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Hi

I have a P14 sitting here with a problem. It needs a couple of parts for the rear sight. I also have a Longbranch Mk4 no2 that also oddly enough has a rear sight problem. I guess I just have a thing for rear sights ...

Where can I get some parts?

Equally important can I get them into the US without winding up in jail for 200 years .....

Bob
 
Bob try e-pay,Springfield sporter?,Numrich.All kindsa places on your side of the line.Alot more then up here in the GWN.
 
No such thing as Longbranch Mk4 no2. You might have a No.4 MKI or MKI* or maybe even No.4 MK I/2. Anyway, any of the standard N0.4 sights will work on your rifle.


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JP said:
No such thing as Longbranch Mk4 no2. You might have a No.4 MKI or MKI* or maybe even No.4 MK I/2. Anyway, any of the standard N0.4 sights will work on your rifle.


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Hi

Good point - got it confused with my mummy wrap ...

So all of the Mk 4 sights interchange? That's going to make things easier to find.

Thanks!

Bob
 
".....or even more likely than a Long Branch no4mk1/2 would be a no4mk1/3."

- Well I was trying to pinpoint where the No.2 was coming from.

On a Long Branch, the most common sight would be a MKII or a CMKIII.
On the photo, starting from the left, the second and fourth one.
 
Hi

I went down and grabbed the rifle. It's marked No. 4 Mk 1* Longbranch 1944. My guess is that it spent a portion of it's life in India or Pakistan.

What I have on the rifle is a ladder sight, so the second one from the left in the picture is out. The sight on the far left appears to be the one I have.

It apparently froze up solid at some point and then was forced. Even after a good soak and clean it no longer goes up and down on the track like it should.

Bob
 
Rear sight is a milled micrometer British sight manufactured by "F" Fazakerley.
Looks like the rifle was refurbished by India in "47"....furniture (stock) in very good shape.
 
That has the mk1 sight on it. If you are handy with the tools, punch the little retaining pin on the left side of the sight retaining pin upwards, then remove the pin and remove the sight. You can then punch the little pin out of the top of the sight (just below and to the left of the elevation knob). That should allow the ladder to slide upwards. If it slides, then it is the elevation screw that is either siezed or stripped. If it does not go up, then it is the block that is seized. A little heat followed by oil soaking should free it up. If the elevation screw is stripped or the threads galled, then that is another story.

The sight is not the original to that rifle. The marking on it (F) indicates that the sight is Brit made. Judging by the remnants of the electro etching, the rifle either went through a Factory Thru Repair (FTR) and may have even been upgraded to no4mk1/3. If you pull off the trigger guard (2 screws) you can tell by whether the trigger stays with the guard (mk1*) or with the receiver (mk1/3).

A replacement mk1 sight will usually run you from $15 to $30, although on fleabay a LB marked mk1 sight sold for about $125 a while back.
 
Hi

Thanks for the info. The rifle is certainly not all original. I don't think that there are two numbers anywhere on it that match in any way. It's certainly been to India and / or Pakistan and stayed there for a long while.

I have had the sight apart and it appears that the threads in the ladder are stripped. I can move things by hand, but not by the magic screw.

The trigger stays with the guard on this rifle, so I guess that makes at least part of it a Mk 1*


Thanks!

Bob
 
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