Originally Posted by
Schuetzenman
Congrats on the Ishapore Enfield. I have owned them in the past. The ones I had were finished in a baking lacquer finish which was quite shiny but not really all that sturdy a finish. I think that was applied over parkerizing possibly. I did not see any bluing as such and really bluing is a piss poor finish. It does almost nothing to prevent rust.
Before you go hosing a bunch of money into it, make sure it actually works. Go shoot it and see if it groups or patterns and if it will extract the case and eject it. Some of these were built uisng .303 extractors, they do not work well. The extractors are different for a .303 vs. 7.62 NATO Enfield like the 2A Ishapore types.
I also found that most of the Ishapre enfields don't feed ammo out of their magazines worth a damn. I did figure out how to tweak the feed lips and get them to feed reliably. Took hours of analysing and adjusting with pliers, but I eventually got it to run 100%.
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