Gallery of Dramas. Broken Enfield Parts!

[Story]

Interesting, thanks.
Anyone rebuilding a .22LR Trainer?

[jmoore]

I believe this qualifies as a "drama" which includes broken parts. But it's more of a "man caused disaster" than anything else:

An explosively dismantled Enfeld

A photographed aftermath of firing an Enfield with a hole drilled through both sides of the chamber and then concealed by a fore stock and handguard. Some rehashing of the DP subject well covered in other threads.

[jmoore]

Here's a link to a thread showing a Savage with a badly mauled bolt head guide. Somewhat unintentionally shown on artyldr01's part, but it's a great example. More photos on his thread:

Savage No 4 Mk1/3 with red paint?

[Brit plumber]

When I did my Small Arms maintainer training about 18 years ago, we were shown a video clip of a No.4 firing a round filled with explosive, it was a demonstration of the difference between 'detonation' of a high explosive and the burning of a low explosive, has anyone seen this vid or have a link to a online clip. It will impress everyone if I can find it.

[tiriaq]

With respect to the sheared off lug in the bolt's cocking piece cam track - if the cocking piece is placed in half cocked position, and enough force is applied to the bolt handle in an attempt to open it, either that little lug, or the corresponding lug on the cocking piece will fail.
I have seen a number of broken off bolt handles on a variety of rifles - M98 and M96 Mausers, M700 Remingtons, in addition to Lee Enfields. If the bolt cannot rotate (rust on the bolt sleeve threads being the most common reason in the case of the Mausers and Remingtons), and if enough force is applied, the handle will snap. On the Remington, the handle may break mid shank, or the brazed joint peeled. On the Mausers, the bolt handle will be broken out at the root, taking part of the bolt body with it.