What kind of Mess?

[Trung Si]

Is This, All of my Rifles are Shooters and this one, (Long Branch No 4 Mk1*) shoots very well, but someone sure Bubba'd this one and I can't understand why, I have had it for more than 20 years, but just now got to looking.

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[lngstrt]

Looks like somebody didn't want somebody else to see what was there. Like tattooing over an ex girlfriend's name!

[Beerhunter]

Looks like somebody didn't want somebody else to see what was there. Like tattooing over an ex girlfriend's name!

The letters "D" and "P" for example.

[jmoore]

Looks like it could have been a Thai crest that got mangled.

[butlersrangers]

Is that a 'U.S. Ordinance Bomb' marking on the bolt-head?

[Trung Si]

Is that a 'U.S. Ordinance Bomb' marking on the bolt-head?

Yes it is!
I suspect that that Rifle has a Savage Bolt!

[Mag Fed]

A late war ('44) Savage bolt by the s/n and an early war cocking piece.
Wonder if this rifle was a re-capture, perhaps from the Germans.....? Any other markings on the butt ?
Cheers.

[Trung Si]

A late war ('44) Savage bolt by the s/n and an early war cocking piece.
Wonder if this rifle was a re-capture, perhaps from the Germans.....? Any other markings on the butt ?
Cheers.

No, no markings on the Butt or the Stock or underneath the Butt Plate, there is an R on the Flat of the Barrel and a 4 0 slightly to the side of that, I think that this is a Parts Gun put together at Federal Ordinance of S. El Monte Cal., who was the Importer.

[Robert303]

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[Peter Laidler]

Ex Indian STATE forces. AL is Alahambra(?) state as I recall from the Indian Army Liaison Officer at work a couple of years ago. That's why nothing matches!