Thread on No1 eject screw?

[5thBatt]

So you drilled & tapped your Mk1 SMLE receiver!!?
& btw its not a No1

[Bruce_in_Oz]

"So you drilled & tapped your Mk1 SMLE receiver!!?"

Apparently so.

The next question is this: Is that a "sporterized" Mk1 SMLE or a contemporary "commercial" job built on a Mk1 action?

The checquered woodwork has the look of early commercial rifles, but the colour is not as dark as one would expect for something of that age. BSA, in particular, made a lot of sporters on LE and SMLE actions before WW1. The magazine looks like the right pattern for the era and will be a bugger trying to feed shorter, spire-pointed bullets from it.

What is the story with the brass rear triggerguard screw?

[5thBatt]

"So you drilled & tapped your Mk1 SMLE receiver!!?"

Apparently so.

The next question is this: Is that a "sporterized" Mk1 SMLE or a contemporary "commercial" job built on a Mk1 action?

The checquered woodwork has the look of early commercial rifles, but the colour is not as dark as one would expect for something of that age. BSA, in particular, made a lot of sporters on LE and SMLE actions before WW1. The magazine looks like the right pattern for the era and will be a bugger trying to feed shorter, spire-pointed bullets from it.

What is the story with the brass rear triggerguard screw?

I believe its the rifle shown at the top of this The Lee Enfield Rifle

[RJW NZ]

Hi gents, it is my one rifle I gave myself permission to not be afraid to modify if it made it more of a shooter for me, rather than my other rifles that are as stock as I can make them. Its a No1 1907 with H barrel. My eyes don't work with aperture sights either, so they weren't an answer and the rifle has not had much serious shooting other than when I had my friends shoot it for the book images last year.. I found it as a hunterized rifle a few years back, and way past the end of that life, hence the replacement barrel.
The brass trigger guard screw came after repairing a crushed thread hole when the rifle was dropped and it landed right on that bump and flattened it. The treads were beyond rescue and the only thing that would hold was a standard modern screw, now I have better knowledge of the original threads I can do something about it.
The wood, excepting the butt, is EFD repro wood, and very nice it is too. I did the checkering, my first effort. I will probably not do it again, lol.
As for the eyesore of the drilled receiver, something I thought over for about a year before deciding to do, when the scope mount is off, if ever, I'll install some very discrete blackened screw ends so that externally there will be little to draw ones eye there, with their slots on the inside of the bolt channel and the heads flush fitting.