Thread: 410 Enfield

How to squeeze the last bit of life out of a SMLE. A real worthwhile project.

Good luck getting the magazine to feed.

Scratch some ineffectively shallow rifling into the barrel so you can use it on DOC land with .45 Colt / .410 slugs.

So I started on the front wood today, Im not the best at woodworking... Anyway due to lack of a suitable bit of wood Im going to use Rimu, a bit of an old stud. To start with I tried cutting the channel with a hole saw but I couldnt get it deep enough (the drill hitting the rest of the wood) and didnt want to cut the hole saw and weld it back together. Second go I cut a slot along the top and attacked it with a hammer and chisel, followed by power file and sand paper wrapped around the suppressor tube to find the high spots. I didnt get it too smooth as the plan was to glue some fibre glass in there to try and stop it cracking (as Rimu does)



Unfortunately I couldnt find my bag of glass and didnt have much time so it ended up with carbon instead. There were a couple of steps to the gluing, once the epoxy was mixed I painted a layer onto the wood in the channel and wet out the carbon on a sheet of plastic, then I mixed the remaining epoxy with an adhesive filler and spread that into the channel (most of the neat epoxy had soaked in to a degree), then the carbon was placed onto it and clamped down with the suppressor tube. A lazy release agent is packaging tape.