20 Round SMLE Linley Magazine
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Topic: 20 Round SMLE Linley Magazine
Posted By: Strangely Brown
Subject: 20 Round SMLE Linley Magazine
Date Posted: April 02 2023 at 3:52am
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This is apparently on show today at Kempton Park Race Course arms fair in the UK. There's a whisper that the seller wants 2k (£) for it; I've never seen one although I did once own an original Flanders mud flap.   ------------- Mick |
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Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: April 02 2023 at 7:19am
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Wow ------------- Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts. |
Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: April 02 2023 at 8:18am
| The seller should put it in a live auction with the starting bid at 2000 pounds instead of selling it outright then. He will undoubtedly quintuple that price within minutes... |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: April 02 2023 at 9:38am
| Think you could fab up something similar for a No5, Goosic? |
Posted By: Strangely Brown
Date Posted: April 02 2023 at 10:04am
Peter Sarony who owns Armalon in the UK has knocked some of these up in the past (pre 1990?) in the days of Practical Rifle, since surpassed by Civilian Service Rifle. I think the arrival the Remington 700's probably helped kill the UK market for an Enfield 20 rounder as well. ------------- Mick |
Honkytonk wrote:Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: April 02 2023 at 10:08am
I have pondered that for quite awhile now and I think it can be done using a Bren LMG magazine...
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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: April 02 2023 at 12:21pm
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Bren mag is way to long (front<>rear). The originals had a terrible reputation for jamming & generally poor feeding. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: April 02 2023 at 1:50pm
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So if 200000 of these were made by 1918, were pray tell did they all go. Surely there must be a fare few around. I heard rumors that a bunch came to Canada for some self loading smle experiments??? Only 75000 cruciform bayonets were made and I managed to get one. As to the Q of making one; combining 2 10 rounders would end up being a straight stick type and not as cool looking as the original. Then the issue of finding or making a suitable follower spring..... Not worth the effort and definitely not worth $4000 for an original,... holy smokes!!!!
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Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: April 02 2023 at 2:26pm
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rare bird indeed. |
Posted By: Marco1010
Date Posted: April 02 2023 at 2:33pm
| I seem to recall readingthat the 20 round Lee Enfield magazines were tested on the early model Charlton Automatic rifle, but were dropped to use a modified Bren Magazine (which also fed poorly). |
Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: April 02 2023 at 2:52pm
A Vickers-Berthier magazine could work with some minor modifications...
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Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: April 02 2023 at 6:38pm
| interesting bit , ive never seen one in person either , dont think id pay that tho , just me |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: April 02 2023 at 7:21pm
| I wonder how much the Bren and other top fed magazine LMG's relied on gravity along with the spring for feeding? |
Posted By: Marco1010
Date Posted: April 03 2023 at 1:17am
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Gravity is such a wonderful thing when you are trying to get ammo to feed, downwards into the action. hence the success of the bren, vickers- berthier, Owen sub machine gun and many others. The sten compromised with side feeding. So many other good weapons were let down by poor magazine design.
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