Different stock lengths of Long Branch No.4 Mk.1's

[MapleSugar]

Hello all!

I'm just curious if anyone knows the proper buttstock lengths and markings of Long Branch No.4 Mk.1's.

I have heard there is a Long, Standard, and Bantam length, and a friend told me today he saw one that was an extra long.

I have a walnut LB buttstock with an S under the rear sling base, it has the C broad arrow marking (the crap on it is cosmoline.)

Can anyone enlighten me with the proper markings and measurements please?

Thanks!

 

[#4mk1(T)]

The proper markings and what they mean are:
B = Bantam and is 1 inch shorter.
S = Short and is ½ inch shorter.
N = Normal and is the zero point.
L = Long and is ½ inch longer.
If memory serves a Normal buttstock is about 12 ½ inches when measured from the butt socket to the butt plate when mounted on a rifle
I’ve never seen a buttstock marked as an extra long.

 

[MapleSugar]

Thanks, #4mk1(T)!

I appreciate your help. I can assume then that my buttstock is a short.

Funny, I'm 6'3" and 235 lbs. and it fits me fine!

I wonder how a long would feel?

 

[Lee Enfield]

The length marking is on the top of the staock above the buttplate.

 

[Rapt]

Funny, most stocks out there (at least that I've seen) are shorts.

I'm 5'7" and I find the short, too short to shoot comfortably.

 

[woodchopper]

stamp that your looking at under the swivel is not where they marked the but lenght.

The S L or B was stamped on top of the butstock just ahead of the but plate.

I have lots of normal lenght, and one Long and one bantum.

 

[MapleSugar]

Thanks Woodchopper!

I stand corrected......I suppose the one I have is a normal length then.

I wonder what the S marking on mine is supposed to mean then?

 

[John Sukey]

Thanks Woodchopper!

I stand corrected......I suppose the one I have is a normal length then.

I wonder what the S marking on mine is supposed to mean then?

How about Savage. the excess from U.S. production was sent North.

 

[woodchopper]

How about Savage. the excess from U.S. production was sent North.

But its walnut, so not a lot of Savage walnut stocks, lots of beech were produced and some eventually sent to the Longbranch plant. That and the S is way too rounded for a Savage S marking.

I suspect that is a subcontractor of factory mark of some sort.