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- From: webdw@mvutd.att.com (Bruce D Woods)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Enfield Questions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.200045.25812@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 00:00:40 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: AT&T
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1992Dec17.015920.5142@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
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- #One drawback is that, aside from one company (Hornady, I believe), you
- #absolutely MUST use surplus ammo because new .303 British works at higher
- #pressures that the Enfield can take safely. Also, that surplus ammo will
- #be corrosively primed, so you have to clean the gun the very day that you
- #shoot or you may trash the barrel.
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- Oops! At least two brands of commercial .303 ammo are produced
- within the specifications for the Enfields {why else would they
- be produced?} - Hansen, Winchester. Also, there are military
- suplus ammos that are non-corrosive; they do tend to sell quickly
- because cheap, non-corrosive ammo if boxer primed is very popular.
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- #
- #I like mine. It's accurate and dependable. To me, the main drawbacks
- #are that it takes corrosive-primer ammo and that it can be a pain to
- #load, even from stripper clips. Forget about slapping in a new magazine.
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- Oops, again! My interchangeable 10 round magazines aren't IPSC
- speedy but they can be changed in < 5 seconds.
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