Long Branch serial number listing

[Baal]

16L6274 - 1943 No4 MkI* / butt plate is painted black (steel?) / non-grooved beech rear hand guard / C broad arrow marked walnut butt stock/ walnut fore-end and front hand guard / TZ 4/47 sight / DCRA conversion to 7.62mm #1390.

45L7433 - 1943 No4 MkI* / non-FTR / bare metal butt plate (alloy?) / non-grooved upper hand guard / C broad arrow & CANADA marked butt stock / Cdn MkIII rear sight / MP marked on left side of action.

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[mauser98nut]

!943 Long Branch, serial no50L0216 ,No4 mk!/3 (F) FTR

[Boom-Boom]

No4 MK1* LB 1944 60L7526.

Excellent condition.

Unfortunately bolt is mismatched ( still a LB number 3L7893.

A rematch somwhere????

BB

[wilsonmaddox]

No4 MK1* LB 1944 62L9145 Butcher job on fore stock to sporterize. No handguards Butt stock may be original. Brass plate with Canadian broad arrow in circle. England import marking. No mil spec magazines. Has 2 reduced capacity (8?) from Santa Fe Magazine, made in Japan. Interesting note, it came with a repack bandoleer with strippers and ammo. Ammo headstamp indicates 1957 Iraq manufacture. Has what looks like a 4 with upside down Q.

[shooter762]

No 4 Mk1 1950 Dated 95L9264 Dark Wood Steel Butt Plate Matching #s except for magazine which is Savage. Some of the wood also is Savage marked. Bore is pristine

[albian]

N° 4 MK1* Long Branch 1945 83L1914

[drifter]

heres my # number 4 mk i long branch 1943...308..25l2162 it has the peep sight .someone had it made into a hunting rifle..i,m looking for a good scope for it

[silverfox]

48L384x 1943, No4Mk1*, Missing rear sight, Un-dated FTR, Steel Buttplate, Un-Grooved, un-serialed Savage stock, Magazine serialed to rifle.

[Mike D]

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.

[Hawgeye]

1943, CAI import marked, sn 37L4015, forestock, receiver, bolt, magazine numbers match. Grooved upper handguard, ishy screw. MK 1 rear sight