A couple of British L1A1 Rifles

[enbloc8]

Surely there will be a heavy L2 barrel somewhere in the US that can be exported here instead of the palava of turning one down from scratch.

Engraving your body to L2A1 spec shouldn't be a problem either

Inch-pattern heavy barrels are probably right behind Longbranch barrels for rarity now, here in the States...many of the guys I know of with L2s or C2s either had them with their parts kits (only L2s there, far as I know), or they were turned down from barrel blanks or metric FALO barrels.

My FN/SLR builder told me that he and the late Pat Jones had been working on a plan to make new "unobtainium" parts (like barrels and bipod barrel blocks) for L2s and C2s. Pat had original parts to either copy or modify, while my builder had the machine shop skills at hand. Sadly, Pat's untimely demise put an end to that, at least for now.

[Eaglelord17]

I've been told that rifles remaining in stock at Longbranch Arsenal/CAL were sold off along with the plant machinery and other assets when the Arsenal was closed in 1976.

I am just going by what I was told by the person doing the chopping. He said they were taking them out of the box still in the grease and chopping them up, whether they were the result of a refurbishment program or NOS I am not sure, but NOS wouldn't surprise me as we were taking NOS Hi-Powers from 1945 out of the grease for Afghanistan.

[enbloc8]

I am just going by what I was told by the person doing the chopping. He said they were taking them out of the box still in the grease and chopping them up, whether they were the result of a refurbishment program or NOS I am not sure, but NOS wouldn't surprise me as we were taking NOS Hi-Powers from 1945 out of the grease for Afghanistan.

Either one wouldn't surprise me...in the 90s I recall hearing of late production M1 Garands that were found still wrapped in grease paper in US Army stock (though those went to a better fate, being auctioned for the CMP instead of chopped).

Likewise, I've been told that there were brand new L1A1s on the rack at Lithgow Arsenal, that were cut into parts kits when Lithgow was bought out lock, stock and barrel in the early 90s.