Hi, when my dad was 17, my grandfather got him a surplus Longbranch No.4 Mk1*. It was purchased from the Canadian Forces Store on the airbase where my grandad worked. It was still wrapped in the wax paper cocoon, but it was already sporterized (stock cut down, nothing else). My question is, did LB ever sporter surplus enfields for commercial sale after the war was over?
Long Branch Factory Sporters?
- Thread starter LeeEnfieldNo.4_mk1
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- Manitoulin Island
Pictures would help. "this thread is worthless without pictures".
Boy, I'd sure love to see a scan of that picture...that would be highly interesting.
- Location
- Pile of Bones, SK
Pic from Green- Very interesting, 1967 eh? It's an EAL military! Note it's listed as CAL product, no mention of Essential Agencies Limited or St. Francis and sons.
It's called Sporter .303 in the list and has the 5 round mag characteristic of the military version. How I wish there were a few more pics of it...
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- Pile of Bones, SK
Neat.
They weren't kidding with that name...it seems they had their fingers into every weapon we had...
- Location
- Pile of Bones, SK
Really makes one wonder how many legit sporters are out there without the EAL name.
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- Pile of Bones, SK
Lee Enfield
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Republic of Alberta
Ahhh ha!!
That would probably be clandestine BREN production at the behest of the CIA to go with the false dated '42-45, uncoded 9MM CDN MkI Ball and 8x57MM produced by Dominion in the 1950s-1960s.
http://cartridgecollectors.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19&highlight=canada
