Decades of collecting 3ohs - this vid just made me cry. BTW tis always a good idea the clear the rifle before working on it, yes I can see it's not cocked. Time to give my 3ohs a hug and tell them I love them.
In the 1960's, as a teenager living in a gun culture in North West Illinois, I could have bought one of these as a hunting rile for about $12. I had friends my age who did and cut down (unfortunately) the stock to make it more "sports like." This is the weapon I wouulld chose to take with me (with a lot of 303 rounds) on a dessert Island
@@stewartmcmanus3991Stewart, what are you basing that on? I don't see enough info given in the video to make a qualified opinion one way or the other.
I hope nobody is going to attempt to put a round through it! No barrel bore inspection, magazine not stripped, cleaned and new spring fitted on reassembly, bolt not stripped, cleaned oiled and reassembled . This rifle should only be used as a stage prop!
A lot of the Ishapore Lee Enfields that were imported 15 to 20 years ago were converted to .308 NATO so best to do a chamber cast just to be safe if there's any thought of firing it. Plus, headspacing as others have said. Never assume anything with a milsurp.
It's still missing part of it's rear sight. It can be pointed, but not aimed. The rear sight protectors are installed backwards. The pin that holds the rear sight on the barrel is missing.
Nice work. I still have my Dad's 1942 Enfield. I built one for my son with a composite stock and a nice scope. That one had a barrel made by Savage. Very accurate till the barrel got hot then degraded quickly.
Hope you didn't scrub it with a wire wheel and a stainless steel pot scrubber. His will make an ok wall hanger, but will never have any collector's value. I also wondered if he lives in a country where penetrating oil is not available.
It come apart very easy, watch the struggle opening the bolt. he is seen pushing the bolt closed as he is pulling. The struggle is real. Oh the pipe wrench on the receiver was a nice touch.
Nice job on the rebuild ! Don't pay attention to the "haters" ,be proud that you are doing wonderful with what the Good Lord has blessed you with. Not everyone gets things on a "Silver Platter " or can comprehend starting from the bottom and working you're way up to perfection and Greatness. God bless !
I enjoyed your video showing how to strip and clean the Enfield. I have 4 of them. They are very fine rifles that reflect well on the people who developed them. I have 2 Number 4 Mark 2 in standard military set up, 1 Number 4 Mark 2 that has been customized to be a hunting rifle and a Number 5 Jungle Carbine. Whenever I go to the range other people ask to see it and shoot it! Thanks again for your video… you got a large amount of detail in a small amount of time. Well done!!
Lots of arm chair quarterbacks chiming in here about how you are doing stuff wrong. You took an old thrashed out gun and brought it back to life though, and it looks great. You didn’t sand all of the history and character out of the furniture and you put a finish on it sopimilar to original. Metal looks great. Good job.
@@iandougall7169 sir though I am an Indian but I know rail lines, bridges,famous roads, buildings,postal system are pioneered by British,you people contributed the vast modern history of India
Ok.. a few issues with this.. FIRST AND FOREMOST YOU NEVER WORK ON A GUN WITHOUT CLEARING IT! The attempts at the start to open the breech was pure pantomime.. you DO NOT clear the firearm as the last element in a strip down! It must be the first one. If you can't open the breech you need to prove absence of ammunition by probing the barrel. 1. This is not a British rifle. Yes, it is a copy of a lee Enfield, but it is marked Ishapore 1958. Even if it was made there, which is by no means certain, indeed Peshawar looks more likely.. India and Pakistan became independent in 1948. 2. What are you doing using a vice with serrated jaws to hold the stock? Never do this, always use padding between the jaws and the stock 3. Why are you using a tapered screwdriver on the screws? All you will do is burr over the heads. Use a proper parallel faced gunsmiths screwdriver. 4. Using a steel screwdriver as a drift is very bad practice. You should be using a brass or copper drift to remove a foresight. 5. The rotary steel wheel is far too coarse for this type of work. All you do is strip off the existing finish and obscure the original markings. 6. These rifles should be rust blued, not caustic blued. 7. Are you seriously suggesting that you can remove a barrel from the action by hand with a vice? To do this properly needs a barrel vice and a proper action wrench otherwise you will twist the receiver. You are supposed to headspace the bolt after removing the barrel. I suppose at least the rifle had little or no intrinsic value when you started and therefore no historic damage was done.. but this is not proper gun restoration!
