Thanks Santa!!! Hohoho!!!

[Cantom]

Hmmmmm............guess who has an unissued mint Longbranch mag, just sitting in my parts bin???

Well...who could it be...could it be...Bramel??

I also have a 1942 sans mag on the way to me...it's a hurting unit but I have plans for it...I could use that mag. I have a most excellent No 4 Mk 2 mag or the No 1 Mk III mag if you wanted to swap...

[Cantom]

Well, I do like my non-refurb 1944

Oh yeah? Did I mention it's unissued?

Quite different eh? Yours has walnut furniture and is that the stamped MkIII rear sight? Looks pretty good.
My s/n is 76L9XXX .

[tiriaq]

Odd how many LB mags are salted away until the need arises. By all means, replace the magazine, and keep the SMLE mag.; you'll need it for a rifle, or trade, sooner or later. The wood is likely birch. LB primarily used walnut and yellow birch, experimented with maple. The Brits used a lot of beech. Beech has charcteristic "eyes" in the grain. Nice, unmessed with rifle.

[Cantom]

Odd how many LB mags are salted away until the need arises. By all means, replace the magazine, and keep the SMLE mag.; you'll need it for a rifle, or trade, sooner or later. The wood is likely birch. LB primarily used walnut and yellow birch, experimented with maple. The Brits used a lot of beech. Beech has charcteristic "eyes" in the grain. Nice, unmessed with rifle.

What do you think about a LB rifle that is unnumbered? As in nothing on the receiver or bolt...back door gun?
Worth less, worth more? Presumably one of those CFC black stickers?

[tiriaq]

I've seen a few lunchbox Inglis Brownings over the years, never a LB. I would suspect that it would be assembled from parts, but who knows where or when?

[Claven2]

Quite different eh? Yours has walnut furniture and is that the stamped MkIII rear sight? Looks pretty good.
My s/n is 76L9XXX .

Yes, original walnut. And yes, it's the stamped MkIII site, not the later CMkIII.

[Claven2]

Or scrubbed and refinished... that can happen too.

[Warren]

The maple stocks are so heavy, you will know when you find one, even if you cannot ID the wood. You can find it just by picking up No.4's and comparing the weight. I believe the last time I weighed them for someone it was over a half a pound difference. The laminates are close to a walnut stock in weight.

[Claven2]

The laminates are nifty. You encounter two types typically. The Longbranch experimental stocks which look like a K98k stock, and the DCRA contract stocks which were privately contracted post-war. These are different with wider laminate strips.

I've only seen one of the LB laminate stock sets first hand, maybe two of the DCRA sets. A rare find either way.

[rogerdodger]

Resistance is futile I must post! Here's my '44 LB. Not sure what the wood is. Kinda looks like maple but I'm no wood expert. All LB marked except for the trigger guard which is Savage. The rear sight is the Mk III. When I first got the rifle it had a PH5C MP marked sight on it which wasn't all there. I was told it belonged to retired LEO. The shape it's in leads me to believe it was unissued or at least not issued to a military unit. Here's some pics. Thanks Dave er... I mean rogerdodger