spoon, Rope Pull-thru, Cleaning Gauze (Wire Mesh (3) pcs.) , Brass Weight, and cleaning cloth flanelette. I dont think the link is working.

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    EnfieldNutt84, Like this?

    Whoops, having trouble with photobucket...I'll try later.

    AFIK, these were issued with (T) rifles and No.5 carbines...I stand to be corrected.

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    If you get one and the pull-through becomes unwrapped, here you go ...

    How to wrap an Enfield pull-through

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    Suppose I should look for the green Tin box for the Flannels and Steel Swabs, or is there some other ingenious brilliant english solution to carrying these onboard? thanks for the posts.

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    Would the Savage Marked oiler originally be Blued Steel or Likewise Grey Parkerized like the Metal on the Gun and Bayonet?

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    This link wil show how to stow the kit in the butt stock: ANCILLARY ENFIELD EQUIPMENT Page 2

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    You can store the oilier and pull-through in the butt stock. There are several other items that fit in the cleaning category.

    The oilier can be brass, brown, black over even clear plastic. There are chamber cleaning sticks (technical term) flannel rolls. I still want to get one of the small tin boxes I see listed as No4 cleaning kits.

    The oil bottle is good to store a spare extractor, spring and broken shell extractor.


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    If you have a No4 or No5 rifle, then everything stays in the tin.... I'm fairly sure that even in WW1 most soldiers switched to keeping the cleaning kit in their webbing. Thats most likely how the tin came to be issued in the first place - the old ones are literally painted tobacco tins.

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