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09-07-2015 04:50 PM
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The magazine looks like it's from an SMLE.
From the side view I always first look at the two grooves in the body pressing. More often than not if they reach all the way to the bottom plate I've found that the magazine was an SMLE type. The grooves in original No4 mags always seem to stop short of the bottom.
Not a problem as many SMLE mags were converted to fit the No.4 with the lower rear lug ground off and if it feeds and works fine that's all that matters really.
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Yes, the mag is a #1 Mk3 mag. You can see the backstrap at the bottom. Easy to change if there's a problem with function.
Last edited by browningautorifle; 09-07-2015 at 06:17 PM.
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I am telling myself the "barrel wall" is constructed of sewer pipe barrels to avoid a depression like the one I had after seing the photos of all the Japanese
rifles being dumped into Tokyo Bay.
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Watching that would make one think the ocean would have raised a foot because of all the hardware and ammo dumped into it.
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You could make a nice garden fence out of those barrels.
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Melt them and send them to China. Harbor Freight Is low on inventory.
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Just wish I knew how many different rifles an machine gun barrels there are in that wall I was a teen when i first saw it an it was only a foot high.
Finally got mag out of well i think it was stuck due to wet paint there is only 1 marking on mag that is a number 4
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A little cleaning solvent will take most rattle can paints off. MEK will too and not damage blued parts.
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Yes, the mag is a #1 Mk3 mag. You can see the backstrap at the bottom. Easy to change if there's a problem with function.
You can also see the reinforcing grooves extend to the bottom of the side walls.
The fact that the import markings are painted over tells you something mmppres. You might as well parkerize the bolt and finish the job yourself.
Nice looking wood too.
Last edited by Surpmil; 09-08-2015 at 10:54 AM.
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