In the work shoppe of recovery

Since my heart attack back on the 1st of Aug, my boat project has pretty much ground to a halt.

My road to recovery is well under way now, only took 16wks(  ) to get the procedure to unclog a major  artery.

So to keep myself occupied with something fun and with minimal strain I found this and decided to work on cleaning it up and replace any missing parts if possible.

It is a true PH custom #1, with correct Sile stocks and scope mount, built on a Lithgow action to boot, and all this fun for a measly $350, just couldn`t pass it up.

Here`s a couple pic from the guy I got it from, I`ll post more when I`m done with it.

As seen in the first picture, it needs the front sight hood, K98 hood perhaps, there`s lots of them abouts for cheap...

I also picked up another Enfield sort of project, I`ll discuss at a later date still rounding up parts for it, thus my last two threads in the wanted forum.

Shamu wrote: Sorry to hear about the ol ticker, welcome back.

Thanks Shamu,

no one to blame but myself, 45 yrs of smoking took its toll, so there you have it, if you smoke, don`t.

I`ve quit, its been 4 months so far, and its still hard.

But on the up side, the cash I`m saving is going back into my hobbies, boats, guns and bikes.

 

So the PH custom #1 arrived the other day, and its in decent shape 8/10 overall condition. missing a couple bits to make it complete, but overall I`m happy.

My other project arrived as well, one I took a gamble on.

Turns out a .222 Rem converted No1 mkIII  was a waist of money, well not a lot of money but a waist just the same.

The fellow I got it from claims he knew nothing about it. The barrel used to convert is a pristine No7 barrel (now ruined and not even indexed correctly), rendering the use of any bullet over 50grns useless and would need to be no greater than .223 dia.

The receiver and bold match and are SSA manufactured, though the charger bridge is missing and has 3 terribly executed holes drilled for some kind of mount.

Im so disappointed, not at myself but for the bubba d**k who did this to an SSA No1 MkIII rifle.

It has a mag cut off action, so I installed one of my cut offs, and put a Lithgow stock disc in just for shytes and giggles

The scopes` a Bushnell Prime, 6-18x50 side focus, target turrets.