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    Posted: November 21 2022 at 10:05am
Dress the screw slot first.
use an impact driver?
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Since many of you have traveled the road of parts replacement and SMLE disassembly, I will pose an issue. This same 2A1 requires replacement of the extractor and spring.
Parts headed my way.

BUT-I do have a VERY stubborn extractor screw, and my thinking is that the original extractor spring may be exerting pressure on the screw shaft. The screw slot is starting to get burred, and it's time for second opinions.
Enfield experienced gunsmiths seem almost non-existent here in this area.
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No problem.
Just checking on the old "thread drift".
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My point was just to acknowledge the dangers of an overcharged  cartridge using my experience only shamu. No more, no less...
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If specific over charges are involved this is the wrong place to discuss them.
You are all very experienced reloaders but other readers may not be.
I'm gong to let this ride because it has a lot of good info, but if unsafe reloading becomes a big part I'll be obliged to close it.
If you must discuss "Elmer Keith Commemorative Overloads" please go to PMs to do so.
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Numrich Gun Parts.  Search "Enfield Extractor" and the 308 Extractor will pop up.
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Goosic:

Having wide experience with foreign armament,and having advised foreign
soldiers during wartime-I still tend to err on the side of caution. Mostly.

This rifle has the SN 56198 with an "A" midway above the serial number.
I believe it is a 2A or possibly a 2 A-1 Ishapore Enfield.2000 meter rear sight? No other marks other than a stock rack number.

Having checked the headspace,barrel, and chamber for stuck pieces of brass; action and receiver-bolt inspection; and the bolt returns to battery with only a small bit of extra effort- I decided to
throw caution to the wind. I chambered a jacketed bullet round and-in the spirit of Mellon and WDM Bell, African hunters who used a 1-pound badly headspaced 303 Enfield SMLE----let fly behind a large tree for insurance.

It fired and functioned OK-albeit without extraction.

If you were looking for a 2A extractor, where beyond Apex and Ebay would you
look?
(No more cast bullets-I violated my self-imposed rule of none in bottleneck cases. Straight wall cases like the 45-70 and 45-90 are more forgiving.)Still plan to have a gunsmith inspect this rifle closely.

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Originally posted by 450 Fuller 450 Fuller wrote:


Apex offers both a #1 MK 3 extractor and spring:

This APEX extractor MAY have been originally for the .303 British . Will
this APEX extractor work OK for the 7.62 NATO cartridge in the Ishapore rifle?

Thought I had a picture somewhere - found it ............


7.62 on the left, 303 on the right
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Yes, a “squib” is a dangerous condition.  Especially those who shoot matches with rapid fire stages.  The temptation is to just cycle the bolt rapidly and shoot again.  Well, you know what happens then…

That happened to me once in pistol reloading.  I’ve gotten in the habit to visually inspect all charged cases in the loading block (holds 50 cases) before seating bullets.  
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Frightening - there is a lot of energy just a few inches away from our face.


It is something we should all be aware of when reloading.
I always switch off the phone and TV and tell the family not to disturb me (unless someone has died).

It only takes a fraction of a second of loss of attention and we can end up double loading, or squib-loading - which can be as bad as it can leave the bullet half way up the barrel and the next shot results in ..................


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@ The Armourer:
I wrecked a No4Mk1 action body. I was loading up 215grn RN's
and can only assume that one of those rounds was way beyond maximum charge weight. I felt the added kick, heard something make a crunch sound, and the magazine simply fell out. I tried to lift the bolt handle up and it was stuck solid. When I got home I removed the stockset and the scope and then got to work with my 5lb hand sledge. When I got the bolt assembly out you could visually see the bend from the lug contact points back. The short lug was cracked almost completely apart and the threads on the bolthead were flattened.  The only part of the cartridge to remain was the very bottom from the rim up to about 1/4". Everythingelse was pulverized brass.
I unscrewed the barrel, took off everything I could and then cut that reciever up, purposely leaving a couple of reciever bits out of the main bits so nobody could try to weld it back together...
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I’m curious what the load details are, so we can be sure to avoid this.  

I’ve not shot cast loads in my No. 4 rifles, but it should not be difficult to load safe cast bullet loads.  Typically, velocities must be kept mild to prevent leading the bore, so I really wonder what went wrong here…
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Originally posted by Goosic Goosic wrote:

450 Fuller:
Awhile back. I inadvertently over charged a cartridge. Needless to say, the result was a bent bolt body. After taking a large hammer to the bolt handle, I was able to remove it from the reciever. I took an unissued bolt body and tried to insert that into the reciever and it stopped short of the lug recesses. I took the reciever to my friends machine shop and took some measurements. The slabside/leftside of the reciever had bent outwards from the lug recess back. The short lug on the bolt body was cracked as well.
Do not attempt to repair this rifle unless you have an extremely confident gunsmith willing to vouch for the safety and functionality of it and then give it a good think.

That (and the OPs problem) sound typical of the weak Ishapore body and an overpressure 'event'.
This was exactly what the Ishapore factory found happened when they tried to manufacture them from the "supposedly" superior grade of metal - they went back to the same metals as specified by the British and it just squeezed thru the testing.

Extract from “Gun Digest 33rd Anniversary 1979 Deluxe Edition”

Article Author : Mr A G Harrison

Qualification : Former ‘Proof Master’ of the ‘Rifle Factory Proof House, Ishapore, India’


A bolt action rifle similar to the SMLE MkIII*, modified to fire the 7.62mm NATO cartridge, was produced at Ishapore, first in February 1965. The receivers were made of SWES 48 steel and with the NATO proof cartridge the receivers were found to distort with both the dry and oiled proof round. The material was changed back to the EN steel so now the rifles stand up better to dry and oiled proof. 
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Agreed. Interesting that I have had no incidents loading 150 gr jacketed bullets.
If/when I get this 2A back functioning, I will stick to the previously
described bullet weights. The SMLE Enfield action did handle the gas better than some might have-as to the shooter...

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450 Fuller:
Awhile back. I inadvertently over charged a cartridge. Needless to say, the result was a bent bolt body. After taking a large hammer to the bolt handle, I was able to remove it from the reciever. I took an unissued bolt body and tried to insert that into the reciever and it stopped short of the lug recesses. I took the reciever to my friends machine shop and took some measurements. The slabside/leftside of the reciever had bent outwards from the lug recess back. The short lug on the bolt body was cracked as well.
Do not attempt to repair this rifle unless you have an extremely confident gunsmith willing to vouch for the safety and functionality of it and then give it a good think.
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Any "incident" that has cause such events should be checked out by a competent gunsmith before proceeding.
For you own safety please don't try to "shade tree 'smiff" this issue.
These are warnings of serious damage.
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