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Back in November I ordered a #4 Fazakerley from CFS. It arrived wrapped in an incredibly ugly Ishy stock.





I finally had a chance to shoot it this past week and must say I am very pleased with it. I was popping clays from the 50 yard line with relative ease, shooting with elbows on the bench using a 1907 sling while Kim was bopping me with 5.56x45 brass from the next lane.





Since this was the Monday after our district Spring Camporee neither of us felt much like hiking down to the 100 yard berm.





I have never been able to get any kind of consistancy from my Long Branch and the chamber on it is so sloppy that you can't hammer the brass from it into my other rifles. In order to FL size the brass I have to run it through the collet die first to size the neck then I can do the rest. Besides that, I really didn't care for the MkI* mod to the bolt release on the Long Branch.





My Long Branch had a very nice beech stock with grooved handguard so I really couldn't resist doing a swap before the Long Branch was retired to the back of the closet.





Here is the results. I gotta agree with the slogan from Dean's Gun Restorations, "Life's Too Short To Shoot an Ugly Gun"


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The magazine in this rifle has 7 numbers on it including one matching the rifle.







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Nice rifle Curtis,





Did you ever try just neck sizing the Long Branch cases as I'm surprised it didn't shoot.





My Ross produces gross cases and even with neck sizing I only get three or four shots from them, but boy is that one accurate rifle.





Have you tried lead in the the Long Branch? is it a two groove barrel?

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Adam.





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Adam, I have never tried lead in any of my rifles, the LB has a 5 groove barrel but the throat looks fairly burned out.





I have had the rifle for 2 years now and have yet to get any kind of consistancy from it. The Faz, on the other hand, will put them in a 6" bull at 100 yards for as long as the ammo holds out from a prone position.





The Faz also has a 5 groove but the bore is in great shape. There are no FTR marks on it so it may well be the original tube. It was one of those specials that CFS was running last year for around $99.







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I have a 1950 Fazakerley I got from J&G a while back. It also went through Ishapore, but all numbers match including the magazine. The stock is dark brown, rough and ugly but this rifle SHOOTS! At 100 yards it's dead on and was so right out of the box. This is the rifle that started this madness. I was just going to get that one Enfield. Now I have six of them.

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Curtis,





do you notice any difference between boat-tail and flat based bullets in it, also have you tried HXP through it?

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