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Looks like the site lost all my pics with that update, last month.

I've been searching to support the theories presented here, and so far have nothing. The only reason I'm writing today is to...

Canada sold No 4's to India, and Pakistan, late 1948. I know Pakistan ordered 100,000, but don't know about India's numbers.

Ref:...

It's not that I don't appreciate help, but I don't appreciate speculation presented as fact because of what comes down to "I said so".

When I ask for references and evidence, only to be provided...

Actually, I think it suggests validation of my thought.

With no evidence to support, other than logic, I guarantee you that LB, CDN issue rifles that were damaged during the war were not sent...

I never intended for this to begin how it did. Started off great. A few pics, a nice exchange about being sure I was handling it well. Then it went off the rails with this guy at post #16. Sorry for...

WW2 surplus of Canadian Enfields were stored by the War Assets Crop until late Sep 1947 when they were sent for destruction.Quite specifically because of not having buyers (guess the Brits and Yanks...

Greece, maybe, sure and why not, but there is nothing that suggests that its true. Other reading I've done talk about the Greek 4's coming through Belgium (all of them somehow marked) and being...

I'll definitely be getting more familiar with docs, now that I have hands on a true No.4.

I've seen a references about other LBs making it back, but all of them had some sort of non-factory marks....

The only issue I had was that everything was so tightly put together. Had no issues with the forend, but took extra care with the barrel bands.
It was very easy, but I do have a copy of the...

Note post #1, pic #4; the one with a Canadian Arsenals Ltd. stamp.
I wonder if this is one of the 70,000 from a cancelled order, ref: https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=36140

Canadian...

Yea, we exported a bunch but the War Assets Corp. destroyed WW2 surplus.

At the time of destruction, LB was still making No 4's mainly for export, as I understand it. Pakistan, India, NZ for sure...

Just tore down my "new" Long Branch MK1*.

Year: 1943
SN: 41L2850
Barrel: 2 Groove
Rear sight: CMK 3
All LB + C broad arrow marked + DCP (nothing foreign)
Except for a vertical line, matching...

Forgot to add this pic: Any ideas what's the very centered G2 is all about? There's also a G on the barrel.

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Got my 43 over the weekend and I never expected to find one looking so flawless, but with two unanticipated markings. Also, I've never disassembled a rifle that was so damn snug before. I'm not dumb...

@Brian Dick: You're probably correct about the CANADA being an import stamp, but I guess as time goes by, less and less people will know because there's only verbal evidence. And no, lol, I still...

Definitely a lot of confusion here. Doesn’t matter much. Due to the receiver etched rack number, I moved on from the otherwise beautiful one I’d scoped (almost bought it anyway and regret skipping...

@Roger: Ive seen a variety of ENGLAND marked on surplus rifles, but they were always on the metal, not wood. I can’t speak to the second example and, pending legitimate documentation, I don’t know...

I disagree. There’s many examples of the England export mark and, the UK isn’t a country so I don’t think it would be stamped as such. I’ve spent over an hour looking for a single example of a UK...

I have read quite a bit on Long Branch. I began about 10 years ago, when I started researching my EAL. Regardless, I now have a Ranger saying yes, and Ranger saying no. So, if you still won’t provide...

I don’t know where your getting your information from. You complicated it with some grassy knoll Brit thing and a repetitive, yet unsubstantiated insistence of import.

You’d think that if it was...

I learned a little more since my last; specifically about contracting.

Long Branch didn’t produce regular Enfields for the British. They only made the Sten and No4 mk2 sniper for them. I never...

Yeah, that Cowan listing is the sole example I’ve found of CANADA marked on one, but that does not suggest it’s an import mark. Also, that is not the rifle in question.

@Brian Dick, it’s not...

None suggested, but I've also read that import marks were stamped on metal, not wood. I'm also a little curious as to why an importer would stamp it, if there was no requirement to do so until 1968....

Hi; first post and I'm at work so it'll be a quick one.

I'm looking at a 43 Long Branch No4 Mk1* and the picture he sent has "CANADA" stamped on the underside wrist. I can't find any info, or...