Do you have a 1950 Long Branch?

[tiriaq]

94L5; receiver blued; 50; barrel Parked; bolt blued; striker blued. Rifle was used for DCRA target shooting; previously owned by 2 prominent DCRA members.

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[Lee Enfield]

94L5; receiver blued; 50; barrel Parked; bolt blued; striker blued. Rifle was used for DCRA target shooting; previously owned by 2 prominent DCRA members.

Tiriaq,
Does the receiver have a greenish tinge? If so I would suggest that it was actually parkerized.

However, bluing would fit right in with my understanding that the componants were tossed in a bin, and as they got low, the bottom ones were accessed. Then it was refilled with fresh receivers.

Supposedly the final operation of the finished gun was the serial numbering process.

This is the reason that Winchester lever actions often show patent markings out of sequence between barrel, receiver & serial numbers.