Evening gents,
My little brother passed away roughly a year ago, bummer. I have his old .303 brit and decided to pull it out of the sage and start cleaning it up to hopefully load and shoot.
It is marked lithgow mark III☆ 1942. The receiver and bolt have matching numbers, and the buttstock has the mark iii and date of 1943. I have no idea if it is all original. It looks like at some point, someone used some type of lacquer on the stock. It is kind of a gummy mess. Also most of the parts are painted black, although most of the paint is flaking. The bore slugs at .315, and looks like it has had old corrosive ammo shot in it and not cleaned properly.
I am trying to get the bore cleaned up, and keep getting more junk out of it. It is beginning to clean up though.
Here is what I know about it: The lithgows were made in Australia. It has a 1 in 12, 5 groove bore. It does not have the magazine detach plate. It is much smaller an lighter than the Enfield I carried as a kid.
Any assistance in cleaning it up, and further knowledge than what I know would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Ken