Thread: BSA model E 303

Here are some happy snaps of the stock which I started playing with weeks ago but never took pics.
Pics of the action which I just got back today from my friendly gunsmith from the shooting club.
Bluing is a as good as I can get from a cold blue. He redid it with an oxpho blue because the other chemicals just didn't take and wasn't happy with it.
Suffice to say I am.
The picatinny mounts are a made from a single one piece sun optic picatinny rail that fitted, was level etc. with no shimming, so he drilled and tapped it to suit after cutting it up to match the action. He tried boresighting a scope from one of his rifles and seemed ok so ran with it.
None of the scope mounts that are meant to fit, did without shimming etc.Looks good to me

Ive drilled the stock for home-made cross bolts made from brake rivets drilled and tapped for 5mm screws.
If I was going to leave them visible, I would've made each end from rivets so they looked a bit more original but as I am going to cover them with plugs I thought meh.

Drilled the cracks for dowels, washed the cracks out with brake cleaner and white spirits then epoxied the dowels and cross bolts in at the same time as I glued the cracks. I was able to spread the stock apart to wash it out as well as get glue into the cracks.
What is hard to see is I drilled though the split down the tang of the stock (just behind the rear action screw hole, and epoxied a piece of 6mm threaded rod about 75mm long down in there

Also made up some threaded pillars from alloy (@Mickey Duck). You can see the front one trial fitted. I tapped the stock to suit the threaded pillar. The rear isn't done as I didn't have a drill bit that would fit my drill chuck. The rear is slightly larger, the front I just ran a tap down it.
These will be epoxied in Once I fit them to the action to get the correct clearance for the mag box.
Going to bed the action so a bit of tidying to do in there.
Thanks to @Nga for helping me with some ebony for the crossbolt plugs.
Only thing is Jim also did a fantastic job of cleaning out the barrel and while it still isn't flash, it is actually better than I thought.
Worst part is now Jim has told me that the now you can tell that the last 2 inches of the barrel are buggered so I should cut it off and recrown it. Its 600mm approx.(24") from roughly the start of the barrel to the muzzle so it will be down to a 22 incher after I'm done.
Ah well
more to come once I get my shit sorted