Thread: Idea

Hi Folks.

One of my neighbour's has a family 303 that their father had but is surplus to his requirements as he doesn't shoot deer any more.

He just duckshoots and fly fishes now due to his maturing age.

He has gifted said 303 to me(I sighted his licence and he sighted mine).

She's a cut down SMLE 1915 complete with matching numbers etc.

This also happened to be when I was debating about doing a Bush rifle idea thats tough as hell etc.

I'll have to give the barrel a solid cleaning (it came with CAC ammo in the boxes!)

So my query is for those out there what road could one go down?

I have a few ideas being that it's not in restorable order.

My idea was to leave it as is in 303, mount a scout style scope in place on the rear sight, shorten to 16" and suppress with a trigger Job.

Plus for good measure pop a slip on recoil pad over the brass one as the Buttstock is original.

I'm wanting to keep it cheap but I'm open to other ideas too.

As long as it ticks the boxes of cheap(sub $500), Can get out to 250 with factory ammo on reds as some of our clearings down here when we Bush hunt can be big.


I hope that for many of you lucky enough to get out for a Stag have achieved what you aimed to do :-)

Cheers