Ok, I wasn't sure what title to give this thread, so I figured a "Mini (T)" was the best possible name to call this project completed by CGN's "Beater".
Where to start this story?
Maybe by first taking a look at what normal people do with a sportered Lee Enfield. If the metal is intact, it's a good candidate for "desporterizing". (And many of you are like Beater and myself: if you do get an "intact" Lee Enfield, you keep it that way!).
But if you have a shortened barrel and holes in the receiver? I suppose you can let your creativity express itself. Nice Monte-Carlo stock maybe; or add a scope mount and an old-school scope; etc. But all this is way too easy for Mr. Beater.
Beater took an un-desporterizeable No4 and spent many, many hours turning it into this very, very interesting "Mini No4Mk1(T)":
I can only guess at the number of hours spent. The forend and the front handguard had to be shortened, and metal cap reinstalled on the forend. The barrel had to be worked on for front sight reinstall; it was recrowned too. Then, fitting the scope mount "plates" on the left side of the receiver; and now that I can take a close look at these plates, they must be a pain to properly align when figuring out where to drill the screw holes. He finished it off by adding the cheek riser. All I had to do is put an old Bushnell scope I had lying around (anything too new would be out of character I think). Ok, that's one of the coolest rifles in my collection
Thanks Beater, I like it!
Where to start this story?
Maybe by first taking a look at what normal people do with a sportered Lee Enfield. If the metal is intact, it's a good candidate for "desporterizing". (And many of you are like Beater and myself: if you do get an "intact" Lee Enfield, you keep it that way!).
But if you have a shortened barrel and holes in the receiver? I suppose you can let your creativity express itself. Nice Monte-Carlo stock maybe; or add a scope mount and an old-school scope; etc. But all this is way too easy for Mr. Beater.
Beater took an un-desporterizeable No4 and spent many, many hours turning it into this very, very interesting "Mini No4Mk1(T)":
I can only guess at the number of hours spent. The forend and the front handguard had to be shortened, and metal cap reinstalled on the forend. The barrel had to be worked on for front sight reinstall; it was recrowned too. Then, fitting the scope mount "plates" on the left side of the receiver; and now that I can take a close look at these plates, they must be a pain to properly align when figuring out where to drill the screw holes. He finished it off by adding the cheek riser. All I had to do is put an old Bushnell scope I had lying around (anything too new would be out of character I think). Ok, that's one of the coolest rifles in my collection
Thanks Beater, I like it!
