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[blacknblue]

Thanks! I will check them out.

Later Edited:

I checked them out. The cheapest I found, and it was a retro fitted version with a cut down barrel, was going for a current bid of $360 and still had four days of bidding to go. Ouch! Not when my last automatic cost about $250. I can't spare that much on a fixed income, no matter how much I love them.

[CX]

I don't suppose anyone knows where I could get replacement stock parts for a .303, do they? I'm missing the wood along the top of the barrel and the retaining bands.

[Distracted]

You don't have a licensed gun shop where you are, CX? I know it's just the stock and not the actual workings of the gun, but working on guns is tricky business. If you want the balance right and the appearance preserved I'd always take a fine weapon to a professional.

[Mitchell]

What she said. ^^


I know that in the past the http://www.sportsmansguide.com/ has had parts for 303s time an again. Including stocks I think. Dont know if they have any now.

Or you could try http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/ArticlesIndex.asp. I think theyve carried some parts for the 303s to.

[CX]

I need the parts before I can have anything done by anyone though.

[blacknblue]

Are you talking about one of those WW1 sniper rifles? Those things are gorgeous when they are properly preserved.

[CX]

No, it's a Type IV .303 Enfield, made in 1945.

[blacknblue]

Those are nice too. Very nice.

Edit:

Actually, I just looked. I thought I was right about this. That general style of Enfield .303, according to what I was able to dig up in casual searching, was the UK's standard rifle from the turn of the century until about 1957 or so. Ergo, I guess we are talking about the same general type of rifle.

In either case, they are perhaps the finest deer rifles in existence. IMO anyway. And unless somebody has butchered the stock and ruined the balance, I have never shot a rifle of that caliber or anywhere near it, that kicks so little.

From wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Enfield#Sniper_rifles

Lee-Enfield conversions
Canadian Sergeant sniper Harold Marshall carries a No. 4 Mk. I (T).
Canadian Sergeant sniper Harold Marshall carries a No. 4 Mk. I (T).

During both World Wars and the Korean War, a number of Lee-Enfield rifles were modified for use as sniper rifles.
[edit] Sniper rifles

The Australian Army modified 1,612[66] Lithgow SMLE No1 Mk III* rifles by adding a heavy target barrel, cheek-piece, and a World War One era Pattern 1918 telescope, creating the SMLE No1 Mk III* (HT). (HT standing for "Heavy Barrel, Telescopic Sight[67]), which saw service in WWII, Korea, and Malaya and was used for Sniper Training through to the late 1970s.[68]

[Navigator]

There is also Auctionarms.com and the Ruger forum. Me, I'm an S&W guy.