The restoration of a Cond. IV .22

[Roy]

The remains of this 1892 Sparkbrook MLM II - Cond. II 1905 (EFD) - SHT .22 III - .22 IV* (NZ) Came from the basement of the late Din Collings of Wellington. I scrounged around for enough parts to complete it as a range pattern style rifle until I had the parts to put it back to what it might have looked like circa 1927 when it was rebarreled and converted to a MkIV* by the NZ army replacing its earlier conversions of MLE rifles to a .22 trainers.
The work involved heavy reconstruction of a pretty far gone rear handguard and making from scratch a front one, fortunately I have nice set of Mk1 wood work to copy. The most tricky bit was extending my MLE range pattern stock and inletting it by hand for a Sht LE Mk1 nosecap. A messed up SMLE nosecap was sacrificed in order to make a test fitting template.

It was quite a interesting few days in the workshop and i'm quite pleased with the results.

Thanks to stevesmle for answering my many questions on Cond. rifles

-it was a Cond II not a Cond IV, but you cant edit the title.

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