Hi folks...im looking for a wood set for my 1917 BSA Enfield if anyone has any for sale or knows anyone it would be a great help
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Hi folks...im looking for a wood set for my 1917 BSA Enfield if anyone has any for sale or knows anyone it would be a great help
Place a WTB here or go on flea bay but be prepared to spend or pay a substantial price for them if its a complete set, even a set that is incomplete is going to sting......
My Q is what's the matter with the old/original set for you to need a complete set? If it just looks a bit tatty, take it from me that it can probably be restored with a bit of care and skill. The next Q is that can you actually fit a fore-end properly?
Definitely not a job for the amateur thats why if I have any issues with my bedding it goes to Ken Davis who has by now 40 years as a custom stock maker and has like Peter done squilions of them.
Agreed Cinders, it's a steep but enjoyable learning curve, very easy to mess up too!Quote:
Originally Posted by CINDERS
Caution needs to be applied!
Yep, you're right. It could also be an expensive learning curve too. As apprentices we learned time and time again and totally ruined plenty of fore-ends before we got the knack. And even when we ruined a new fore-end, or butt or whatever else, we had to patch it - and then start again
I've done a few now, closely following the knowledge library here and taking it very slowly, the frustrating thing is being in the UK you can't bed and shoot straight away to see if you got it right, so it turns into a slow process...
The worst one I found to do was on my Springfield A4 build, I replaced the repro stock with an unissued Keystone manufactured example ....
That was a learning curve and then some, getting the bedding right on that was a right royal pain... Getting the barreled action at just the right height is critical (within a few mm's), or it won't feed properly, the recoil is horrible and it won't group for s***.
That took three attempts to get right, removing tiny amounts of wood on each occasion.
If I was a dealer I'd make sure that I had a 25 yard 18" diameter no-danger-area steel or concrete pipe range laid along the floor for accuracy testing. All firing from a simply made rest and............
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Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
Having something like that locally would be extremely useful, its an hour to my local range. Can't really start amateur gun smithing there!
With the cost of wood and other parts needed to restore a sporter its not really worth it unless you start with a rare rifle to begin with. IMHO a 1917 BSA is not worth it. Quicker and easier to buy one in full military condition to begin with. They are not that rare in Canada
My first desporter was a 1915 LSA no star number III. Hardest part was trying to get the wood to match