British L1A1s in Canada

Well, once I have it back together I will be happy to post a picture for Gibbs505. At the moment is is 95% in peices on my kitchen table.

In fact it will also have the L2A2 S.U.I.T scope installed that I have been hoarding (preciousss!) for the long awaited happy day (now arrived),that I would have a marynyl stocked Brit L1A1 to put underneath it:).

On a more sour note, I was preparing to install said newly bought scope on my Aussie rifle and go and sight it in the day I got the "Dear Sir, no more SAPs" letter. Bastards!:mad:

In the meantime, I bought it off of 72mustang, and last I looked, the advert was still up, with pics (milsurpEE, page4, listed as Ishy, which it is not, and why I am sending him a bit of extra money after the fact).

If you go and look, you will notice how unnaturally clean and shiny the barrel, flash eliminator and sides of the receiver are. Whoever refinished it polished it up really nicely before blueing it:eek:

I am giving serious thought to re-finishing it with Dura/Armacoat. I am sure they have a semi-gloss "Enfield black". The main issue is the blasting and parkerizing, since I am an apartment dweller and my "workshop" is my kitchen table. This is not conducive to home bluing/parking. on the other hand, shipping it to a smith who can do prohibs is also a hassle.
 
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...regarding the "bonus" sling swivel stud. Looks like bubba (though well made and reversibile without damage). I looked at illustrations of both the Army and Marine arctic slings, and both use or replace the regular front swivel, (though one of them has a sort of "plate" that wraps around the forestock).
 
allen lever brought in a lot of british BSA L1A1's that were black in color and sold for $199.00. He also brought in a lot of Australian L1A1 from singapore...marked SAP...singapore police...all in green park...
 
If memory serves me I believe they started being imported from Great Britain about the time they were destined for the shredder so they were shipped in mass around about 92/93 to North America.

A real nice firearm to shoot but it's too bad they were black, therefore bad, and now only collect dust.

Petra K.
 
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can14 said:
He also brought in a lot of Australian L1A1 from singapore...marked SAP...singapore police...all in green park...
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One of which is the first FN I ever bought. BTW they are marked SPF with a serial number (at least mine was). Carried a lot and shot very little, so they were in great shape and accurate.
 
Comes to think of it, you are correct. Early batch of Aussie L1A1s that came with a bayonet & cleaning kit at around $600? Lever also brought in some Aussie L2A1s in so so shape if I remember correctly.
 
Replaced handguards many years ago.
A battle scared veteran.
My brothers is mint.

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What makes one more desireable than the other?

any pictures that can show what factory original stocks looked like? Ive seen and have had a couple of Ishapore ones that have had different style'd wood stocks.
 
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C1A1's are probably the most desirable (local home team advantage) Brits/Aussies are next, with Indians at the bottom because they are the cheapest, most available, and the quality of fit and finish is not as good.

Can't do pictures at the moment, but there are generally three variations of forerstock.

1. The original wood (like in diopter's pictures).
2. Laminated wood
3. Black glass filled nylon/plastic British stocks (trade name "marynyl")

There are a couple of other variations, for example, late Canadian stocks did not have the two oblong cooling holes.
 
Mine is/was a select fire Aussie L1A1. Had to have the rock and roll switch pinned back in the day, then they prohibed them anyway. Been thinking of picking up an Indian one (cheap) and turning it into a para version, just for ####s and giggles and to give the government butt munchers a little more paperwork to do. - dan
 
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