Gordon Bennett! For all the qualified Lee Enfield gunsmiths on here, go into your fully furnished workshops and show us how it's done! This guy obviously has limited tools, and makes do with what he has. He turns 💩 into strawberry jam! You don't see the whole restoration process so you don't know what he has or hasn't done! Hats 🎩 off to this gentleman for tackling the gnarliest back from the dead 303 project I've ever seen! Bravo 👏👏 👍👍👌👌
Nonsense.. if he has the funds to make a video he should take the time to research and learn the proper procedures. This has nothing to do with tools.. this bloke is incompetent and dishonest and is just trying to make a fast buck by exploiting ignorant viewers with a pantomime.. He should not be being praised for it!
@@Harzhopper From the stampings and lack of proof marks it indicates the rifle was made at the Ishapore Rifle Factory in Calcutta (Kolkata) India. Probably is from Indian origin
For cleaning the wooden shaft parts, I successfully worked with oven cleaner. These shafts are mostly soaked with tons of old arsenal grease and oil. Spray generously, let soak it, and clean it with hot water. Side effects, most of the dents in the wood disappear by swelling. Dry slowly for some days. At last using a scraper and steelwool for softening. Then etching and finishing as usual. Wear gloves during process indispensably - acid!!!
I cringed at the start when it was put in the vice. It just got worse from then on, and then finally it was completely obvious this guy has no idea when he painted varnish on the wood work. I'm dying here. Linseed oil for goodness sake. .
Interesting video, personally I would have ditched all the woodwork kept all the rest then looked for some second hand furniture to restore the rifle back to its SMLE originality.
Its Actually Not British Make , but Made In India in Ishapore Rifle Factory , West Bengal, India. Copy of British SMLE .303 MK III , Millions has been produced from Ishapore Rifle Factory as Service Rifle till 1980
It’s not important, but this is an Indian rifle made by Ishapore and sporterised by someone. It would be identical out of the factory to the SMLE mk.3, but after 1950 they switched to a lower quality steel and made some very minor production changes. There were lots of reported distortion issues because of this but Ishapore never rectified it.
In case you missed it, it was manufactured in India. The factory label at 5:12 clearly indicates this. The year of manufacture is 1958 and it was manufactured in ISHAPORE ordinance factory in West Bengal.
Unfortunately most people that chop the the forends down on these and the No4's are not aware of the detrimental effect it has on accuracy on these rifles, they are pressure bedded with springs on the No1 MK3 at the mid point and the nose cap, the tension is adjustable to keep the weapon accurate, chop off the forend and your weapon no longer has the legendary Enfield characteristic of getting more accurate the further the round goes.. ..btw this is an Indian built one, I think the last Brit ones were for the Irish contract in '56 and they were No4's...
The SMLE's .303 British cartridge head-spaces on the rim, as long as the bolt is relatively snug on a chambered round, it should be fine, that said, I would never shoot anything through such a rough bore, if it ain't shiny, no shooty.
Unfortunately it is an ishapore, which is an actual Lee enfield. Ishapore started Lee Enfield production in 1899 under (wait for it) British supervision. So this is not some Khyber pass slap together. It is legitimately a Lee enfield. Or more accurately it was a Lee enfield. Now it’s just a wood and metal club
@@panzerlieb The markings on the right side of the wrist are totally incorrect for a 1950s RFI rifle, the barrel was loose, the front sight base wasn't brazed on, the bolt head catch spring groove wasn't cut square ... need I go on? This is without question a Khyber Pass copy.
