Whats so special

[browningautorifle]

the pressures regarding the 7.62 (308) with these builds regarding the No.1 MkIII actions

That's always been my concern about a No1 Mk3 action and a 7.62 round. Probably nothing to worry about but still...

[Brian Dick]

Ah, the RFI 2A/2A1. The illustrious "Barney Fife rifle". Here's your rifle and here's one cartridge. Please put it in your pocket! Thousands were sold here by the big importers in the 80's and 90's. The majority or them are out of spec too.

[Buccaneer]

What the builders/importers do not tell you is that the rifles when received as surplus from overseas often has a number of rifles that have bulged barrels at the muzzles from mud or debris being in the barrels as they are shot.

The above might be true for some rifles but not necessarily all as I have a RFI 2A1 "jungle carbine" that is in as new condition and is 1967 dated. As to the question in post #10 all rifles here in the UK have to pass through the proof house before being sold so at least over here we know that they have been 19T pressure tested.
I don't know if the Indian manufacture for the action changed when they converted from .303 to 7.62 but they did make a lot of them over quite a long time.....

[fjruple]

The above might be true for some rifles but not necessarily all as I have a RFI 2A1 "jungle carbine" that is in as new condition and is 1967 dated. As to the question in post #10 all rifles here in the UK have to pass through the proof house before being sold so at least over here we know that they have been 19T pressure tested.
I don't know if the Indian manufacture for the action changed when they converted from .303 to 7.62 but they did make a lot of them over quite a long time.....

I had been told that the Indians used a stronger grade of steel in their recievers to handle the pressures of the 7.62mm NATO round. I found these rifles to be most unnerving rifles I have ever shot. I would take the standard No1 MKIII .303 rifle over them any day.

--fjruple

[Peter Laidler]

The steel spec for the Indian made rifles was the same throughout. I say the same but that is not scientifically correct. However, it is correct within the metallurgical window created and allowed for in the steel mix process. Confirmed during metallurgical trials