First a short back story: My wife started going with me deer hunting just a few years after we married and eventually wanted her own rifle. Back in those dark ages there wasn't the huge numbers of calibers like there is today so we settled on 30-06 as some shots can be at long distances. My rifle was a light weight '06 and I knew she couldn't handle it's recoil well enough to like it so I found a '17 Enfield in our local pawn shop with a new barrel and purchased it for a whooping $34.50. Long story short, I cut the barrel to 24 inches, recrowned it, straightened the floor plate, redid the bolt handle plus jeweling the bolt and having it drilled and tapped for scope sights as I wasn't set up for that job. I ordered a walnut semi-inletted stock from Herter's, bedded it with acra-glas, checkered the stock, installed a Pachmayer recoil pad, and Timney trigger. It weighed in at a little over 9 pounds with the 2 x 7 scope she wanted and I would do some of the carrying for my her. It would also shoot 1" groups with ordinary 150 gr. Remington Core-Loct ammo. My wife never shot a deer or anything else with it (too soft hearted) although she did take it on an elk hunt where the elk didn't cooperate. She eventually gave it to our oldest grandson and it just sat as he was all into bow hunting. He eventually gave that up as a way to see lots of country with some deer out of range. We got the rifle sighted in last week with Hornady 150 gr. ammo and it shoots it just as good as the old Remington. Yesterday he came home with a nice buck, the first for both him and grandma's old rifle.
I expect a steak for all the work I put in on that gun.
