r/canadaguns • u/nammaheff • Mar 20 '26

Milsurps / Prohib How'd I do?

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Picked up a sporter SMLE today on the cheap. clean bore, good finish, decent wood. The trigger is maybe the smoothest Enfield trigger I've ever felt. pretty excited to shoot it!

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u/ThePoeticJester Mar 21 '26

Nice man! Not too hard to restore if you wanted. A great way to do it is to order a DP rifle for cheap and steal the parts and wood

Plus then you have spares

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u/scotheath Mar 21 '26

I was under the impression that it wasn’t that easy. I was told it takes a good gunsmith or whoever does wood work to fit the 2 together. They were produced 1 gun at a time so not all wood interchangeable, I’ve got a friend with 2 sportsters he’s thought about putting one of them back to original, maybe he was misinformed

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u/ThePoeticJester Mar 21 '26

They are mass produced firearms so yeah there will be some fitting needed when you mix around the wood and such but its usually not that bad like hand tools and maybe some wood filler unless your gun/wood is warped or fucky

Also dont sand the fuck out of it, rounds edges and ruins fitting. The main issue is when the barrel is chopped and sporter shit all fucked about, then its a pain in the dick