Hello. Have you fired the rifle yet? Well done tidying up one of thousands of chopped/sporterised Lee Enfields. Way more of them than original unfortunately, but that's what happened way back post war years. Ignore the negative "experts". You can always tie the rifle securely to an old tyre and use a length of string to pull the trigger to be safe. Good luck with it. Looks like a million dollars compared to previous state!
I promise you that we won't reset this educational video. We know that you've already listened and watched it only once. How else do you expect to be someone who moves on? There are other guns both past and present that are getting restored.
The country I live was equipped with both American and (mostly) British military aid during and after WW2. Lots of military stuff is now bought and developed in Europe though. During my initial first weeks of my service for Her Majesty Queen Beatrix in 1986-1987 I remember we had these deactivated Enfield rifles no. 4 that were only used in cross country drills so that you could get accustomed to the weight and feel of a rifle, without having to use our FALs. I've never seen any other British rifle from the Lee Enfield series.
When I joined the R.A.F. back in the late seventies we used old Lee-Enfield No4 rifles rebuilt to resemble L1A1 SLR’s for drill, we carried those things everywhere we went after the second week of training, we even carried them on our formal passing out parade as there was, apparently, a shortage of L1A1 rifles at the time.
I know the bolt appeared stuck, but there are other ways of finding out if the gun is loaded or not. There could have been one in the breech while you were messing with the trigger. A pipe wrench to take the barrel off !! I think not. this person clearly knows little about firearms. All that wire wheel will do is take the bluing off. Terrible restoration of a rifle worthy of a proper work on it.
22:15 shows the markings, its was made in 1958, in ISHAPORE (AKA Ichhapore, West Bengal, India) Rifle Factory. Its still active today. Question is - how can it be called British rifle ? They were gone by then.
@@Restoration_vala hello my friend, i cleaned my mauser 98 rifle as i said by sandblasting it was great but small pits appeared on the barrel due to corrosion, how can I fill them? If I fill them with the steel putty used in car bodies, make them smooth with sandpaper and paint, will there be any problems in the future? I'm curious about your opinion, what do you think I should do?
Hate to be those types of gun enthusiasts chief but that's a Ishapore, basically a Lee Enfield except in many cases chambered for 7.62x51mm NATO, or 8.50mmR Mannlicher
A full length stock would have made the restoration. He did well with what he had!
Good job.... almost cried with the vice jaws on bare wood and pipe wrench on bare steel at the beginning though.
hope he never puts some rounds through it
Gee that made cringe
Decades of collecting 3ohs - this vid just made me cry. BTW tis always a good idea the clear the rifle before working on it, yes I can see it's not cocked. Time to give my 3ohs a hug and tell them I love them.
Ouch! Right off the bat; Clamping the wood stock in the steel jaws of the vice.
That one move tells you the guy doesn't know guns!
And the filing of the sight...WTF???
I was saying that under my breath. what are you DOING, put a rag or something there. sad
lol everyone saw that and cringed
I cringed and had to stop watching
those who can do, those who can't criticize.
Successfully murdered a piece of history......Congratulations.
Made to the 38 second mark that was all I needed to see
Yep, I'm out 🙄
Yep this guy don’t know horse pucky from corn syrup!
Great example on how to butcher a rifle. Every screw mangled by using improper tools.
Sometimes you can peen over a damaged screw with a ball peen hammer and recut the slot to minimalize the damage.
The rifle was already butchered, shame really
In the 1960's, as a teenager living in a gun culture in North West Illinois, I could have bought one of these as a hunting rile for about $12. I had friends my age who did and cut down (unfortunately) the stock to make it more "sports like." This is the weapon I wouulld chose to take with me (with a lot of 303 rounds) on a dessert Island
It's not 303 it's 7.62. Used by the Indian army as NATO compatible.
I bought 2 British Enfield, one is a 1942 the other 1953. 30 years ago. The 1942 has Property of US on it. Got both for under $100.00.
@@stewartmcmanus3991Most are 303 like the No1 and No4. The 7.62 is the ishapor 21a.
