No1 MKIII refinish ideas

[Fox]

Well I got a 1941 No1 MKIII from my brother and well it is not in great shape on the outside that is for sure. There is a little pitting and rust around the muzzle, pitting and surface rust on the action and the stock, besides being bubba'ed is nicked up pretty good. It is still a good shooter, well for an enfield. My thoughts were to refinish in some sorts for use as a backup deer gun. Now that the dollar is nicely on par I was thinking of a black synthetic stock, with a B-square mount for a 1.5-4 scope, this would be for Ontario bush.

My main question regards the metal parts. What options are out there to refinish the metal, I want to keep it matte and well seeing that it is a very cheap dime a dozen gun, I was thinking an inexpensive as possible.

Can you paint these with a flat black high heat paint? Will that hold up to the use and abuse in the bush?

Any ideas would be great, I was hoping for a durable matte finish, or someone can buy the thing off me and restore it.

Thanks guys

 

[Northman999]

I was thinking of doing one with high heat matte black stove paint myself, but haven't gotten around to it. I'll bet it works fine. And it will keep you from over-investing in the rifle and you can always do touch ups if needed, but stove paint is pretty tough.

 

[Scum Frog]

I finally finished my Enfield project!


I added a new ATI black sythetic stock, topped it off with a Bushnell Banner 3-9x40 scope and had the 10 shot magazine cut to 6 shots.


I took my first deer with the rifle. Other rifles have come and gone, but for some reason I have always held on to this old girl. She has taken a back seat to my other love, my Win 94 lately, but these changes will breath new life in an already great rifle.

Now topped with a good general purpose scope and lighter synthetic stock she is ready to handle anything I can hunt here in Ontario.

Next steps is sight in for my upcoming moose hunt in October.

 

[casterpollox]

I also put a black synthetic stock on my Enfield this year, topped it with that BSquare scope mount and man does it look good.

I'm now considering redoing the metal parts with that ceramacoat stuff. The bake on paint that's supposed to be tough as nails. Instead of black I was thinking about going tan and then doing some sort of stripe job with black.

That ceramacoat isn't that expensive and was made for rifles so I might try that instead of stove paint. But I'm no expert on that high heat paint. It might work after all.