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Good job, Sarge.

Also, the stock bolt is regular ole hardware store 7/16" diameter. I forget the length. I used to have a mess of Enfields and made a few stock bolts for spares. I used hex head bolts and simply cut a wide slot with hacksaw and files to fit a big flat screwdriver. I then made a stock bolt screw driver by taking a heavy slotted screw driver, removing the handle and replacing it with a long piece of hardwood broom handle. I locked up the barreled action in my gun vise and then I could get two hands on the screw driver and really put heck and how are ya on the bolt. The broom handle fit the stock bolt hole in the buttstock pretty closely so it was easypeasy to slide the driver in and spin it till the blade dropped into the bolt head slot.

I epoxy bedded some buttstocks that were poorly fitted in the first place, usually Brit GI spares as well as some new ones that just didn't ft quite right. It works well and is easy to do.

Back in the mid '90's you could darn near buy Lee-Enfields cheaper than you could get tomato stakes, and forestocks and butts in brand new, unused condition were dirt cheap, too. Gone are those days.

OP:

Your buttstock might not tighten up laterally 100% pretty much no matter how hard you reef on them. It is possible it might still twist a bit. A judicious application of epoxy bedding will fix that up.

Just don't forget the release agent.

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