@@stewartmcmanus3991Stewart, what are you basing that on? I don't see enough info given in the video to make a qualified opinion one way or the other.
I hope nobody is going to attempt to put a round through it! No barrel bore inspection, magazine not stripped, cleaned and new spring fitted on reassembly, bolt not stripped, cleaned oiled and reassembled . This rifle should only be used as a stage prop!
No headspace guages used. Unsupported Reciever taken off Barrel.
Didn’t see if he checked the headspace either. Very important on the Lee Enfields.
A lot of the Ishapore Lee Enfields that were imported 15 to 20 years ago were converted to .308 NATO so best to do a chamber cast just to be safe if there's any thought of firing it. Plus, headspacing as others have said. Never assume anything with a milsurp.
@@Diogenes-ty9yy Excellent advice!
Wrong on soo many levels!. Nice wall hanger!. I've owned a .303 mk 4 and I would not fire that weapon. It's not an 1950's build!. Nuff said.
Great to see this classic looking cared for again.
It's still missing part of it's rear sight. It can be pointed, but not aimed. The rear sight protectors are installed backwards. The pin that holds the rear sight on the barrel is missing.
and strange way to remove topwood/handguard, also the reassembly
Nice work. I still have my Dad's 1942 Enfield. I built one for my son with a composite stock and a nice scope. That one had a barrel made by Savage. Very accurate till the barrel got hot then degraded quickly.
me too
Having dismantled hundreds of Enfields I can catagorically state I have never had one come apart that easy.
TRUTH
Hope you didn't scrub it with a wire wheel and a stainless steel pot scrubber. His will make an ok wall hanger, but will never have any collector's value. I also wondered if he lives in a country where penetrating oil is not available.
With a pipe wrench no less!!! May well be India or Pakistan, what with the 220 volt power.
or that crudely without lubrication. I guess in his eyes, just beat
it apart
It come apart very easy, watch the struggle opening the bolt. he is seen pushing the bolt closed as he is pulling. The struggle is real. Oh the pipe wrench on the receiver was a nice touch.
Nice job on the rebuild ! Don't pay attention to the "haters" ,be proud that you are doing wonderful with what the Good Lord has blessed you with. Not everyone gets things on a "Silver Platter " or can comprehend starting from the bottom and working you're way up to perfection and Greatness. God bless !
Thank you 🖤
Wonderfull work and beautyfull rifle
I enjoyed your video showing how to strip and clean the Enfield. I have 4 of them. They are very fine rifles that reflect well on the people who developed them. I have 2 Number 4 Mark 2 in standard military set up, 1 Number 4 Mark 2 that has been customized to be a hunting rifle and a Number 5 Jungle Carbine. Whenever I go to the range other people ask to see it and shoot it! Thanks again for your video… you got a large amount of detail in a small amount of time. Well done!!
It's so good to see a restorer who treats the subject carefully and don't go in aggressively with power tools!
Dher Kha ustajee
Nice job. They are great old rifles. I still hunt with a BSA Lee Enfield.
Lots of arm chair quarterbacks chiming in here about how you are doing stuff wrong. You took an old thrashed out gun and brought it back to life though, and it looks great. You didn’t sand all of the history and character out of the furniture and you put a finish on it sopimilar to original. Metal looks great. Good job.
Absolutely. You'd think he had sawn a fully wooded mint milsurp in half! 😉
So you protect the barrel in the vice but not the wood stock
Fantastic job mate . Thanks for the video .
I am proud to be an indian,ishapore ordinance factory is in West Bengal,India
I am British and I have noticed many great engineers and skilled mechanics come from your part of the world
@@iandougall7169 sir though I am an Indian but I know rail lines, bridges,famous roads, buildings,postal system are pioneered by British,you people contributed the vast modern history of India
Magnificent. One round of test firing would have been excellent. ❤
Я не советовал бы стрелять из этой винтовки после такого мастера
@@ким-к1ч Да!
never happen with these channels cause nothing they do is functional in anyway
Ok.. a few issues with this..
