Here is my Enfield #4 MK1 Fazakerly that I bought at an auction. All that I started with was the reciever/barrrel, stock and forend that had been refinished and not attached. I bought the trigger, various screws, bolt, and butt plate off Ebay and a magazine from local gun dealer. Well because the stock had been scraped down to refinish it, the butt plate did not fit (way oversized for stock). I changed direction, bought a synthetic stock, scope mount, 3-9 scope, sling and sling mounts. I love the way it looks and it is a blast to shoot.
Enfield #4 MK1 Project
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Drue
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Great job! You brought one back from the dead. Turning junk into a fun-to-shoot rifle is a good thing.
Drue
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I have three just like that minus the scope. The first was in military trim but I didn't care for the stock. I replaced it with one of those Advanced Technologies units and that made a tremendous difference. Not long after some outlet advertised the exact same thing for $99 so I bought two. Turned out one had a decent barrel and the other was a sewer pipe. Final results, two good utility rifles and one parts gun in search of a decent barrel (and still looking).
Probably the most practical rifles I own and I could get along with one of those and nothing more if I had to. Only quirk is short case life if full length sizing, as the chambers and headspace are usually quite generous. Solution is to use the old primitive Lee Loader tool and segregate cases from each rifle.
Definitely low tech but capable.
Probably the most practical rifles I own and I could get along with one of those and nothing more if I had to. Only quirk is short case life if full length sizing, as the chambers and headspace are usually quite generous. Solution is to use the old primitive Lee Loader tool and segregate cases from each rifle.
Definitely low tech but capable.
SMLE
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You now have a great rifle AND...
You didn't vandalize an all original mil-surp doing it.
You didn't vandalize an all original mil-surp doing it.
DMK
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Nice job, but I like the middle pic best. For some reason, the classic lines of the Enfield just don't look right in a synthetic stock and it just has to have that unique Enfield straight wrist stock. But hey, that's just me and my opinion's worth what you paid me for it. 
iamkris
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I got one of the first batches of Indian-owned Enfields that AIM Centerfire and others sold. Mine is a 1943 No 4 Mk 1/2 (e.g., has the Mk 2 mods made to the trigger group) with a micrometer sight. Unfortunately I had "Iwannagunvirus" and paid $139 instead of the $79 they are selling them for later. The good news is that the old war horse is mechanically sound -- bore looks like it was never fired. The bad news is, like others, she is caked head to toe in not only old dirt-laced cosmo (expected) but every nook and cranny is full of grease, dirt and awful black paint.
I swear that the Indian depots pulled these rifles off the line, left them in what ever condition they found them and slapped a coat of black paint on them. Everything is covered in globs of paint. Sort of like a 100 year old house with coats of thick paint over the years but never was stripped.
After breaking her down into every screw and pin, I scubbed every part with mineral spirits and a brass brush (a 2 day process). The metal was completely clean with 5-10% finish left. I then degreased and coated the metal with AlumaHyde II epoxy finish, black, semi-gloss because it seemed to be the closest to the original Suncorite. Set aside all the parts to cure for a week.
I then stripped the stock, baked out all the oil, repaired a wood plug used to make a stock repair but not finished, then sanded and coated with 3 coats of BLO. Reassembled the rifle and it is far better looking than what it started out as...all for less than $20 materials and a couple of full days of labor. Definitely learned a lot about the mechanism in this process.
I've only shot the old 60's vintage POF ammo (complete with the "charming" hang fires every other round). Even with that, she prints 2-1/2" goups at 100 yards in non-ideal conditions (25 deg F and gusting winds, misting).
Glad I did it. Turned a non-collectable beater into something closer to original condition (even there will be those who say I didn't do it true to a restoration).
Here she is in the middle of a few of her friends...snuggling up next to her comrade in arms from the 40's.
I swear that the Indian depots pulled these rifles off the line, left them in what ever condition they found them and slapped a coat of black paint on them. Everything is covered in globs of paint. Sort of like a 100 year old house with coats of thick paint over the years but never was stripped.
After breaking her down into every screw and pin, I scubbed every part with mineral spirits and a brass brush (a 2 day process). The metal was completely clean with 5-10% finish left. I then degreased and coated the metal with AlumaHyde II epoxy finish, black, semi-gloss because it seemed to be the closest to the original Suncorite. Set aside all the parts to cure for a week.
I then stripped the stock, baked out all the oil, repaired a wood plug used to make a stock repair but not finished, then sanded and coated with 3 coats of BLO. Reassembled the rifle and it is far better looking than what it started out as...all for less than $20 materials and a couple of full days of labor. Definitely learned a lot about the mechanism in this process.
I've only shot the old 60's vintage POF ammo (complete with the "charming" hang fires every other round). Even with that, she prints 2-1/2" goups at 100 yards in non-ideal conditions (25 deg F and gusting winds, misting).
Glad I did it. Turned a non-collectable beater into something closer to original condition (even there will be those who say I didn't do it true to a restoration).
Here she is in the middle of a few of her friends...snuggling up next to her comrade in arms from the 40's.
Original Stocks
The butt stock itself is smaller than a normal stock with a repair(an original buttplate did not fit it) Thats when I decided to go with the synthetic stocks, and there were a couple of repairs made to the fore end before I got it. I guess if you used the fore stock, and got another butt stock it would work, I liked the way it looked with the wood stocks also. Got lazy and used synthetic.
The butt stock itself is smaller than a normal stock with a repair(an original buttplate did not fit it) Thats when I decided to go with the synthetic stocks, and there were a couple of repairs made to the fore end before I got it. I guess if you used the fore stock, and got another butt stock it would work, I liked the way it looked with the wood stocks also. Got lazy and used synthetic.
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DMK
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Actually, I like the repairs in the wood. They give it character. Perhaps I'm just weird.
If you do sell the wood and dm1333 doesn't want it, I'd be interested.
If you do sell the wood and dm1333 doesn't want it, I'd be interested.
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