Mk4 Question

[Col.Colt]

Greeting to all, , I am new to the forum. I have a about an Enfield No4 Mk1. The rifle appears to have been fired very little. It has been in storage for years. As I was inspecting it I found several gouge marks in the bottom of the chamber about an inch in . They look like punch or marks. Just wondered if anyone has seen this before and if it is anything to be concerned about?

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[Peter Laidler]

I would scrub the chamber and try to identify exactly what the marks are. Does a round slip in and out easily? What about when you fire a live round? How does it mark the case? The chamber area is pretty tough but even so, if the mark makes extraction hard or inpossible it's terminal!

[Col.Colt]

This gun has not been fired in years. I was concerned about the marks and wanted to get a little input before I tried to fire it. They almost look like they were done with a punch or something

[Peter Laidler]

Punch........ Terminal I'd say due to the hard/difficult extraction you will experience. Once the case expands into pitting or other corrosion, even the primary extraction forces won't ease it.

[Col.Colt]

they are small marks but kinda deep. What dose it take to replace the barrel?

[Peter Laidler]

Get a new barrel and read the many threads on the subject written here...............

[Col.Colt]

I was concerned if I should even try and shoot it

[Patrick Chadwick]

They almost look like they were done with a punch or something

I recently scrapped a rifle for this very reason. Anyone who follows my posts on refurbishing old rifles knows that I do not give up easily. But not even my ingenuity has found a solution for deep pitting in a chamber. And even if the cases can be extracted, but they have little pimples where the brass has been forced into the hollows, as it was with my rifle, then you know that resizing those cases will be a recipe for disaster, and I must sadly agree with Peter - it sounds like scrap.

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but kinda deep

Scrap

[ssj]

Get a gunsmith to look at it, barrels are also pretty hard to find. Ive not found one worth buying in 12mnths of looking.

[Col.Colt]

I thought I read somewhere that barrels were being reproduced?