FIRST AND FOREMOST YOU NEVER WORK ON A GUN WITHOUT CLEARING IT!
The attempts at the start to open the breech was pure pantomime.. you DO NOT clear the firearm as the last element in a strip down! It must be the first one. If you can't open the breech you need to prove absence of ammunition by probing the barrel.
1. This is not a British rifle. Yes, it is a copy of a lee Enfield, but it is marked Ishapore 1958. Even if it was made there, which is by no means certain, indeed Peshawar looks more likely.. India and Pakistan became independent in 1948.
2. What are you doing using a vice with serrated jaws to hold the stock? Never do this, always use padding between the jaws and the stock
3. Why are you using a tapered screwdriver on the screws? All you will do is burr over the heads. Use a proper parallel faced gunsmiths screwdriver.
4. Using a steel screwdriver as a drift is very bad practice. You should be using a brass or copper drift to remove a foresight.
5. The rotary steel wheel is far too coarse for this type of work. All you do is strip off the existing finish and obscure the original markings.
6. These rifles should be rust blued, not caustic blued.
7. Are you seriously suggesting that you can remove a barrel from the action by hand with a vice? To do this properly needs a barrel vice and a proper action wrench otherwise you will twist the receiver. You are supposed to headspace the bolt after removing the barrel.
I suppose at least the rifle had little or no intrinsic value when you started and therefore no historic damage was done.. but this is not proper gun restoration!
Maybe he should watch mark novaks channel
@@troyhales1064 I would agree!
Outstanding!
Everyone should.This clown is a danger to weapons,even a shabby handmade copy like this one.
Exactly my thoughts… told him do in my response above. The gun is totally worthless now.
Nice work.
Looks to be a Dara copy of an Ishapore No.1 MkIII*.
A very well made copy too.
Nice decoration piece restored 😊
Good work🎉
The SMLE was not 1958.
Possibly rebarrelled in 58.
G oye lala chaa gia
No me canso, por ver este video.
You did a nice job!
Great restoration!!!!
Glad you like it!
Gordon Bennett! For all the qualified Lee Enfield gunsmiths on here, go into your fully furnished workshops and show us how it's done! This guy obviously has limited tools, and makes do with what he has. He turns 💩 into strawberry jam! You don't see the whole restoration process so you don't know what he has or hasn't done! Hats 🎩 off to this gentleman for tackling the gnarliest back from the dead 303 project I've ever seen! Bravo 👏👏 👍👍👌👌
Nonsense.. if he has the funds to make a video he should take the time to research and learn the proper procedures. This has nothing to do with tools.. this bloke is incompetent and dishonest and is just trying to make a fast buck by exploiting ignorant viewers with a pantomime..
He should not be being praised for it!
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he is probably from indian origen
@@Harzhopper From the stampings and lack of proof marks it indicates the rifle was made at the Ishapore Rifle Factory in Calcutta (Kolkata) India. Probably is from Indian origin
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well done. Thank you.
It started it's life as a 1958 No.1 mkIII, Ishapore (Indian Arsenal) Rifle.
You didn’t even try in lift the bolt. You lightly tapped it.
beautiful !
For cleaning the wooden shaft parts, I successfully worked with oven cleaner. These shafts are mostly soaked with tons of old arsenal grease and oil. Spray generously, let soak it, and clean it with hot water. Side effects, most of the dents in the wood disappear by swelling.
Dry slowly for some days. At last using a scraper and steelwool for softening. Then etching and finishing as usual. Wear gloves during process indispensably - acid!!!
The rifle is back to life, congratulations Master..
But no test firing, not good
head spaceing?
Great job
Gteat restoration 😊
Nice very nice
Made in India, nice work!
Nice work. I'm glad you left the wooden parts with some 'character', and didn't try to smooth every dent and line away.
Or put pads on the vice and put some new ones.
PB Blaster worked good on my last restore....and a chamber ream
Nice Job.
Great video on how to destroy an Enfield!
