Did Canadian FN's ever come with plastic stocks?

sf said:
Not to my recollection until the cheap stuffs came in by the hundreds from Israel and elsewhere in the 80's. That's when the Order-In-Council BS took place overnight.
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You might be right about the Israelis, not sure, I thought you meant the $99 Ishapores, they were long restricted by then.
 
It appears that everyone on this thread has a military background. My very first experience with a "high powered" rifle was in the student summer militia during high school. We fired the FN (C1 I think) at the ranges at Ipperwash. My recollection is that they were .308. Fantastic rifle from my memory. Had a perfect score at the range, the only time that had happened to that date in a student militia summer program from the Sarnia militia. Was told the Captain wanted to see me right away... thought I was in deep sh**t.
The other thing that was funny when we arrived at the camp, all the students at the camp saluted us. We apparently had insignia of some sort on our uniform that suggested or indicated that we were either regular army or lance corporal rank.
Another incident that occurred that summer happened when we were on a bivouac just outside the city limits in a wooded area. We had a little mock battle using flashlights. Apparently someone in the residential area not far from the woods saw these flashlights and called the police. By the time the cops arrived (township police) the "battle" had ended and some of us were sent on perimeter patrol and were given FN's(no ammo though). My buddy and I encountered the cops and as we were instructed, we challenged them and actually took them to the Captain. If that were to happen today, we probably would have been shot by the cops.
I don't know if this was a setup by the Captain or not but I suspect it was.
 
meadowmuffin3 said:
It appears that everyone on this thread has a military background. My very first experience with a "high powered" rifle was in the student summer militia during high school. We fired the FN (C1 I think) at the ranges at Ipperwash. My recollection is that they were .308. Fantastic rifle from my memory. Had a perfect score at the range, the only time that had happened to that date in a student militia summer program from the Sarnia militia. Was told the Captain wanted to see me right away... thought I was in deep sh**t.
The other thing that was funny when we arrived at the camp, all the students at the camp saluted us. We apparently had insignia of some sort on our uniform that suggested or indicated that we were either regular army or lance corporal rank.
Another incident that occurred that summer happened when we were on a bivouac just outside the city limits in a wooded area. We had a little mock battle using flashlights. Apparently someone in the residential area not far from the woods saw these flashlights and called the police. By the time the cops arrived (township police) the "battle" had ended and some of us were sent on perimeter patrol and were given FN's(no ammo though). My buddy and I encountered the cops and as we were instructed, we challenged them and actually took them to the Captain. If that were to happen today, we probably would have been shot by the cops.
I don't know if this was a setup by the Captain or not but I suspect it was.
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Great story! The Captain must have been deeply impressed when you hauled in a couple of cops! I can just imagine...:D:eek:

What could they say? You were doing what you were told...:D
 
The cops had me face down on the ground on EX .............and that was only 7 years ago

BTW i don't remember any fn s with plastic not Canadian anyway the only thing i remember plastic was the carry handle
 
I never saw an FN with Plastic on it...I saw the inventories in Cold Lake, Borden, Edmonton, Calgary, Comox, Greenwood, Sumemrside, Gagetown, Trenton, Rivers, Moose Jaw, Shearwater and Gander
 
these are the only two styles i have seen (and own) .

top is for C1 and bottom is for a C1A1 . both made of dark walnut wood.

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I did see a plastic handgaurd in CDN use, but the only prob so was the rest of the rifle lol. The dummy rilfes I saw at CABC were plastic LOL
R711 OUT
 
TimC said:
Canada never had the round profile handguard?
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round HG?

no, we never had a round HG, basicly the same style with 3 vent slots , 2 slots and no slot.... the 3 slots was before the C1, trial stage.
 
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Round wooden HG with 3 vent holes on each side. Only seen in Brit & Aussie issued L1A1s.
 
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