Thread: A new lease on life

I was in the local gun shop and spotted a poor old neglected parker hale (so the tag said)chambered in .308 built on a Mauser 98 action propped in the corner the bluing was non existent, the tip broken and checkering half worn and in last inch of the barrel the rifling was non existent, the recoil pad was munted and the scope rail had been soldered on.
Im a sucker for a project so it came home with me, after giving it a good clean i found it was not a parker hale but a Churchill.
so out in the shed we went first to come of was the scope rail barrel was cut back to 18" and the front sight soldered back on then reblued, stock rubbed back to remove the last of the checkering, i had gotten some rosewood to replace the tip and pommel but was to small in profile so used some Jarrah instead. Had to replace the white inlay as the original (bone of some sort) crumbled to dust, recoil pad arrived Saturday and needed almost on fitting.
loaded up some 150grn whinchester power points with 44grns of 2208 and of to the range this arvo to see how it shoots all in all im quite happy on how it came out,50yrds open sights prone