gun_lover_87
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About 3 weeks I had purchased two new firing springs for my Mosin Nagant 91/30 and my Enfield No 4 rile form wollf BLITZSCHNELL. The spring for the Mosin is rated at 30lbs and the Enfield is rated at 28lbs. I installed the new springs and cold tell they were much strong than the previous ones just by messing with the action a little. The first indication of the increased strength in these new springs was when I was reassembling the bolts. I could here the springs compress and felt way more resistance when trying to put the bolts back together. With the Enfield I was able to cycle the action quickly enough to achieve about 1 round a second. That is no longer a possibility with the new spring. Even just opening the bolt takes considerable more force, when closing the bolt I now have to use all my fingers and palm and pretty much have to take the rifle off my shoulder to gain the extra leverage needed to close the bolt, and by no means am I weak or lack any strength in my upper body. There isn’t much difference in the function of the Mosin’s bolt, opening the bolt feels about the same as the old spring, as dose closing it. With the old Mosin spring I was able to pull back on the cocking piece and cock it with out lifting up the bolt body, I could tell the new spring was significantly stronger when I tried to do this to it. It wouldn’t budge, it just hurt my fingers.
I bought these springs because I only shoot surplus ammo in my rifles. The Mosin eats Hungarian yellow tip circa 1970s bought at the sportsmansguide. The ammo was nicely packaged coming in a sealed, rust free tin, this had kept the rounds in pristine condition; indeed it looked like the rounds had just been manufactured yesterday. I would give this ammo a reliability rating of 80% (the chance of the round being fired on the first strike with or without a hang fire). The rest of the time I have to re-cock the bolt and strike it again or consider it a dud. My Enfield is fed .303 British rounds also bought from the sportsmansguide. All that I know about the rounds is that they are of mixed production from the 50s and 60s and came in a regular cardboard box. Needless to say the rounds looked their age or even older, about 95% were corroded or tarnished and they also stank horribly. I have long suspected that the majority of this ammo is from the infamous POF line of production. I would give these rounds a reliability rating of about 50%. And of this 50% I would say about 90% have hang fires, some which are even as long as half a second.
Finally yesterday I went to my local national forest and it was time to test out my new springs. What a huge difference these things made. I shot about 50 rounds from my Mosin and Enfield. All rounds fired on the first strike and the majority of them had no hang fires, some still had hang fires but the length of the hang fire had been cut down so that they were hardly noticeable. As mentioned early the Mosin (it has a straight bolt) operated the same with the new spring and my friend who wasn’t aware of the new spring noticed no difference in the action of the bolt. The Enfield is now harder to operate so if your one of those people who are into speed or competition shooting with the Enfield I would suggest probably buying a spring with a weaker rating, but chances are that if you are using your Enfield for competition shooting your using quality ammo. Also these springs were brand new and had not been broken in so maybe you can expect the spring to weaken a bit over time.
The price for the springs was $8.29 for each and shipping was $3.99 to California. With optional insurance of $1.65 my order total came to $22.22 and it arrived in about 4 days. The Enfield spring stock number is 62228 and it can be found under the Lee-Enfield section of the rifles and shotguns category of the wollf springs website. Even though the description says the springs are for Lee-Enfield #1 MK3, the package says they will fit Lee-Enfield No. 1 , Mark 3 and No. s 4 & 5, Mark 1. All in all I would give these springs a 10 out of 10 and would recommended them to anyone who shoots surplus ammo and is tried of hang fires and rounds that are discarded as duds. wollf springs website can be found here
http://www.gunsprings.com/1ndex.html
I bought these springs because I only shoot surplus ammo in my rifles. The Mosin eats Hungarian yellow tip circa 1970s bought at the sportsmansguide. The ammo was nicely packaged coming in a sealed, rust free tin, this had kept the rounds in pristine condition; indeed it looked like the rounds had just been manufactured yesterday. I would give this ammo a reliability rating of 80% (the chance of the round being fired on the first strike with or without a hang fire). The rest of the time I have to re-cock the bolt and strike it again or consider it a dud. My Enfield is fed .303 British rounds also bought from the sportsmansguide. All that I know about the rounds is that they are of mixed production from the 50s and 60s and came in a regular cardboard box. Needless to say the rounds looked their age or even older, about 95% were corroded or tarnished and they also stank horribly. I have long suspected that the majority of this ammo is from the infamous POF line of production. I would give these rounds a reliability rating of about 50%. And of this 50% I would say about 90% have hang fires, some which are even as long as half a second.
Finally yesterday I went to my local national forest and it was time to test out my new springs. What a huge difference these things made. I shot about 50 rounds from my Mosin and Enfield. All rounds fired on the first strike and the majority of them had no hang fires, some still had hang fires but the length of the hang fire had been cut down so that they were hardly noticeable. As mentioned early the Mosin (it has a straight bolt) operated the same with the new spring and my friend who wasn’t aware of the new spring noticed no difference in the action of the bolt. The Enfield is now harder to operate so if your one of those people who are into speed or competition shooting with the Enfield I would suggest probably buying a spring with a weaker rating, but chances are that if you are using your Enfield for competition shooting your using quality ammo. Also these springs were brand new and had not been broken in so maybe you can expect the spring to weaken a bit over time.
The price for the springs was $8.29 for each and shipping was $3.99 to California. With optional insurance of $1.65 my order total came to $22.22 and it arrived in about 4 days. The Enfield spring stock number is 62228 and it can be found under the Lee-Enfield section of the rifles and shotguns category of the wollf springs website. Even though the description says the springs are for Lee-Enfield #1 MK3, the package says they will fit Lee-Enfield No. 1 , Mark 3 and No. s 4 & 5, Mark 1. All in all I would give these springs a 10 out of 10 and would recommended them to anyone who shoots surplus ammo and is tried of hang fires and rounds that are discarded as duds. wollf springs website can be found here
http://www.gunsprings.com/1ndex.html
