First official recorded use of Canadian Long Branch made No.4 rifles in WW II

[Warren]

Now we know when Canadian LB rifles went into WW II service in test trials.
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[Lee Enfield]

Returned with rusty bores...obviously a manufacturing issue...

[browningautorifle]

If someone can, or is willing to tart up the quality of this document,

If you save it to your desktop and the open with paint...it's the size of the morning news paper. Or, just click on the little square with the arrow when you open it. It goes huge...

[Surpmil]

So they got them in March 1942. The rusty bores bit is interesting since the maintenance and ammo was presumably the same as that used in the SMLEs then on issue. Were they left to sit somewhere for a while before being returned for examination?

Thanks for posting that Warren; what's next??

[browningautorifle]

The rusty bores

I know a man that was issued LB his beginning career (1954, surpmil might know him too) and he told me there were two types...one with a polished bore and one without. You wanted the non polished so you didn't have to clean so hard. I'd guess that these might be the type to rust quicker, corrosive salts...inattentive post firing even if just factory patterning. Then when they packed them they'd rust. ?? All guessing... By the way, he told me they were chrome bores but I'm not sure about that...