Early Longbranch pics and some questions...of course.

[ickmann]

For your viewing pleasure. She's a bit filthy, so I disassembled her to clean her up good. Was surprised to see that she was cork bedded. First one for me. It looks like someone was practicing their stamping technique on the cocking piece as almost the whole alphabet is there. Any rhyme or reason to this? Also found it interesting that she has a hole on the left side, exactly where my trade pattern LB sniper has one filled in with weld. Were these for Parker Hale style sight mounting purposes? Then I started to think so far out of the box that maybe these were built from old No.1 MK3 receiver blanks with the safety selector holes pre-drilled before the rest of the machining was completed, left as blanks, then picked up as surplus and re-used for early Longbranch production. Don't think that was possible tho.

Ian

http://s31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...%20Longbranch/

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