Very nice.
Don't ever touch another Enfield again , learn how to disassemble a gun correctly before attacking the action with a pipe wrench .
And wire wheel,sandpaper etc😳
exactly….near made me gag when i saw that
I cringed at the start when it was put in the vice. It just got worse from then on, and then finally it was completely obvious this guy has no idea when he painted varnish on the wood work. I'm dying here. Linseed oil for goodness sake. .
It's obvious the bolt was free from the beginning. Even when he tapped it with the screwdriver you can see he's holding it forward with his fingers.
what do you expect from fake restoration channels
you really need some soft jaws for that vice
This is a kid in Pakistan doing the work . Explains the pipe wrench and file work .
First step in this restoration. Put wood stock in metal vise to mark up and damage wood making more work.
Interesting video, personally I would have ditched all the woodwork kept all the rest then looked for some second hand furniture to restore the rifle back to its SMLE originality.
Very weldone and Keep it up. :)
I wish he had given some indication how he restored the bore of the weapon since that's the business end.
Its Actually Not British Make , but Made In India in Ishapore Rifle Factory , West Bengal, India. Copy of British SMLE .303 MK III , Millions has been produced from Ishapore Rifle Factory as Service Rifle till 1980
Actually an Indian copy of the British SMLE No. 1 Mk. 3/3*
As soon as you put the wood in that metal vice I couldn't watch.
It’s not important, but this is an Indian rifle made by Ishapore and sporterised by someone. It would be identical out of the factory to the SMLE mk.3, but after 1950 they switched to a lower quality steel and made some very minor production changes. There were lots of reported distortion issues because of this but Ishapore never rectified it.
Bloody hell. Poor thing looks like it was buried in a swamp! The end result is - stunning!
(The production is next-level. Had to add that.)
That was the most satisfying half hour of my life. Top work
Glad you enjoyed it!
Why not Gun Stock Oil? Looks better than varnish and last longer.
Beautiful. Well done.
Done without strap and buttcap ?😢
Did they not have a butt plate too???
WOW , very nice
This restoration was beautifully done it looks it’s age and not brand new
Magnificent job you did restoring the British rifle. It looks much better now. Excellent work.
In case you missed it, it was manufactured in India. The factory label at 5:12 clearly indicates this. The year of manufacture is 1958 and it was manufactured in ISHAPORE ordinance factory in West Bengal.
Agree. He did a great job considering how damned rough it was!
The first ever blot action accurately ever used for war works smoothly worthy...
Good work
Unfortunately most people that chop the the forends down on these and the No4's are not aware of the detrimental effect it has on accuracy on these rifles, they are pressure bedded with springs on the No1 MK3 at the mid point and the nose cap, the tension is adjustable to keep the weapon accurate, chop off the forend and your weapon no longer has the legendary Enfield characteristic of getting more accurate the further the round goes.. ..btw this is an Indian built one, I think the last Brit ones were for the Irish contract in '56 and they were No4's...
What an AMAZING & OUTSTANDING TRANSFORMATION/RESTORATION 😊
Get you a full-length/non-sporterized stock for that thing and it'll look almost as good as from the factory I'd bet.
Good ❤.
It started as a Tomato stake and now its a polished tomato stake.
👍😍Beatiful
Wow my Lee Enfield took some force to get the butt stock off, and the barrel is another story but glad he is restoring it
Whats the point in pretending the bolt is stuck?
Fantastic 😍
I hope you headspace that rifle before you shot it . Once the barrel is off it must be reheadspaced . Safty first !
The SMLE's .303 British cartridge head-spaces on the rim, as long as the bolt is relatively snug on a chambered round, it should be fine, that said, I would never shoot anything through such a rough bore, if it ain't shiny, no shooty.
bloody good gun I own one find In a barn In Europe
No Lee Enfields were harmed in the making of this video; that rifle is a Khyber Pass special.
Unfortunately it is an ishapore, which is an actual Lee enfield. Ishapore started Lee Enfield production in 1899 under (wait for it) British supervision.
