NO4 MK1 longbranch 1945 questions

The rifle and scope look like they were near new until the butcher got ahold of them. Crying shame. Nice rescue.
 
Garyg said:
I would like to try making one of those cheek pieces. I have never seen one for sale.
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If you go over to the milsurps site the drawings for the cheekpiece (and just about everything else special for the sniper) are in the knowledge library. Or you can shell out $50 or so and just buy it like TCH says.

twincamharley said:
Ebay or Numrich
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Those are fine for the Brit stocks, but the Canadian stocks are thinner, and the two holes are spaced out slightly different. I also need to find something that will match up with that purplish hue on this buttstock.
 
Here are some shots in the better light of the gunroom. You'll have to excuse all the shadows. I didn't like the poor match of the first stock and then noticed this stock hiding in the wood pile. It had a bit of the purplish tint that the butt and handguards had. Not a perfect match, but about as close as LB would have done. I also came accross a m1907 leather sling dated 1918 in very very nice condition. It was hiding under some other junk slings in another part of the gunroom.

The rifle is sitting on one of the Cdn armourer's tripods. These were used for sighting in, minor work, or even classroom lectures. Below the rifle is the Cdn no15 chest, which are a bit of a rarity in themselves. The last photo is of a mannequin with my other sniper (Brit made C/l\ marked) hanging off his shoulder.







 
By the way. I managed to catch up with the butcher of stencollectors LB. He use to live in Winnipeg and now lives in Fort Mac Alberta. When I asked him what he did with anything he removed from the rifle, he just laughed and said " that stuff went in the garbage long ago". What an AH!!! So much for trying to track down anything original. I tried.
 
Royzo said:
By the way. I managed to catch up with the butcher of stencollectors LB. He use to live in Winnipeg and now lives in Fort Mac Alberta. When I asked him what he did with anything he removed from the rifle, he just laughed and said " that stuff went in the garbage long ago". What an AH!!! So much for trying to track down anything original. I tried.
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Being that stupid is it's own reward...
 
There were a few so called prototype Longbranch Sniper rifles if I remember correctly around 1200 were converted at the Longbranch armoury, if it were all original it would be a very nice rifle
 
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