L42/Enforcer Ammunication

[Roger Payne]

Third time?? He clearly bears a charmed life.....

[Alan de Enfield]

Third time?? He clearly bears a charmed life.....

Definition of insanity (Albert Einstein) : "doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result"

[limpetmine]

Ye-gads, man. Must be a dyslexic reloader. Needs to take up knitting as a hobby.

I did hear about one incident lately at our range where an individual blew up his rifle, was his third time they said. Don't have any idea what he'd done.

[Gil Boyd]

Have to say, thats sounds to me like stupidity three times with the same issue. Perhaps he needs to invest in a crossbow...................ah maybe not, he'll probably make an arrow out of a full grown tree, and try and shoot it

When I am duty Range Officer, I always check weapons before they are unpacked and also ask those that reload if they are happy with their bondook! No different to an Armourer who pulls the working parts back as he passes you your weapon out of any Military armoury and you then check that it is clear too!!

[GeeRam]

Last weekend, one of our club members who shoots with another club as well, showed us the photos from a couple of months ago at his other club of the remnants of his 7.62 Parker Hale, and the bloody hand and face shoots when it blew up on him.
Case failure from reloading brass too many time he thinks......first time he's had a problem in 40 years of re-loading he said

I was supervising a young probationer a couple of years ago during a club gallery shoot and the old guy to his right had his Marlin lever action blow up on him, and it really put off the young lad (was ex-Cadet Forces) and he never came again. We were double tapping in 3 sec exposures on this detail, and the guy had clearly got distracted reloading and not put any powder in a round, and the primer fired the bullet about 6 inches down the barrel, and he didn't twig the sound change before cycling another 'good' round into the chamber and firing and blew the top of the barrel apart like a can opener.

[Enfield Enforcer]

Thanks everyone,

In concretizing the ammo trouble here: we receive in CH - not since a really long time - in the bulletweight until 150 gr only the really expensive Norma 150 gr Jaktmatch .308 Win. This is a hunting Match Load, I know the .30-06 Springfield-Example. A good cartridge in my Winchester M 1895 Grade I, but an Lee-Enfield Enforcer or an L42 A1 are something really different.
Earlier we had a bit of MEN .308 Win. 147 gr Mandalay-Match and MEN 7,62 mm 147 gr Sniper - but that stuff has all gone.. Already 20-25 Years ago.. I didn't use my two boxes of them until now, Collectors-Ammo..

Vintage Hunter: Thanks ! PSI- and Loading Data, that's what i really need.

30three: this differences for the 52'000 CUP-Calibers are not only a bit odd :-) , the are annoying. Therefore I'm asking - not reloading without care. I'm a bit surprised, that this still can be as unclear as it is after all this years of use. I own my Enforcer now since 28 Years and it should stay alive for as many years more as possible.. I didn't shoot it often. The test in a German Gunmagazine 1992 mentioned beside 147 gr-Ammo as well as 168 gr MEN- and Norma-Matchloads and Reloads with 168 gr SMK and Lapua 185 gr D46, too. Accuracy was from 18 mm, 21 and 27 until 52 mm for 5 Shots at 100 Meters, by the way. That means 0,708-2,047-inch-groups. Really impressive, I found
I'm in contact with the Magazine-Team, for getting as much as possible ammo-experience and reloading-tips, too..

Have all a good evening
Best regards
Enfield Enforcer

[Bindi2]

GeeRam case head separation dose not blow up rifles. I have had it with first time fired brass in generous LE chambers. It was poor quality brass made to minimum SAAMI specs. Binned that lot. Also had it in many times fired cases. Blow ups are caused by barrel obstruction, wrong powder (to much of too fast) or secondary explosion not enough powder. The bullet is the safety valve when it stops moving the next weakest part moves or the pressure builds too quickly for the valve to move enough to reduce the pressure.
Crimping will also cause case head separation when loads are on the upper end .
Running a loaded round into a body die with the wrong depth shell holder.
The list goes on.

[Alan de Enfield]

A squib load can cause 'catastrophic failure' when the next round is fired.
I seem to remember that it is thought to be the reason for this :-

November 2019 - "I'm sure a bit of duct tape will sort it"

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[browningautorifle]

He clearly bears a charmed life

Perhaps he did but the man beside him didn't. There were serious injuries sustained to an onlooker. Individual offender was banished and a letter sent to surrounding clubs to warn them he would be looking to join.

[Bindi2]

A d E Perfect example of secondary explosion.