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    Help with identification Lonbranch Mod /3

    I posted this on the Curio and Relics forum before I realized this forum would be a better place

    I am looking at a Longbranch Enfield that the seller says was aresenal redone to the /3 (F) FTR configuration and has the proper electro pen marks on it. The question I have is the stock has been modified from the full stock to one that ends 9 inches from the muzzle. (the butt pad is a slip on)
    If this correct?

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    Ben: This has been sporterized. Longbranch experimented with shortened, lightened No.4's but they never went into production. When I was a kid here in Alberta my local Co-op grocery store sold these through the "CIL" catalogue, I believe. There were some "factory" sporters put out by "Essential Agencies Limited" but while these had a shortened forend, they also had the charger bridge removed.

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    It will have been modified to Mk.1/3 when being FTR'd at Fazackerly. They will NOT have "sporterised" it. That has been after it left UKicon service.

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    It looks as if it can be easily restored, what going on with the butt, has it a slip on cover, is the original butt plate still present.
    Regards Simon

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    Quote Originally Posted by Simon P View Post
    It looks as if it can be easily restored, what going on with the butt, has it a slip on cover, is the original butt plate still present.
    Won't know until the auction preview

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