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No.4 Long Branch: Connecting the dots help
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07-02-2011 10:51 AM
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If the rifle had been in New Zealand service, wouldn't it have had NZ identification marks and serial numbers marked on the receiver/buttsocket, bolt handle, magazine, etc? Are there any manufacturer's marks on the underside of the buttstock near where it attaches to the rifle? As the rifle is that accurate, I wouldn't strip it down for the world.
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spinecracker,
NZ with broad arrow only on the butt. Nothing NZ on the metal. My estimation is its likely a Weedon Arsenal refinished rifle in which they replaced the wood and on top of that pile of used wood stocks in the serviceable used parts bin was the NZ marked butt stock.
Accurate? Well yes it is and so much so that I have decided not to remove the cosmolene off the No.4Mk2 ROF mummy wrapped weapon to shoot. That post war 1955 dated No.4 was in the cue to hit the range and get its barrel shot out but that's postponed by this Long Branch 43.
Suncorite... did they do that on refinishing rifles post war ?
Last edited by milprileb; 07-02-2011 at 03:47 PM.
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