Gun modification

[leaningright]

All you military gun purists just skip this thread. I like taking military weapons that I obtain on the cheap and sporterizing them. I'm finally planning to begin modifications on a 303 British Enfield (in honor of Tom Pendergast aka Milagro) that I bought for $40 back in 1992. I have already put a synthetic stock on it and have killed a few deer with it. Targeting on paper it has performed more than adequate as well...so it is a good candidate for my plans. I plan to shorten the barrel and glass bed everything. I haven't decided yet if I want to keep the synthetic stock or if I want to purchase a nice wooden stock for it. I'll also put a nice scope on it.

If this gun does what I think it will and performs accurately out to about 250 yd, I plan to make it my elk rifle. I plan to retire and do a bit of elk hunting in the coming years as long as I remain in good enough health. While I can afford a very good weapon for this, I find this approach to be much more rewarding. I've got a couple of weeks off starting Friday so I'm looking forward to getting started. I'll try to document with some pics if I can remember to take them.

[Buckly J. Ewer]

Here's a beauty with Cutaneous fibromas , should make for some fine eating...

Enjoy!

[WinterBorn]

All you military gun purists just skip this thread. I like taking military weapons that I obtain on the cheap and sporterizing them. I'm finally planning to begin modifications on a 303 British Enfield (in honor of Tom Pendergast aka Milagro) that I bought for $40 back in 1992. I have already put a synthetic stock on it and have killed a few deer with it. Targeting on paper it has performed more than adequate as well...so it is a good candidate for my plans. I plan to shorten the barrel and glass bed everything. I haven't decided yet if I want to keep the synthetic stock or if I want to purchase a nice wooden stock for it. I'll also put a nice scope on it.

If this gun does what I think it will and performs accurately out to about 250 yd, I plan to make it my elk rifle. I plan to retire and do a bit of elk hunting in the coming years as long as I remain in good enough health. While I can afford a very good weapon for this, I find this approach to be much more rewarding. I've got a couple of weeks off starting Friday so I'm looking forward to getting started. I'll try to document with some pics if I can remember to take them.

I'd love to see the final results. Keep us posted. I have always liked the .303 british.

[WinterBorn]

Here's a beauty with Cutaneous fibromas , should make for some fine eating...

Enjoy!

Yeah, no one I know is foolish enough to eat that. But then, if it were a cow you would never know those tumors were in your ground beef.

[USFREEDOM911]

Yeah, no one I know is foolish enough to eat that. But then, if it were a cow you would never know those tumors were in your ground beef.

But liberals don't want it shot and put out of it's misery; because they would prefer that it die a natural death or one by predators.

[Norah]

Here's a beauty with Cutaneous fibromas , should make for some fine eating...

Enjoy!

If I was out hunting and I saw that poor deer I'd have no choice but to put it out of its misery

[Buckly J. Ewer]

If I was out hunting and I saw that poor deer I'd have no choice but to put it out of its misery

What wonderful sport ...

[Celticguy]

Sounds like a fun project, enjoy yourself and I hope you'll be elk hunting as long as you wish.

[Norah]

What wonderful sport ...

It wouldn't be a fun trigger pull but an animal like that would clearly be suffering and would probably face a long drawn out death from starvation.

[canceled.2021.3]

It wouldn't be a fun trigger pull but an animal like that would clearly be suffering and would probably face a long drawn out death from starvation.

You are a sweetheart trying to explain logic to imbeciles like Bucky

Of course Bucky is all about killing babies and euthanasia. But kill a deer?

[WinterBorn]

What wonderful sport ...

What she is talking about is not about sport. It is about compassion and mercy.

[leaningright]

This is not my gun but it is the same style and is what my gun looked like back '92 when I got it. It will give an idea of what I'm starting with. The first thing I did was buy the synthetic stock you will see in subsequent pics and then eliminated the peep sights, modified the receiver so that I could drill and tap it for a Weaver scope bar.

[leaningright]

Here a couple of pics of the scope mount I cobbled up for this modification.





I cut about an inch off the bar so it would fit. I took the peep sight (which was made to swivel and switch between two sizes of holes) off and drilled and tapped the back of the bar from each side and put it where the peep sight was. I then drilled and tapped from the top so I could put a single screw in there. Now the bar is secured at three positions. This has proved to be a very secure mount serving since about 1995 or 1996.

[leaningright]

All of these target pics are shot from at least 100 yds (100 of my steps) just taking a rest off of the hood of my pickup. This is before I shortened the barrel. The two farthest apart are 3 inches. I allowed that I had a flyer or I didn't hold steady ... just taking a rest off my truck there is room for error. The older I get the more room there seems to be.

[leaningright]

A good vice, leather glove and hack saw does the trick.