Originally Posted by
Kragrifle
Now, I will put it to you a good number of Lee Navys out there are wearing non original bolts , yet the only failures involved reformed Krag brass. We all feel headspace is important, but maybe not so much with the Lees locking system (?). Still would be good if we knew how to check the headspace before we pulled the trigger.
I do not worry, well not excessively, about head space and I am unanimous in that. I liken it to Garands. There is no way to know if the bolt for that particular Garand was the exact one that rolled out of Springfield or Winchester in WW2. Oh the bolt that may be in it has the same markings as the one on the day of final assembly but you can not be certain it was the original one. I bet a dollar that ninety-nine point nine repeating to infinity that most all of the guns on the secondary market are not checked for headspace. You plunk down your money, take the gun home, clean it up and take it out for a spin with proper ammo. And nobody thinks twice about it.
I trust the designers and engineers used the Whitney model of manufacturing, parts uniformity. One bolt is the same as the next.
What I do not trust is some bubba reaming out the chamber to some other cartridge. Happened to me on a Krag.
Would it be nice to know? Sure. Do I care to know? Ummmmm. Not too much.
BTW I have a census for existing Win Lee's. Would you be willing share the serial number on yours with me?
The very best regards to you,
1."If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." - Rene Descartes
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