'Falkland' Sniper
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Topic: 'Falkland' Sniper
Posted By: macG
Subject: 'Falkland' Sniper
Date Posted: December 06 2025 at 9:48am
Or sold as that on Shotgun News(I believe) in the mid 90s. Long Branch 1942. Does anyone else have one? Can anyone tell me anything about this rifle? No.4 Mk1 *
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Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: December 06 2025 at 10:05am
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What are the factory markings under where the bolt handle rests? |
Posted By: macG
Date Posted: December 06 2025 at 10:16am
I don't see any.
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Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: December 06 2025 at 11:29am
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Looks like a sportered No. 4 Mk I Look on the left flat surface of the receiver for markings. May also be a serial number on the left butt socket. Picture is not too clear. Certainly not a No. 4 T or L42 which is the .303 and 7.62 Sniper rifle respectively.
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Posted By: macG
Date Posted: December 06 2025 at 11:38am
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Yes it says 'Long Branch 1942 No 4 mk1 *' |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: December 06 2025 at 1:27pm
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Nah. "Buy the rifle, not the story." It a civvy sporterised fantasy gun. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: December 06 2025 at 3:09pm
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Yup, a sportered No. 4, worth a few hundred bucks at most. The only good thing is it appears the barrel was not chopped and the backsight lugs still intact. Would need a fore-end and a few other bits to restore it. Or, keep as. |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: December 06 2025 at 7:22pm
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might well be a great shooter tho , BTW id have thought SLRs in the falklands
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Posted By: terrylee
Date Posted: December 06 2025 at 8:46pm
 Falkland snipers with their L42s
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Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: December 07 2025 at 4:08am
| What Shamu said. |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: December 07 2025 at 5:11am
| Works for me. |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: December 07 2025 at 10:03am
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Our late member TONY was a Falklands vet. He told us they had Brens issued for the festivities because they had a shortage of lite machine guns. The FN was the standard infantry rifle. ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: terrylee
Date Posted: December 07 2025 at 10:49am
 A British L1A1 as used in the Falklands. Manufactured by Enfield. |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: December 07 2025 at 1:42pm
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thats what i was talking about , oh and terry lee - were the 'snipers' foragers ? loooks like thet have dinner well in hand there
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Posted By: DisasterDog
Date Posted: December 07 2025 at 5:25pm
| The L4 variant of Bren in 7.62 NATO was issued to supplement the GPMG, plenty of photos of it from the Falklands. |
Posted By: macG
Date Posted: December 22 2025 at 3:56pm
| Fair enough. Thank you all for responding. 'Falkland sniper' is not my story. It was how the gun was advertised, I will say tongue in cheek, in shotgun news, nothing more. If I believed the story, I wouldn't be asking. But for me, it wasn't about the story, but how many were sold like this, and if anyone else had one. The ad said it was factory-sporterized. And yet, I haven't seen one quite like it yet. |
Posted By: Zed
Date Posted: December 23 2025 at 4:19am
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No one with any clue about Lee Enfield accuracy would attach the sling to the barrel! So it's obviously a bubba job! It was a No4 Mk1/3 by the look of the receiver and stock cross bolt. ------------- It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice! |
Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: December 23 2025 at 4:28am
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Agree with Shaun, this is not a “factory” sportered rifle. Though it appears to have the full length barrel and the action body has not been cut up, so could be restored to factory configuration with a replacement fore-end, hand guards and barrel bands. Would need a backsight too. |
Posted By: DisasterDog
Date Posted: December 23 2025 at 9:11am
It does look like a cross bolt in the first photo, but the second photo shows that it is, in fact, a tie strap.
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Zed wrote:Posted By: Zed
Date Posted: December 23 2025 at 12:58pm
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You are correct DisasterDog. , I only looked at the first photo. So just a No4 Mk1* ------------- It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice! |