Sporter metamorphosis

[scout7]

It started like this:

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa237/scout791/IMG_0833.jpg

Now it looks like this:

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa237/scout791/rehabbedLongbranch.jpg

I need to work on matching the wood colors better. The sporter wood has a Bishop buttplate on it, does it look like Bishop wood? Any market for this, or should I save it for the one that I can't restore?

[John Sukey]

Actualy thats a very nice sporter stock. maybe you should save it for the next bubba you run across. (and you will run into one of those sooner or later:D)

[Alan de Enfield]

I've seen Butts (alone) like that sell on Gunbroker for $60-$80 and the one I wanted on Ebay made $100 (but that was too much for me).

If you dont need it sell it and put it towards another Enfield.

[louthepou]

Nice work Scout7. Did you have fun bedding the forend? And how about a range report! :)

And, what John and Allan said. You'll eventually find the perfect chopped-barrel barreled action for this butt and cut forend.

Lou

[scout7]

I guess I will hold on to the sporter stock set for a while. But I do still have a good two groove full length barrel left that would be just the thing to fix up that next cut barrel sporter.

The forend was re-cycled from a previous project, so the fitting was pretty straightforward. Just a little shimming at the back of the action to give downward pressure at the barrel tip.

It shows promise at the range, was shooting some decent clusters with the different ammo types I tried. Even grouped my gas checked cast loads pretty well, a first!

[JohnMOhio]

Nice work there Scout7