I was looking at the website of a gun shop I do a lot of buying from and I saw that they have a Britishicon Enfield Mark III .303 that has copper wire wrapped around sections of the furniture.

It says that "Lee Enfield stocks were commonly wrapped with copper wire in an attempt to strengthen the stock for launching grenades with blanks."

I don't see how wrapping the wood would help with this, but I vaguely remember someone talking about this someplace. Was this really done for this reason?

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