Is a 1941 longbranch with a 1942 barrel still considered a 1941 longbranch or is then an early 1942 barrel
Should be an easy question right . My feelings are that if you have a 1941 with a 42 barrel then its an early 42 and can no longer be considered a 1941 it all comes down to price in the end a 41 rifle with a 41 5 groove barrel is the prize and should be very rare and therefore very expensive as most of you guys know they were hastely built and sent to England and barrel production fell way behind reciever production in fact the early rifles were almost tooling set up rifles that still required lots of hand fitting and when the rifles were returned for repair most were pulled from service as the parts sometimes were not interchangeable ....this is one of the reasons that 1941 rifles with 1941 barrels are very very rare ...now lets move on to early 1942 ....you have most of the growing pains of a start up armory figured out and barrel production has increased and now you can assemble the 1941 recievers with a barrel ...a 1942 barrel in my humble opionion this makes it an early 1942 and no longer the coveted 1941 ..am i wrong in this thinking ...they used up the early receivers with the new type barrel 2 groove as they wete not worried about collectors 75 years down the road pondering the barrel question they were pounding out rifles because we were at war ....so thoughts guys am i wrong i know if im going to spend a ton of money for a 41 it better have a 41 barrel ...to me thats simple but ive argued this with others before ...thx
Should be an easy question right . My feelings are that if you have a 1941 with a 42 barrel then its an early 42 and can no longer be considered a 1941 it all comes down to price in the end a 41 rifle with a 41 5 groove barrel is the prize and should be very rare and therefore very expensive as most of you guys know they were hastely built and sent to England and barrel production fell way behind reciever production in fact the early rifles were almost tooling set up rifles that still required lots of hand fitting and when the rifles were returned for repair most were pulled from service as the parts sometimes were not interchangeable ....this is one of the reasons that 1941 rifles with 1941 barrels are very very rare ...now lets move on to early 1942 ....you have most of the growing pains of a start up armory figured out and barrel production has increased and now you can assemble the 1941 recievers with a barrel ...a 1942 barrel in my humble opionion this makes it an early 1942 and no longer the coveted 1941 ..am i wrong in this thinking ...they used up the early receivers with the new type barrel 2 groove as they wete not worried about collectors 75 years down the road pondering the barrel question they were pounding out rifles because we were at war ....so thoughts guys am i wrong i know if im going to spend a ton of money for a 41 it better have a 41 barrel ...to me thats simple but ive argued this with others before ...thx
