Used to be a Longbranch...

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Those words hurt, wish I was rich enough to save that poor thing.

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I have the same stock for my no.4 (It was already bubba'd i promise). I use it as my deer rifle...mine is all matching numbers so I will eventually put her back to original...:D

I would never drill and tap one tho!!! There are so many "no-gunsmith" mounts available nowadays, why would you spend more money getting something drilled and ruined?
 
oh god !!! oh god noo:eek: its horible hoooorrrrrrible oh the humanity, think of the children wont someone pleaaaase think of the children!!!! lol but seriously why bother with all that work?:confused:
 
i dont know much about enfields but arent longbranches typically full wood? (I mean the stock goes nearly to the tip of the barrel)
 
That is the essense of "sporterizing". Cut off all the extra wood, or in this case, remove it entirely and put on a plastic stock. 400.00 rifle becomes a 200.00 rifle. The oldtimers did it because LE's were dirt cheap and plentiful and they wanted something lighter to pack around in the bush. Now, in the days of 400.00 Stevens and Mossberg rifles, its just stupid.
 
charles.emond said:
i dont know much about enfields but arent longbranches typically full wood? (I mean the stock goes nearly to the tip of the barrel)
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All military enfields would have been full wood. The wood was cut back when sporterized, either done by BSA for commercial sale, or at home (bubbafying). Bubbas sometimes also include drilling and tapping for a scope and cutting down the barrel.

Longbranch is the Canadian plant that made No. 4 Mk. I's, hence when someone mentions a Longbranch, they are referring to a Canadian-made No. 4. It'll look about the same as a No. 4 made in the UK or by Savage in the US.
 
Well, he is not gonna be happy when he learns that that rifle is worth less then $250 now. I say the only thing worth of value is probably the scope (I am not familiar with scope prices so i may be wrong) But the strange thing is, their will probably be another bubba out their who will be like "hey looky here, this here rifle is already cut down, and for only $600! Thats wills saves me loads of times!":p
 
It's kind of sad that he's asking $200.00 more for that abortion than what I paid last year for a matching 1944 longbranch in excellent shape and with bayonet and frog, 200 pieces of brass, a nearly full box of 150gr hornady sp, dies, and about 20 chargers.

...Then again he did spend $900.00 on it...

If I spent $900 getting my car chopped up do you think I could ask three times the going rate for it too?
 
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