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I'm wondering if someone here can comment on the floorplates Sedgley used on their sporting rifles. They aren't standard Springfield size, perhaps more Enfield dimensions. I'd be interested in any suggestion as to why this occurred.

Bill,
Sedgley used '03 floorplates plus they modified 1917 floorplates and used them. It took a lot of work to do the modification and you would have thought it would have been easier to get '03s but labor must have not been a worry back then. They had to shorten the plate and then add a lug. It is easy to see which plate was used by the width of the rear tab with the hole to release the FP which will show in the photos. There seems to be no pattern of when they used one or the other type.
I will have to try to find some photos I made back when Michael and I discussed this. If I can't I will take some new ones and have Fred post them for me.
Dan

Dan, thanks for the information. I think now I have seen some Sedgleys with 03 floorplates. Maybe the Enfield ones were more readily available. The difference between the two is minor, but I prefer the 03. On a slightly different note,over the past few years I've built some Mauser sporters using 03 magazine assemblies. They aren't mistaken for Blackburns, but they're a big improvement over the military Mauser ones.

Here are the pictures Dan asked me to post on this thread

Thanks for the photos. They make the difference clear. I'm still curious as to why they did that.