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Does anyone offer rebuilt SMLE's?
There are many 'smiths that rebuild M1's and such but I've never heard of anyone who rebuilds SMLE's.
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01-17-2010 12:30 AM
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I don't think there is sufficient demand, but you could commission a smith to build one. It's more fun to do it yourself. You can find nearly new rifles and rebuild rifles on Gunbroker.
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of course there are these
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Ma Parker did 20 odd years ago. Built up from her stock of spares reportedly. The one I saw looked Suncorited. Obviously it would take the gauges and skills to do properly and those skills won't be around more than another twenty years, if that.
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Rebuilt SMLEs are common in UK. So long as the receiver is good, then most of the other parts are available in new condition (original) or new (repro wood).
A fairly popular project is to take one of the current crop of ex-South Africa Police No1s that are being imported. Although visually bitsas, they are usually in mechanically A1 condition with mint barrels. Some of them have been all-over parkerised or blued. When new wood is added, these make quite attractive "new" rifles.
Most UK guns are built as one-offs. The firearms market is now so restricted that there is a huge over-supply of decent milsurp rifles, and no economic value in trying to have a production run of re-manufactured rifles. Its vastly more profitable to sell unused parts on eBay, rather than try to build&sell a rifle.
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There were two dealers doing refinishing metal and wood at the Ohio gun shows. If you want pretty, I guess they fit the bill. I felt they destroyed any value they might have had.
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Any knowledge of someone in the US to rebarrel/have acess to new barrels for the Enfields ? tia barry
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Any knowledge of someone in the US to rebarrel/have acess to new barrels for the Enfields ? tia barry
on enfield resource there's a few folks with barrels, I think they're notated.