'02' serial number prefaced by two 1's laid short-short over each other. Marked Long Branch No4 Mk1 1941, no other serial markings, all metal I have seen on rifle is stamped Long Branch.



Broad arrow/LB stamp on wrist of EAL-style butt with Jostam pad, forend also EAL style, none of the 'snug' marks usual on old rifles like this that have been pulled apart 87 times.



Full rifle shows EAL style 200-400 sight inset, front sight as per EAL specs, a bit buggered. Barrel pristine.



So what do we have here? If it's a Bitsa rifle, then it's a very good bitsa rifle. The serial number doesn't add up, and it looks like they spot annealed it so it would take a stamp, and it has no trace of serial number anywhere else on the action. Barrel is Longbranch. It has every styling of the EAL rifle, front to back, except the charger bridge is intact. Further, it has the Longbranch stamp on EAL wood. And it's marked -02.
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