Lee Enfield No 1 Mk III* questions

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Howdy All,

I bought a LE No1 MkIII* just before Chirstmas that was a FTR. I found the benefit of buying from a competent gunsmith; a the bolt was not fitted properly when I got it, so he went rummaging around and chekced all of the bolts he had until he found one that fit perfectly.

I have not had a chance to shoot it yet, but I noticed soemthing odd; the elevationa adjustment slider is not sitting on the steel ramp it slides on. There is an adjustment knob on the left of the leaft, I assume that is the windage adjustment people told me is made inactive, that is sitting on the wood handguard. I assume that I need to take a dremel and take a small amount of wood out until it is resting properely, I think, but I thought I would check with soemone who knows these rifles better before I did.

Another question for you is about the magazine. The mag that was with it was bent slightly and would not feed properly. I ended up getting the money off a recoil pad for the cost of a replacement magazine I found. When I fitted it in the magaizne is a bit loose; it will move around slightly. I do not know if it is enough to affect feeding yet, but we will see. If it is, is there anyway I can shim it so that it stays in place?

Thanks for any information you guys can give me in advance.
 
The rear site sounds Ok, Don't be dremmeling away any wood. Some of the windage adjustable rear sites were not pinned so it might still work. Set the rear site to 200 and go shooting.

The mag should fit tight unless you have something odd. I don't understand what your talking about, bent and not feeding, just get a pair of pliers and bend it till it feeds properly, small bends, just little tweeks till it feeds properly.

Too bad your in ottawa, I would offer to check out your problems.

Pictures would help too with your explination.
 
woodchopper said:
The rear site sounds Ok, Don't be dremmeling away any wood. Some of the windage adjustable rear sites were not pinned so it might still work. Set the rear site to 200 and go shooting.

The mag should fit tight unless you have something odd. I don't understand what your talking about, bent and not feeding, just get a pair of pliers and bend it till it feeds properly, small bends, just little tweeks till it feeds properly.

Too bad your in ottawa, I would offer to check out your problems.

Pictures would help too with your explination.
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As I have just found out. I bought a windage adjustable rear sight off a board member. He sent me the sight and told me if it was what I was looking for to send him payment It arrived in good shape. I tried to adjust the windage screw and it would not move. I contacted the seller and explained the problem. And told him I would soak it in penetrating oil for a couple of days which I did. I then cleaned it up and proceded to try and adjust the screw until I snapped the knobb off. I told the seller what I did and told him what happened and that I would send him the funds for the sight and the broken one back because it was useless to me. The way I looked at it he sent me the sight and I broke it I was responsible for paying for it. He said no way I did not have to pay for it and to send it back. HOW MANY GUYS ARE THIS GOOD. THANK YOU Doug! I was at the WOODSTOCK gun show and was talking to one of the vendors of enfield parts and told him about this. He showed me two adjustable sights which looked the same to me. except for a pin going through the center of one. So I find out they pinned some of them so they would not move. I Learned another milsurp lesson.
 
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Yep, some are pinned. It's an easy gunsmith fix to unpin one, IF you know it's pinned. If not, you'll snap it trying to make her move :)
 
The magazne that was bent looked to have been struck just below the stock causing a crease. The magazine would ffed about two rounds in hit that crease, and then stop feeding. That magazine was replaced by another one; I am not saying where it came from but he soaked me good for extra fees; a $20 magazine cost $35 by the time it was delivered. This magazine seems to be a bit loose.

The bottom of the sight does not sit on any metal at all, the rear of the sight is actually sitting on the wood in the back. AMuser sights seem to have steel on steel contact for the sight adjustment; this Enfield had wood on steel contact for a bit and then it drops down onto the steel ramp that I assume that it should be riding on. I assume that it should not be doing this because I would think that the POI would change as the wood absorbed moisture, or maybe I am reading too much into it.
 
sounds like the wood may not be original, or properly installed. There should be metal on metal contact, set the site to 200 and if its still on wood then you have a problem. Post pictures.

Mags for enfields are $35 and up, you rarely get them for less, enfields came with one mag, some owners think they are using an assult rifle and buy up a pile of mags causing a shortage.
 
It sounds like you may have a No.4 mag in your No.1
If you still have the damaged mag compare the rib on the back to see if they are the same.
As for the wood/sight issue, the upper handguard may have been changed.
This is common, and whoever changed it may have put on the wrong type.
I'm no expert on handguards, but it would be a piss-off to dremel the crap out of say, a rare Long Lee handguard to make it into a bubba'd no.1 handguard wouldn't it.
A good rule of thumb is don't modify parts until you have ruled out replacing them.
 
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