restoration of Mk III .303

I have read and while it may be a horror story for you, I think it will serve as a warning for the rest of us.
And I must say, restoring this gun is prooving to be more complicated than I first thought.
 
jocle12 said:
I have read and while it may be a horror story for you, I think it will serve as a warning for the rest of us.
And I must say, restoring this gun is prooving to be more complicated than I first thought.
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Take your time and follow the advice you have been given above. It will take considerable time to accumulate what you need. The prices of the parts may seem high but do not go cheap. The time that you invest with a cheap stock may not be worth it when you could for have a better fitting one that fits properly.

Your project is commendable and the time that you spend in the search for parts and the eventual bringing them together can not be measured in $s/hour!

My horror story should be a warning but unfortunately many persons have no conception that for instance, trying to refinish the blueing on a 120 year old Winchester or whatever, destroys much of the value that it had untouched.
 
There is a deep feeling of satisfaction the first time you fire one you brough back to life. but dont do this thinking you'll increase the value of a SMLE and turn a profit
with a 100$ smle and 250$ worth of parts you'll have yourself a 300$ rifle heheh

Pair of my restores

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im a cutoff plate and a rear sight protector away from my third
 
Those are 2 nice smle. There is a stock set on eBay that I might pick up, strip,fix dents, stain and varnish. It looks like nice wood originally but may have seen rougher days. What do you guys think?
 
Restoration complete

Ok so for those who are interested, I have completed the restoration of my Mk3 thanks to a great CGNer who helped me through every step of the way.

Here it is

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Now looking forward to restoring a No4!!
 
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