RCAF No.4's

LeeEnfieldNo.4_mk1

LeeEnfieldNo.4_mk1

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Am interested in picking up an RCAF marked Longbranch eventually. What are the markings to look for? As fr as I know its just a "RCAF" stamp on the butt, is their anyway to tell if its a legit RCAF no.4 and not just a swapped out butt?

Thanks
 
There is no way to tell, and I hate to even mention it, but I knew a chap in Edmonton who used to pick up No.4's at the Army and Navy on 97 st. and stamp the stocks RCAF. He had scrounged up the RCAF die stamps. I watched him do it during the early 60's when the rifles were $9.99 at the "A & N".
A well known and respected collector but he moved quite a few for an extra few dollars because of the stamp.
There you have the whole dirty truth.
No, NOT me, but many in Edmonton will know the name so lets leave him rest in peace.
 
LeeEnfieldNo.4_mk1 said:
Am interested in picking up an RCAF marked Longbranch eventually. What are the markings to look for? As fr as I know its just a "RCAF" stamp on the butt, is their anyway to tell if its a legit RCAF no.4 and not just a swapped out butt?

Thanks
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According to Skennerton, on page 496 of the 1993 edition of the LE Story, the picture shows the letters RCAF stamped on the left side of the receiver, right up next to the breech.
 
ive seen them stamped on the receiver like in the book ..as mentioned above unless i got the govt tag that sometimes follewed the rifle i wouldnt buy the rifle with just the stamp on the butt...might be legit but prettty easy to replace the butt with the stamped one or as mentioned there are stamps out there
 
Reason would tell you it would be stamped on the rifle in other places [Like other NO 4s of different units or with different ownership markings] i would look real close at it before laying down your money........
 
I used to be an armament officer in the RCAF. We had #4s as part of our base defense equipment (as well as Stens and Stirlings) I do not recall seeing RCAF on the #4s or the C#7s.

They may have been stamped. That is a small detail to remember, but I sometimes had a #4 signed out for months at a time as a target rifle, and i think i would have noticed.

I am not saying no RCAF #4 was stamped, but I am pretty sure that not all of them were. Never seen it on an EAL, either, and we had some of them, too.
 
Serial number range! Two hundred thousand for the Army, another hundred thousand spares in case the ships sink. A couple train loads for the Air Force. Sniper rifles on contract to the British.
 
Interesting. Thanks Warren. I have seen a few Long Branches with the RCAF on the butt but nothing on the steel.

wheaty said:
There is no way to tell, and I hate to even mention it, but I knew a chap in Edmonton who used to pick up No.4's at the Army and Navy on 97 st. and stamp the stocks RCAF. He had scrounged up the RCAF die stamps. I watched him do it during the early 60's when the rifles were $9.99 at the "A & N".
A well known and respected collector but he moved quite a few for an extra few dollars because of the stamp.
There you have the whole dirty truth.
No, NOT me, but many in Edmonton will know the name so lets leave him rest in peace.
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There are SN number ranges for the NO4Ts and the L42s there is a gent over in the UK looking after that he was in on the build of the L42s and has all that info from when he worked there,he has a book out on the NO4T rifles.


maple_leaf_eh said:
Serial number range! Two hundred thousand for the Army, another hundred thousand spares in case the ships sink. A couple train loads for the Air Force. Sniper rifles on contract to the British.
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