So this is not some Khyber pass slap together. It is legitimately a Lee enfield.
Or more accurately it was a Lee enfield. Now it’s just a wood and metal club
@@panzerlieb The markings on the right side of the wrist are totally incorrect for a 1950s RFI rifle, the barrel was loose, the front sight base wasn't brazed on, the bolt head catch spring groove wasn't cut square ... need I go on? This is without question a Khyber Pass copy.
Hello. Have you fired the rifle yet? Well done tidying up one of thousands of chopped/sporterised Lee Enfields. Way more of them than original unfortunately, but that's what happened way back post war years. Ignore the negative "experts". You can always tie the rifle securely to an old tyre and use a length of string to pull the trigger to be safe. Good luck with it. Looks like a million dollars compared to previous state!
I really appreciate it sir. Im actually waiting for the bullet that I had ordered for it once I get it I shoot it.
Great 👍. Hope it still reasonably accurate 🤞
@@Adrian_3006 yea its working well
Let me know how it goes when you have shot it!? 👍
What , no soft jaws!
I promise you that we won't reset this educational video. We know that you've already listened and watched it only once. How else do you expect to be someone who moves on? There are other guns both past and present that are getting restored.
Well done, it was quite beaten up before.
All well done but I do not understand what kind of rear sight it's wearing. Or are few parts missing there.?
The country I live was equipped with both American and (mostly) British military aid during and after WW2. Lots of military stuff is now bought and developed in Europe though. During my initial first weeks of my service for Her Majesty Queen Beatrix in 1986-1987 I remember we had these deactivated Enfield rifles no. 4 that were only used in cross country drills so that you could get accustomed to the weight and feel of a rifle, without having to use our FALs. I've never seen any other British rifle from the Lee Enfield series.
When I joined the R.A.F. back in the late seventies we used old Lee-Enfield No4 rifles rebuilt to resemble L1A1 SLR’s for drill, we carried those things everywhere we went after the second week of training, we even carried them on our formal passing out parade as there was, apparently, a shortage of L1A1 rifles at the time.
I know the bolt appeared stuck, but there are other ways of finding out if the gun is loaded or not. There could have been one in the breech while you were messing with the trigger. A pipe wrench to take the barrel off !! I think not. this person clearly knows little about firearms. All that wire wheel will do is take the bluing off. Terrible restoration of a rifle worthy of a proper work on it.
Does the gun actually fire ???
Dear, is it a deko? Did You shoot from this gun?
Little scrubbing more required on wooden stock as there are little bit uneven on stalks and covers of the Gun .
Слушай хорошая винтовка! Мне больше приходилось иметь дело с Гевер-43. Очень точная и мощность отменная. Истенно Немецкое качество.
Amazing 🤩
Magnificent. Excellent work.
Это плохая отвратительная работа
No criticism, but, that vise could use some "SOFT" jaws. Tks for the video!
22:15 shows the markings, its was made in 1958, in ISHAPORE (AKA Ichhapore, West Bengal, India) Rifle Factory. Its still active today. Question is - how can it be called British rifle ? They were gone by then.
You are wrong, the barrel cover above and below is missing and the viewfinder is wrong, it is practically not a lee enfield
It’s an Indian made SMLE that has been “sporterised” probably for hunting.
Does it give better results to clean metal parts with a sandblasting machine ? ? ?
Its much more better
@@Restoration_vala hello my friend, i cleaned my mauser 98 rifle as i said by sandblasting it was great
but small pits appeared on the barrel due to corrosion, how can I fill them?
If I fill them with the steel putty used in car bodies, make them smooth with sandpaper and paint, will there be any problems in the future?
I'm curious about your opinion, what do you think I should do?
try to use a very thin sand paper on in make sure its very thin so that in did not damage you barrel's surface.
Hate to be those types of gun enthusiasts chief but that's a Ishapore, basically a Lee Enfield except in many cases chambered for 7.62x51mm NATO, or 8.50mmR Mannlicher