ARmy Rumour SErvice

**putteesinmyhands** · 28-08-2012, 22:58

Originally Posted by Taff49

in mine, Cuts? I'm not sure, it's not my rifle, though I can ask the owner next time i get a plink on it.

to be honest, I couldn't tell the difference anyway, bonnie lad!!

Compare it with JJH's - he's got what looks like a proper one (and fitted the right way round).

**Cutaway** · 28-08-2012, 23:05

Originally Posted by Taff49

in mine, Cuts? I'm not sure, it's not my rifle, though I can ask the owner next time i get a plink on it.

to be honest, I couldn't tell the difference anyway, bonnie lad!!

Course you would !
G3 - bit of dead cow, buckle & rivet.
L1A1 - webbing with C-hooks.

In this pic.

**Oddbod** · 28-08-2012, 23:48

Originally Posted by ECE-Tech

http://www.arrse.co.uk/attachment.ph...1&d=1346187911

As soon as I looked at this "photo", something seemed wrong to me.
Zoom in to where the magazine goes in to the housing. photo-shopped.
Sub-scale airsoft rather than real thing maybe?

Yep

I win all my matches in the US using an airsoft.

Here it is with an imaginary Zeiss scope on an imaginary railed top cover too:

**Oddbod** · 28-08-2012, 23:58

Here's a close-up of my airsoft L1A1 receiver & magazine, complete with airsoft Hythe sight:

**putteesinmyhands** · 29-08-2012, 01:14

It's not ex-British Army, though, is it? The only time that I've seen the double-leaf rear sight was on a cutaway FN.

edited to add:

Just found this thread: "Hythe" sight for the SLR?

...but I'm still not totally convinced that it was on general issue.

**Oddbod** · 29-08-2012, 01:20

Originally Posted by putteesinmyhands

It's not ex-British Army, though, is it? The only time that I've seen the double-leaf rear sight was on a cutaway FN.

It's all original bar the receiver (& 922(R) compliant parts of course....).
I have the dead tritium front post sitting around waiting for me to dig out the old vial & stick in a new one.
They were never particularly common but came in three versions.

**ugly** · 29-08-2012, 07:32

Originally Posted by Oddbod

The Septics meddled in the design of the FAL too & even had several thousand made to their specifications.

Then dumped it in favour of the cumbersome M-14 "because the M-14 could be built using Garand production lines" (which it couldn't).
They're buggers for NIH.

Like this, wierd alteration to pistol grip and trigger guard, note also Shrek was as US Draftee;

**ugly** · 29-08-2012, 07:35

Originally Posted by Cutaway

Course you would !
G3 - bit of dead cow, buckle & rivet.
L1A1 - webbing with C-hooks.

In this pic.

That actually looks like a Pattern 14 sling upside down, go well on a Ross!

**ugly** · 29-08-2012, 07:37

Originally Posted by Oddbod

It's all original bar the receiver (& 922(R) compliant parts of course....).
I have the dead tritium front post sitting around waiting for me to dig out the old vial & stick in a new one.
They were never particularly common but came in three versions.

We seemed to have come to an arrsse concensus that there was a Bn allocation and they ended up being fitted to shooting team rifle usually. I have yet to see the front sight in the flesh rather than on an old B&W "Fighting Patrol" training film!