I have come across a 1942 Long Branch No4 Mk1* with a T marking that I do not know if significant, so, asking for any help in determining what it means
It has a B19 Below The Serial Number and the T below that near the Trigger Guard Screw
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I have come across a 1942 Long Branch No4 Mk1* with a T marking that I do not know if significant, so, asking for any help in determining what it means
It has a B19 Below The Serial Number and the T below that near the Trigger Guard Screw
19L would make it a 1942 rifle and it looks like it went through at least one UK(?) FTR judging by the black paint and replaced trigger guard. The letter T does look like the T of the "TR" stamp, but there's no record of a T being put there for any reason related to sniper converstions, AFAIK.
Long Branch snipers do not have "TR" stamped in the manner of a British converted rifle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Surpmil
I know, but the gentleman asking the question did not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee Enfield
And if you want to know why Tommy57, it's because the "TR" was used to mark rifles found to be exceptionally accurate during test firing after manufacture, whereas the Canadian conversions were done on batches of rifles in the same factory as they were built in, and they were built to the necessary standard from the start. Therefore requiring no such marking to ID them between manufacture and conversion in different factories at some later date, as was the case in the UK.