Need info on magazine lee enfields

Just a reminder for those of you wanting to reconstruct a "Long Lee" rifle - don't drive yourself crazy trying to locate a virtually unobtainable original clearing rod.

There is a reason they are so scarce .... as detailed in this List of Changes entry - i.e. in accordance with the last sentence of the first paragraph, they were turned in and scrapped!

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Unless you are an absolute stickler for total authenticity, if you really feel the need to present the rifle as it would have appeared before the abolition of rods for .303 carbines and rifles, you'll save yourself both headaches and money by seeking out and settling for a reproduction rod ....
 
smellie said:
I note the EFD marking on the Bolt Head of this rifle. This is from the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield, which is a long way from Birmingham by English standards.

Here, of course, it's the distance between gun shows!

Likely this part, and the Magazine, were swapped-in by an Armourer while the Rifle was doing its Service in the Great War.

I think if I owned the Rifle, I would leave these parts installed. They are a part of its Service career.

As well...... 2 less parts to buy!

Save the $$$ and get the poor thing a Dust Cover! You are very lucky: many of these rifles had the lugs for the Dust Cover ground off. Yours are fine.

And while I'm out of my Ebenezer Scrooge ("Bah! Humbug!!") mood, "A Merry Christmas to All!"

(I can say that: my G-G-Uncle wrote him!)
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Wait, your G-G-Uncle was Charles Dickens?
 
update #2

I have purchased the volley rear sight and screws from a member on this forum, thanks skully, all metal except the rear swivel is accounted for
 
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