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No4 Mk1* Longbranch 1942
SN - 2L7396 CAI import, mismatched bolt, CMk 3 rear sight
Don't know squat about these rifles to tell what is original or not.
It's seen better days. Cost me a 100 clams.
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02-13-2010 03:58 PM
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Here is mine. No 4 MK1* Longbranch 1944 S/N -81L3666,CAI import,non-grooved handguard,brass-buttplate W/ broad arrow mark.Ladder sight,mag has matching number,Forestock does not,original number was struck and renumbered to match. It has ishy screw and on inside of butt plate door there is a stamped (P) and 55. Do you think it did service in Pakistan?
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1943, CAI import marked, sn 37L4015, forestock, receiver, bolt, magazine numbers match. Grooved upper handguard, ishy screw. MK 1 rear sight
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Here is mine 1942 Long Branch No4 Mk1* 2 groove 10L4995 and 44941 also. Non-import marked and, as new everything matches. It originally had the flip type rear sight, I installed a ladder type as I shoot this rifle in Vintage Rifle competitions.
Thanks, Andy
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I have 3 No4 mk1* all 3 are 1942 Longbranch
1. Mint cond possible unfired. Unusal orange coloured wood(possibly birch stock???), all matching with steel but plate. With Mk111 rear sight c broad arrow marked. 2 groove barrel. ser# 11L3311. All matching
2. Exe cond. walnut stock, all mathing New Zealand issue with matching spike bayonet ser# 21L3591 Grooved top wood and 2 groove barrel.
3. Very good cond walnut stock all matching with 5 groove barrel. 300/600 flip rear sight. Ser # 1L9659
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Out of sequence number.
I have a 1941 Long Branch Mk I with the serial number 5L3605.
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Not mine, but significant. No.4 MkI (No star) 1L1597 1941 date.
PM sent, plus camera request made. Maybe!
Last edited by jmoore; 03-12-2010 at 11:42 AM.
Reason: Owner request
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JMOORE, any chance of pictures of this beast?
Thanks,
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Here is what I have so far...
1941 - 0L7277
1943 - 41L8767
1944 - 72L7459
1949 - 91L1151 (originally the last number was stamped as a 0 but crossed out and the 1 was added)
1950 - 93L4283
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Picked this one up at the weekend -
Long Branch No.4 Mk.1 1941- serial number 1L2702
Rifle has all original components (1 or 2 missing, but relatively easy to replace), but the wood has been abused, and the rear micrometer sight (Long Branch-stamped) has had a vee cut in the 300 yard aperture.
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