Unmolested 1950 Long Branch No.4

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LawrenceN

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Greetings all. I picked up a gorgeous 1950 Long Branch from a great fellow CGN'er on Sunday, and proceeded to do my thing. Basic disassembly to ensure everything is correctly marked and re-assemble. It's a BEAUTY!!!! Even the mag is serial numbered to the rifle. The bore is coming up nicely but there was some copper and carbon fouling. Some elbow grease, patches, Hoppes #9, and time, and the bore is shining like a mirror. Though the butt stock isn't marked, it conforms to "N" (normal) length specs. In the near future I'll take it all down to bits to clean out some residual cosmoline in the nooks and crannies. Normally, I'd strip down the wood and refinish the stock, but this one has so few dings and compression dents that I'm just going to rub it down with steel wool and varsol to remove old dirt and crud and smooth it out a little and give it a new coat of linseed oil. For now, enjoy a nice piece of Canadian (and Toronto) history. I have a soft spot in my heart for the Long Branch items, being that I don't live a long way away from the arsenal lands.



 
Nice rifle, you should check the bayonet lugs, because some 1950's rifles (mine) have the number 6 stamped on it for 6 groove rifling.
 
"Though the butt stock isn't marked, it conforms to "N" (normal) length specs"

Normals are not marked. Bantam, Short and Long stocks are.
 
Very nice. :cool:

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Sweet!
I had an all matching including mag 1945 Jungle Carbine that was completely bubba'd. It was given to me by a friend. Before it was sportered it was unissued from the looks of it. Still had grease in the crevices! I traded it for a ross
 
collector67 said:
Nice rifle! WipeOut bore cleaner works great for removing copper fouling.
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You must be almost as good looking and as smart as I am.

Below is a No.4 Enfield after one shot of foam bore cleaner, all the copper is gone and the bore only had one pass with a cleaning rod to oil the bore.

Spare the cleaning rod and spoil your bore...............less is more.

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RememberTheSomme said:
A nice Long Branch, congrat's on your purchase.
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Thanks all. It's a pleasure to share the pics of such a beauty with those who have the acumen to appreciate them. I have what would have been a gorgeous '43 Long Branch if some moron hadn't decided to "make 'er into a good huntin' gun" and drilled and tapped the receiver. Someone tried to put it back to proper military livery but used a POF lower fore stock, which is at least very nice Turkish walnut, and the upper forward handguard is birch. I have a spare LB to replace that one. The real heartbreaker is the fact that from the condition of the barrel, bolt, and receiver, it was almost pristine. It has 5 groove rifling and the blueing and finish is top notch. I will be doing a cosmetic restoration on it when I get a chance and I'll post pics of the before, during, and after process. It will still be a restored sporter, but at least it'll look a whole lot better. If it's a good shooter, I'll mount my PH5 sight on 'er and keep that one as my primary shooting Long Branch and just bring out the '50 once in a while.
 
Speaking of 1950's Long Branch rifles,..what ever happened to the two "new in the grease" 1950 rifles that were consecutively numbered and supposedly only sold as the set? I thought I might see one raise it's lovely head again. Was way of my budget at the time at around $2000 for both, but would I ever love to be opening up the safe tonight and seeing them snuggled up to each other in the corner.
 
Nice find. Good you're just cleaning it up. As for butt lengths, WWII production years are usually N marked for normal. Replacement butts possibly not. I can't remember if the '49/50's I've had were marked.
 
Quick. Sporterize it and put a cobbled together scope and mount on it. Obviously a joke. I've been looking for a full wood all original for a while myself and am having a hard time finding one. Seems 90% of what's out there was bastardized. Yours is a beaut. I'm jealous.
 
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