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    Posted: February 06 2006 at 4:29pm
Over a long career in the Pro shooting industry I've owned a lot of Enfields in their various forms & converstions (at one stage years ago I owned about 30 at once ) I'm still a sucker for a nice Enfield (is there any other kind ????) But I have also owned some shockers ! I once brought a Mk3 for the princely sum of $15.00 & on getting it too the range I found that it kicked like a mule & the bullets tumbled out of the muzzle ! Now like anybody else I hate the thought of buying infearer goods ! So out with a Hacksaw & off with a inch of barrel to remove the worn muzzle ! I then looked down the Barrel  I'd been sold a small bore Shotgun by mistake surely !!!! The previous owner would'nt have off loaded a piece of junk onto me????? What it was ,was that this rifle (well at one stage of it's life it had rifling) Had been fed (I'm sure) a excluzive diet of Nickle coated bullets (During WW2 copper was scarce A Nickle was used to jacket MkV11 bullets) These are silver in colour & leave a deposit of nickle each shot which is near impossible to remove !!!!
        I ended up selling the Rifle to a new chum for about $45.00 ! Nw before you get up on your high horses about what a rouge I am ! Let me tell you, he talked me down from $60.00!!!!!!!!!

      Dave 
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Dave emailed me this story yesterday, its still  funny today. "Talked me down from $60",  typical gun guy eh ???
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