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Thanks everybody. Thought this might turn out to be one of those "wished I'd never asked" threads!!

Forster SAAMI field gage reads 2.0577, so apparently the '03 and '17 gages are not interchangeable. You're correct about the stripped bolt==force of the striker spring on closing makes it tough to...

My Eddystone 9-18 does not pass the field gage test using a Forster gage, which is SAAMI spec. Is that the final authority, or is there a military spec for these old rifles? I have fired it, and was...