I've had a workmate come see me with a issue he's having with his sporterised third hand Enfield. I don't have another to compare with but he reported that sometime when loading the rifle it was spontaneously go off on him.
With no experience with one of these at all, I took the bottom timber off and worked out how the the bolt comes forward and engages on the sear thingo (technical term) it was only just contacting and the bolt being a little sloppy sometimes it would only just engage and then release when more spring pressure was applied via the bolt.
So done a bit of tinkering and noticed the grub screw adjuster that lets the sear thingo move further up on the bolt face sear thingo (another technical term). So once adjusted I cleaned everything up and tested and tested and could get get it to go off on me no matter how hard I tried. So the question I spose is how much should the 2 sear setups intercept? I'm wondering if rotating arm has been straightened a bit while being sporterised as it appears to have a slight bend in it.
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