Fitting & machining of bracket pads blanks on a No#4

[browningautorifle]

Very nice work, very interesting watching this come together.

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[quiet_lurker]

Very nice work.

May have a scope that will help. Will contact you.

Regards

Mark

[BrianLara400*]

I had forgotten all about this thread until my memory was prompted by a forumers PM, enquiring on barrel specs. So here are some pics of the final form, this project took on:




The 1907 sling I pirated from another rifle of mine, was too short for my preferred configuration when prone shooting (long limbs) - this neccesitated a short extension for the forward sling half. (see pictured above ^^^^)


Sourced a L13a1 PM6x42 & repro bracket for this project out of the UK.
The rifles handguard was probably at the fattest end of savage wartime factory tolerances and wouldn't clear the S&B's larger objective bell, so I judiciously spoke-shaved the height down (evenly) and then blended it with a sheet sander.

Of the photos I've seen of this combination mounted on the L42 i.e in some of Skennerton's publications etc some of those 6x42s look to be mounted impossibly low too, so I imagine that depending upon which individual handguard/top wood was fitted this would often have been encountered.


The sportco rifle was very well bedded/ fettled, with brass draws etc when I got it and I've since added some brass/ cork shimming etc in a few critical areas to further improve the wood/metal bedding. I think I can further improve the grouping/bedding a bit without resorting to epoxy/ glass, so will keep playing. Due to the way they assemble/ "stock up" epoxy bedding an enfield action is "involved" to say the least. The 2nd stage of the trigger on my donor rifle, was absolute perfection and probably the nicest I’ve used – but after the tiny bit of judicious shimming etc done to tighten up the critical recoil bearing surfaces in the foreend, the trigger let off did discernably change – not terribly so, still very very good by any measure but it did come back abit from the lofty heights it had been @ before. So the fore-end fit of a Mk1 does have an affect.

The chiseled inlet for the central sight plate on rh side is still evident, from its previous life as a range rifle - though can be blended in at some point down the track if I decide to refinish the fore-end. I stained/re-stained the hand guard & cheek piece to roughly match the existing wood work. Sealed those bits with a handful of coats of 80% tru-oil, 20% burnishing oil.


I re-used an old facing, Ignore all the additional holes - they're a different calibre anyway.
I think it's showing a lot of potential so far @ around that 3/4 Moa mark - and it scored quite well in a few positional shooting comps I went in late last year (plus there's been been some feral goats, foxes & pigs who've thought "none too much, of it" .)


Have followed the specs of the original L42 rifles as close as I can within the confines of the donor rifle, i.e
-it already had an additional ejector drilled & tapped into it (which both are redundant - when an RSAF enfield 762 mag is fitted),
-I think the sportco barrel is shy about an inch of length compared to those Enfield hammer forged originals, though whilst there's as much life/performance left in this one I'm reticent to do anything about that

the odd little thing to touch up/ finish off, but overall I think its come up rather well