Re: COLONIAL WEAPONS

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Clinton" <grumbling_grognard@hotmail.com>
>
> You could NOT have taken your Enfield Rifle to such a location in 1941
and
> had decent replacement parts made, just as you can not take any
cutting
edge
> tech into the middle of nowhere and expect to have replacements made
for
it.

I suspect that most parts could have been produced in the third world
even
in the 1940's - at least in a place with a skilled smith/metalworker.
The main exception would have probably been the barrel.
The replacements parts may have been:
less precise - prone to jamming and not exchangeable into another rifle
of the wrong metal - prone to breaking
tedious to produce - hence expensive (at least in local terms)

Greetings