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I have a few forestocks that I suspect may be Canadian, but markings are either gone or way too faint to ID them....Is there any other way to tell if they are indeed British, Austrailian, or Canadian?....i.e the way the wood was machined, telltale profiles, proof marks on the metal nose, etc...
none have the Ishy screw, so that rules that out, I guess...
Any help with this would be appreciated..
regards
218bee
There might be a few clues, but be aware that a lot of Long Branch wood originated from Savage or has Savage caps fitted.
If you can distinguish the wood type, then birch or maple are an indication that the forend is Savage or Long Branch. British tend to be walnut and beech.
Most Savage forends had the lightening cuts made with a circular saw, unlike the routed grooves on British and Canadian rifles.
The metal cap may have a Canadian "CCM" stamped as the makers code. However quite a few Long Branch forends have the "square S" Savage versions fitted.
Post a few close ups of the forends, and we may be able to indicate the manufacture.
Another way for the later ones is the lack of recess/cut-out for the bolt head catch. If one had been cut later in its life, you can usually see the chisel marks where it's been modified. You certainly could on my feeble attempts! I seem to remember that Canadian fore-ends were very full at the rear around the tie plate.
We always identified the Savage/US fore-ends by the horizontal milling (or slitting saw) method of recessing them out. Does anyone know if this was always the Sav/US style? If not, when was it introduced?
I had some new condition, late production Savage forends a few years ago that were never fitted. They all lacked the lower Trials type cut out on the right side and the internal lightening cuts were done with the slitting saw just like the early ones.