A new life for....

[Aughnanure]

Duncan,

Thanks for the morale booster!!

Have put in a better photo but from Photobucket as Picassa, for some weird reason is sending original pics even though they've been cropped.

[Aughnanure]

The finished product except for the action pin and the rere sight.

[Dave 101]

Good to something being revived like this .

Dave

[Niner]

Looks good, Eoin. Now....are you going to shoot it and let us know how it does punching holes in paper?

[Aughnanure]

Definitely, I'm working on the sight now.

The rifle was stamped .32/20 on the barrel and I thought that it was one of the many thousands that were re-chambered for that round (mainly the rim grouve was deepened) but it won't accept a .32/20 so was probably so stamped to make it look legal in the times when the .310 was deemed to be a military calibre in NSW.
The trick was to turn the rims on a few .32/20s so that they'd go into the chamber (if it was lose enough) and "Yes, Officer, it's a .32/20, see this .32 Winchester round slips straight in".

The .310 is a better and more powerful round anyway in modern re-loadings.