1918 NRF No1 MkIII*

Completed this one last month after a years work:


1918 NRF No1 MkIII* rebuilt postwar in 1953 at BSA using a BSA commercial barrel. This thing will flat SHOOT!

Before:

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...IMG_1101-1.jpg

After:

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...5f8e4c38-1.jpg

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...188ea9c3-1.jpg

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...6810ea42-1.jpg

Quite proud of this one as I did a lot more than restore an old sporter with a new replacement woodset. The woodset I used had really seen better days, very battle hardened, having been in Indian service a long time. I removed the Ishy screw and plugged the hole. Also replaced the draws, and repaired a crak on the right side of the fore end. The butt needed a new heel and toe, and the socket stub was really worn out. The front handguard I recieved from a CGNer was brand new but quite oversized. None of it color matched! I also re "suncorited" it with multiple coats of John Deere muffler paint over the original finish so it can go back to the original suncorite if the Deere paint was a mistake. Took a lot of work but it sure turned out well in the end.

Thanks for the help and parts everyone!

Fluing Pig, Great work. The stock came out just the way I like them for color and finish. Salt Flat

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Originally Posted by Salt Flat

Fluing Pig, Great work. The stock came out just the way I like them for color and finish. Salt Flat

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Thanks! Hopefully in the coming weeks I'll be able to take it out again and get it sighted. Last time out it shot a sub 2" 5 shot group for me at 100m (personal best with open sights) but it was about a foot low and 6" left. Taking my front sight adjusting tools with me next time and I'll get it dialed in, then see what it can do.

Great job! It sounds like it shoots as good as it looks too.

that's great work , nice save

Spent a bit more time checking and re checking the bedding again before I took it out and sighted it in. Glad that I did. Everything is now perfect. It grouped 10 shots prone off my elbows at one of those terrible orange cross targets about 3". Averaged 3" high. Snow was too deep for a rifle rest. Thanks for the comments guys, this is now my favourite SMLE I've done, no need to do another.

I should have seen your thread before starting another one! So we now know for sure that there are two 1918, NRF, desporterized No1Mk3 in Canada :) Nice job Flying pig,

Lou