Some advise please

[CODFan]

Looking for some input on the following 2 items:

1. 1942 Lee Enfield Long Branch No4 Mk1* - 2 groove all matching - but has been tapped for a Parker Hale mount

Is the recommendation to fill the holes or should a PH site be found and attached?

2. 1950 Lee Enfield Long Branch No4 Mk1* - 6 groove with Mk3 sight - how many of these were produced? I understand about 5,000?

Thanks in advance for helping out a new guy.

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[Peter Laidler]

Q1: Where has it been drilled and tapped?

[CODFan]

Q1: Where has it been drilled and tapped?

Tapped on top rear of the action.

[Peter Laidler]

I know others more experienced that me will disagree with me but just from an engineering point of view and some simple school-boy physics that I won't go into again, a mount that is screwed into the breeching up ring is about as good as a chocolate kettle. So first bit of advice is to not put a mount back onto it

The only thing you can do - in my limited experience - is to unbreech, countersink the holes and mig or tig weld up. Then clean up/re-cut the breech thread, breech up clean the outside and have the whole thing bead blasted and phosphated. A clever welder might try to weld up the holes with the barel in situ but if he ain't clever on the day, the barrel is there for good!

[smellie]

Can't help you as regards the number produced, friend, but I do know that those 1950 6-groove barrels were infernally hard to keep up with on the 600-yard range.

[CODFan]

Well with my shooting ability I need all the help I can get

I hope to have this in my hands sometime this week.

Since I live 2 minutes from the old Long Branch arsenal grounds I hope to find way to take a picture from its place of birth.

From there it will be a gift to my father who used the Lee-Enfield in the military.

[CODFan]

I don't think I will ever lose the grin that I have on my face right now!

Serial # 93L90xx - 1950 Lee Enfield Long Branch No4 Mk1* - 6 groove with Mk3 sight