That's where I put that! All joking aside, let's hope it was a small bore bolt.

I wonder which end went in first.

Well he was smart enough to not try hiding the whole rifle !

Whole new meaning to internal extractor.

My first wife was a nurse. During her time as an "intern" in the casualty department a red faced young man reported that he had had an accident.

He'd been standing on a chair to get something off his bookshelf and fell off it landing onto one of his collection of military artefacts.

Apparently whilst naked.

So they lie him down and have a look.

And can see "fins". At which point my wife, guessing what it is because of what I used to do, suggests that they evacuate the casualty area and call the Army bomb disposal as it is clearly the back end of a British Two Inch Mortar, mortar shell.

Which it was. Oh dear! All ended well and the it ended well with the only injury being to the young man's pride.

He's Australian, that's all you have to know.

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Originally posted by Fjold:
He's Australian, that's all you have to know.

Figures, it's a LE no. 4 bolt. Which leads to the question , why ?

Grizz

Boss Godfrey kep his in his belt..maybe this Aussie guy wore braces aka suspenders?

Damned Aussies- prohibiting keeping a bolt up your ass? What a violation of personal liberty.

For Shame!

What would the idiot have done if he owned lever-action?

I would think that keeping your rifles bolt up your ass would be one of the safest places that you could ever find to store it. It's not like anyone other than an Aussie cop is going to look for it there. And I don't think that many people would have the stomach to fish it out of there either! And it's not like it's easily accessible. I'm sure that it would take a certain amount of finesse and care to pull it back out without doing some damage and then clean it up before you could use it!

wonder if it was a straight pull or a turn bolt

Looks like a SMELE!

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Originally posted by butchloc:
wonder if it was a straight pull or a turn bolt

Turn bolt. But it's cock on closing!

Just saw this today and posted it. What the hell goes through someones mind?

Yes quite ironic that it is a 'rear' locking 'SMLE' bolt.

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Originally posted by Bakes:
Just saw this today and posted it. What the hell goes through someones mind?

May be he uses other part of his body instead of his mind?

He actually should have chosen a more modern and thought out bolt design. One of the major problems with the Lee Enfield was it's poor gas handling abilities. In the event of a rupture, shit would come flying back right in your face.

Seems like a shitty way to treat a rifle to me.

The best line in the article:

"The man was charged by police with weapons offences, because his unique hiding place is apparently not 'an approved storage facility'. "

What I would like to know is how did he swallow it so he could poop it out??

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Originally posted by Garth Baker:
What I would like to know is how did he swallow it so he could poop it out??

Well Garth. You will figure all of this out after you've had your first prostrate exam and your doctor calls you back to his office an hour later because he can't find his wrist watch !

I have a Howa 1500 in the shop right now missing it's bolt; maybe I should ask the owner to check...

Many people in Canada call the SMLE a (SMELLY). I wonder? No, Canadians wouldn't do that. I think that's just a British thingy and we just picked up the (SMELLY) name thingy from them.

He had it there coz the Sheep said NaaaaaH!!