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3mctoledo: You can tell the Greek rifles, the s/n is on the mag minus the L.

Your rifle Bearhunter is a very standard 1950 LB late production done in the standard greenish park. (shown are the 4 pics of it he just sent me by email)

I've had Long Branch rifles that I didn't...

Well, like anyone else, I can guess.

We know that Canadian Arsenals switched over to parkerizing some time in 1950-51, around the 93L and up s/n range. It's unlikely that they picked one rifle...

No problem mate. BTW, found this pic in my files.


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It's highly unlikely that any of those items are blued on that rifle. The green park is very subtle, you almost have to hold it side by side with a blued rifle to see it.

Nice- it's a greeny for sure...51 dated bbl like mine. Not sure how much higher the numbers go, 96L is very high.

I've seen green ones and I've seen black ones...both appear to be completely correct.

The magazines are not usually numbered.
Did you find this in Canada or the US?

That's a pretty high serial number, very late production. Is the parkerizing kind of blackish vs greenish?
Is it one of the batch of unissued ones that were around a few years ago? All original?
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Claven- Maybe he's refering to the ones that were actually made for the army. Not DCRA conversions. I've seen one at a gun show. Similar but different.

Very interesting pics! Looks like someone made a home made muzzle device for it...is that milled right out of the barrel or an add on?
That is indeed a DCRA conversion, note the maple leaf proof...

I've seen a couple of those. They were produced in 7.62 for the Canadian Army. The one I saw had a C Broad Arrow on it.

You have a fairly late production 50 marked rifle, definitely parkerized. I'd be interested to know if the barrel is stamped 51, both of mine are.(under the handguard, but don't bother taking it...

Has anyone noted the difference in the Long Branch parkerizing finishes? The early ones and FTR'd wartime rifles seem to be that green colour, I think from zinc chromate.
The later ones, like 55 or...

What is the correct finish for a 42 Long Branch? Would it be blue coloured bluing, black bluing? I might be getting one that's been black painted and looks terrible...

The wartime LB's seem to...

Ouch! I get the brick wall part...

My 1949 was supposedly back from Greece. It had a tag on the triggerguard in Greek...it appeared unissued and it is blued.

Are these rifles for sale or are you in the army?:beerchug:

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