1st post! Ishapore 2a1 sporter restoration

[Kiwisteve]

I think you have done a stellar job MosinVirus.
It is a credit to your perseverance, many would have given up.

You have inspired me to continue with my M38 Swedish Mauser project, it too has a warped stock which needs replaced & the replacement needs plenty of work to get up to a decent standard.

[MosinVirus]

I sure did learn a lot. And the instruction given here was simply irreplaceable. I very much appreciate the sharing of this valuable information and couldn't have done half of what I was able to do on this project. I will consider this project in process until I can get everything right.

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I think you have done a stellar job MosinVirus.
It is a credit to your perseverance, many would have given up.

You have inspired me to continue with my M38 Swedish Mauser project, it too has a warped stock which needs replaced & the replacement needs plenty of work to get up to a decent standard.

Thank you. I hope I will get it to be good even by my standards. New forestock on order. Hopefully that one will be straight.

[browningautorifle]

The rifle looks top rate now...very nice.

[MosinVirus]

The rifle looks top rate now...very nice.

Thank you. Hope it shoots well too. Will find out soon.

[MosinVirus]

Certainly looks 100% better, nice job on the parkerizing too, I gather thats a Zinc based solution? Don't be disappointed either, I,m sure a few on here would be happy to give it a home.

This is a manganese solution from Brownells.

[MosinVirus]

Another update.

Took the rifle to the range. Here is a video:

Recap:

• Front sight on it is -045, and currently it shoots about 18-20" high. The stock and nosecap could be contributing, but I did order 060, 045, 030 and 015 sight blades.
• Got a new forestock and voila, this one is straight. But it is soaked in some preservative like gun oil, and only the front of the stock, which is where I suspect it warps - at the barrel band recess.
• The extractor seems to be a 303 extractor. I had very inconsistent or non-existent extraction. I used a no4 rifle extractor (at least I believe that is what it is) that was sent to me by Numrich as no2 rifle extractor, and reshaped it to work with my rifle.
• The round coming from left in the magazine didn't always want to feed. I reshaped the lips of the magazine, and now both sides feed properly.

I will try to straighten my existing forestock once more using the hot oil method. If it doesn't work, I will move onto the new forestock.