Need help with a 1944 LB buttstock markings.

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Hi guys, I suspect the 259 is a "rack number" but does anyone here know what is "STOWE" ?
This is on a 1944 Long Branch equipped with a Savage buttstock.


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Sasquatch807 said:
Hi guys, I suspect the 259 is a "rack number" but does anyone here know what is "STOWE" ?
This is on a 1944 Long Branch equipped with a Savage buttstock.


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Interesting...Unless anyone comes up with a definite on this you might want to check out Stowe school in the UK...A very 'well to do' school which did have its own .22 and full bore shooting teams....
 
If you're right about that tommy that rifle would be a real sweet find if the bore is nice. Not to mention the nostalgia. I find it interesting how many of the nicer pieces out there came out of schools and shooting orgs.
 
If I'm not mistaken, the RSG used to be HQ'd at Stowe (Buckinghamshire) in the 1950's. RSG (Return Stores Garrison) is where obsolete, damaged and out of date equipment went when it left active service. In order for a unit to get credit or replacement, a "board of survey" was done to determine the condition and amount of equipment in technical stores, then the written off gear was shipped to RSG, replacement equipment could then be ordered.
 
Possibly the name of a former individual owner.
If it was owned by a rifle team in the UK it should have commercial proof marks on the body and barrel.
 
I can't imagine a troopie in the British Army taking his rifle issued to him, and marking it like this,..im certain he would have been in serious crap with his Sargent-Major, for defacing government property,and placed on a charge, and marched up before the company CO,.. my dad joined the British Army, 6 months short of his 19th birthday, and served with the Welsh Guards from 1939-1946, he told me a few stories of the harsh discipline the Guards were famous for,.especially in basic training at the Guards Depot,..
 
I have seen similar stamps on other rifles. I would say that this belonged to the Stowe school in Buckinghamshire. Many of the English boarding schools had shooting programs.
 
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