Quote Originally Posted by Roger Payneicon View Post
Have a close look at the chamber(s) of your rifles in case there is anything stuck to the walls, or, as I have seen before, there are any patches of corrosion in the chambers. This might also give hard extraction & would put scratches down the sidewalls of the cases when you did finally get them extracted. Just a thought.......many years ago I bought a MkV SMLE that had recently been submitted to & passed proof, but the first time I took it down to the range the bolt stuck shut after firing the first round. It turned out that whilst the bore was fine, headspace was fine, but the chamber was badly pitted. Neither I nor the Proof House had noticed......we look for pitting in the bore, but how often do we routinely closely examine the chamber? It taught me a lesson....!
There's so much to learn about the lee enfields, so much history. i will check the chamber, but how about the roughness on the rims. do you think it's the extractor being too tight,