Long Branch serial number listing

[Caio]

Dear Lance,
Thanks for your feedback.
I’m support your thesis… in fact those are 50’s rifles because has a green finishing. Come’s from Italy Navy surplus… and still has huge amount of stitched cosmoline… Let see how the “boy” shoot… I’ll post some photos too.
Thanks to all.. have a great time

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[berkmberk1]

1943 LB No 4 Mk 1. Sn 36L30xx All matching incl mag. Mk2 rear sight. Steel butt plate. Not marked as having been refurbished. Finish ~97%+. While not mint/unissued, it looks like it wasn't used much.

[303short]

Hi
Do you know anything about a shortened no4 mk1 Canadian style 303 , looks similar to a jungle carbine and has a serial number starting with AU**OL , has all military markings, just trying to confirm if these exsisted or someone has shortened it ?

thanks in advance

[limpetmine]

I know that Long Branch had some experimental shortened rifles. Other than what is in TLES, I don't know.

Hi
Do you know anything about a shortened no4 mk1 Canadian style 303 , looks similar to a jungle carbine and has a serial number starting with AU**OL , has all military markings, just trying to confirm if these exsisted or someone has shortened it ?

thanks in advance

[browningautorifle]

Do you know anything about a shortened no4 mk1 Canadian style 303 , looks similar to a jungle carbine

You'd need to show us, there were a number of them done with a FH like a #5 and they sort of looked like one but the FH was held by a set screw, there were a number done by an enterprise that were "Tanker" #4 rifles that were done because no one wanted to buy a standard rifle as there were so many available... We need to see this one.

[Wombat]

Rifle is a bit of an oddball. Receiver, 1943 BSA (B). Bolt, Longbranch numbered to receiver. Stock, BSA walnut numbered to rifle. Butt, beech No.IV Mk. II with name "L.F. Richmond" marked twice. Rear sight, BSA Mk.I. Barrel, Fazackerly 1955 five groove. Unusual rifle serial # W0001 marked on stock, receiver & new bolt. Rifle has the "C" inside a circle denoting piece is set up as a target rifle. This mark appears on converted 7.62 caliber No.IV rifles, but W0001 is a .303. The circle "C" mark, which is stamped on stock forend and receiver butt socket has been very neatly X'd over. Forend has been shimmed under barrel breech. Rifle is very accurate.

I bought this rifle for $100.00. Dealer thought it was simply a a "parts rifle". Hope I have not gone too far outside your thread subject.

[limpetmine]

Pictures Pictures Pictures!!!
Sounds interesting.

Rifle is a bit of an oddball. Receiver, 1943 BSA (B). Bolt, Longbranch numbered to receiver. Stock, BSA walnut numbered to rifle. Butt, beech No.IV Mk. II with name "L.F. Richmond" marked twice. Rear sight, BSA Mk.I. Barrel, Fazackerly 1955 five groove. Unusual rifle serial # W0001 marked on stock, receiver & new bolt. Rifle has the "C" inside a circle denoting piece is set up as a target rifle. This mark appears on converted 7.62 caliber No.IV rifles, but W0001 is a .303. The circle "C" mark, which is stamped on stock forend and receiver butt socket has been very neatly X'd over. Forend has been shimmed under barrel breech. Rifle is very accurate.

I bought this rifle for $100.00. Dealer thought it was simply a a "parts rifle". Hope I have not gone too far outside your thread subject.

[Gav]

Is there a serial number range on early rifles where mk1 sights and hinged bands start to disappear and when production picked up in 1942?

Is there any trend detected for the smooth and grooved rear hand guards and production dates/ serial numbers?

Cheers

Have just found the above information on early LB rifles in the Knowledge Library, pays to dig around!

[StratA]

New member here; hope I'm posting correctly.

Long Branch
C No.4mk1*
1949 (receiver and barrel).

91L2194
All matching including magazine but not bayonet (no serial).
Bluing near perfect; upper hand guard was replaced at some point while on sevice. CNo3 rear sight.

It was my first lee enfield. Bought it circa early 1993 from al simmon's shop in hamilton ontario. I think it was one of the last tranches of surplus whole rifles sold by crown assets before the government of the day changed policy. Packed with cosmoline when I bought it (as were all the others thay had in the shop at the time).

[Boat]

1944, No4Mk1*, 72L7353, no signs of FTR, mkIII rear sight, steel buttplate, ungrooved hand guard, walnut wood, all parts that are marked are LB marked, no serial on stock, L marked butt stock, later style safety and trigger guard, 44 marked 5 groove barrel, unmarked/unserialized magazine, however it's bedded and has a target sling swivel on the trigger guard.