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Originally Posted by
Terry Hawker
Gents,
Now I know I'm getting old, half deaf and my eyes dim, but I can't be the only one who has noticed that the photo of the muzzle does not show
Canada
's C broad arrow property mark stamped in front of the 7.62, but a very obvious C A.
I think you may be right. It does look more like C A then the C and broad arrow. But I also do know that a few of my long branches have bad stamping but I do know they are canadian. What would be the difference if it had the C A?
Phil
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03-24-2023 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by
Terry Hawker
a very obvious C A.
Yes that's right. Canadian Arsenals markings. That's the right era, C broad arrow was earlier.
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Originally Posted by
Terry Hawker
Gents,
Now I know I'm getting old, half deaf and my eyes dim, but I can't be the only one who has noticed that the photo of the muzzle does not show
Canada's C broad arrow property mark stamped in front of the 7.62, but a very obvious C A.
The C ^ (C-Broad Arrow) was discontinued as an official marking in 1947.
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Just to add the the confusion the stamping under the bolt handle appears to me as M47/C which if I recall is for BSA Shirely and the sniper T's.
I could be incorrect but thats what my No.4 "T" has stamped on it
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Originally Posted by
CINDERS
under the bolt handle appears to me as M47/C which if I recall is for BSA Shirely
Well I don't think the rifle is a Long Branch any way so that could match.
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awesome! thank you all for the help! I got it on a whim but no regrets!
Phil
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"Canadian Arsenals" and the standard marking for those barrels. The stylized maple leaf mark is usually near the Nock's Form, and on the bolt and receiver ring adjacent to the conversion number.
The full round knob suggests the bolt was replaced during FTR, but the problem is the serial number on the bolt should be electric-pencilled not stamped for a 1950s FTR or new-build rifle.
The markings on the butt socket, if any, were apparently ground off before whoever stamped in the "7.62"; it was done by some civilian owner.
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Bolt and receiver markings match anyway. English gun changed over...
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The rifle started life as a BSA Shirley or Faz Mk1. If the OP takes the barrelled action out of the woodwork & has a look at the draws we can tell tell which of the two. If they are asymmetrical in shape then it's a Faz; it they are symmetrical it's a BSA Shirley. There's an outside chance of an early Savage or perhaps a POF (though I must admit I don't know if POF made Mk1 rifles or Mk2's or both). Much more likely BSA or Faz. The FTR marks are IMHO also likely to be BSA. How & when it got to Canada I've no idea.......
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though I must admit I don't know if
POF made Mk1 rifles or Mk2's or both)
As I understand it PoF manufactured MK1s on the BSA Machinery, shipped to them in 1955, and then later, when the Faz machinery was shipped to them they started Mk2 production
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