Need help with No. 4 Enfield magazine feeding issue.

[Bsteinhauer28]

Having a hell of a time getting my #4 Mk2 to feed properly. both left and right side feeding seem to jam up halfway. Have tried bending the feed lips to no success and even tried messing with the rear ones. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

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[Andy54Hawken]

Our friend @tac may have a few ideas 'bout this.
Andy

 

[Southpaw]

Are you loading them staggered with the top round in front of the rim on the round underneath it to avoid rimlock?

 

[Bsteinhauer28]

Are you loading them staggered with the top round in front of the rim on the round underneath it to avoid rimlock?

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right now I'm just hand loading them in first making sure to not cause that.

 

[Southpaw]

Stripper or handload top round still needs to be in front of the bottom round

 

[Bsteinhauer28]

Stripper or handload top round still needs to be in front of the bottom round

Would that be causing the angle to be so extreme?

 

[Southpaw]

How's the spring in the mag?

Does it load any better or worse with varying the amount of rounds in the mag?

 

[Southpaw]

Maybe this will help get your feed lips tuned.

Enfield magazine feed lip tuning

EDIT: The images are not working, I'm looking for the originals... Just short of the chamber, you can see two tabs poking in. Those are th...

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[Bsteinhauer28]

How's the spring in the mag?

Does it load any better or worse with varying the amount of rounds in the mag?

Spring can be sticky and I was going to clean it and oil it here soon. I only have 5 snapcaps currently though I suppose I could load 5 live rounds at the bottom to test full mag loading. in the first 5 rounds at least it doing the same thing every time. Extreme feed angle and it almost looks like the cartridge hangs on the feed lips. Then when I pull back the bolt the round "pops" out of the magazine for a lack of a better way of putting it. Maybe every 1 in 10-15 attempts will a round chamber without issue.

 

[tac]

Can you show me a SIDE view of your magazine, please?

 

[Bsteinhauer28]

Can you show me a SIDE view of your magazine, please?

It'll be later in the day today after I'm home from work but yeah I'll get those over to you

 

[Bsteinhauer28]

Probably doesn't help much but this is the best I got currently.

 

[tac]

Ah, that's fine - I was concerned that you might have had a magazine for a later model in 7.62x51.

 

[Southpaw]

I'm thinking the feed lips gotta be out of proper alignment or maybe a weak or backwards mag spring?

 

[Bsteinhauer28]

Is the follower supposed to sit like that when empty? (Sorry for potato photos)

 

[Bsteinhauer28]

I'm noticing too that the rounds catch on the pin.

 

[Bsteinhauer28]

Left feed

 

[tac]

Ah, I don't wish to make a thing of this, but do you ever clean that rifle?

By the way - it looks to me like the FP is sticking out too much, so I posted a ? on the L-E FB forum.

This was the resplone -

Hi tac, minimum at about 0.040 inch (1,02mm) and Maximum at 0.050 inch (1,27mm) sometimes a bit +/- (give or take). Patrick.

 

[Bsteinhauer28]

Ah, I don't wish to make a thing of this, but do you ever clean that rifle?

By the way - it looks to me like the FP is sticking out too much, so I posted a ? on the L-E FB forum.

This was the resplone -

Hi tac, minimum at about 0.040 inch (1,02mm) and Maximum at 0.050 inch (1,27mm) sometimes a bit +/- (give or take). Patrick.

I have not gotten to cleaning it yet but I just bought it from another NWFA member recently. It will be getting a deep clean here soon but I was just trying to troubleshoot the feeding issues the previous owner mentioned it had first if possible (its my first enfield).

 

[tac]

Tac Foley
Thank you, Sir. A fellow poster on northwestfirearms is getting hangups on the last round out of the mag of his No4 MkII - to me it looks like it's getting stopped from rising properly due to the excessive protrusion - it looks like around 2.5mm at le…
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  Tac Foley "hangups" of what sort? do the last round out of the mag jams to the upper left corner in-front of the chamber? The Firing Pin should not Protrude at all during Loading a cartridge in the Chamber.

BTW, THIS is an Enfield rifle -



What you have is a LEE-Enfield rifle, the Lee being the name of the American who designed it in the first place. Anyhoo, if I were you, I'd be giving it a good and thorough clean BEFORE doing anything else, the second thing being signing up for the FB page on the Lee-Enfield rifle in all its variants.