Collecting and Shooting the Enfield No. 1 Mk III

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Loading and Unloading

The rifle can be loaded either one at a time or 5 cartridges at a time via a stripper clip. Both are done through the top.

The magazine release is inside of the trigger guard positioned to the front of the trigger. It can be quickly and easily depressed to drop the magazine by pressing up on the lever.

Safety

Instead of a cocking piece style safety, there is a lever on the left rear of the receiver that can be actuated by pulling it to the rear and snapping/locking it down.

Sights

Adjusting the sights are easily accomplished by sliding the elevation up and down the gradient.

There is also a small micro adjustment on the rear sight that I have not seen on any other stock surplus military rifle, that I really like. You can adjust the rifle (as shown in Sight 3) to a very granular level by turning the "backsight, fine adjustment worm wheel" one click, each click represents a change of only 5 yards!

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