C1A1 Sniper Rifle

I Dont Car About You and points,,, more great stories.

I wonder were those trial FN's are now.

D@m I can almost relate to the gas hut one first hand.

In the remaining days of the C1"s my Wpn Tech buddy at Borden was scrambling for parts across Canada for some of the C1's to put in Base Museums.

They almost cut themselves out of their own game, a dollar short and a day late.

cantom,,, thanks for the video, just listening to the sound of firing brought me right back.

Fast Fwd to 13:18 and I laughed like hell,,, the best part of the video!!!!

I'm cryin laughing!!!

Too bad we have not invented smells to along with movies yet!
 
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Nice video. The 5-quarter at the beginning brings back memories. We had those as Det vehicles and lived out it for weeks during FallEx. I still have a 5-quarter key. ;)
 
There is a trials EX1 FN at the Ashton Armouries museum in Victoria
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Cool piece of cold war history.

I have actually have seen one of those long ago, but I really don't remember all the details on them.

The 5-quarter at the beginning brings back memories
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We had a 5/4 that was a communications Signals vehicle that we always absconded for dubious purposes.

When we retuned the 5/4's to the Sigs, let's just say they were really pissed.


Another weird C1 story from my Basic Training days.

We had a few Admin female recruits on our course that obviously were going to fail if they did not pass on the range.

Training Master Corporal calls me aside and says, private, you definitely can shoot so could you coach them along to pass the range qualifications.

After about 15 minutes, they come back at me and say, load your weapon on the mound next to them and show them how you do it on their target.

Next thing, target goes down, they scored bullseye hits without discharging their weapon.

I had to do that for all three of them.
 
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They dug out an instructional Cdn. FAL in TQ3. It looked like an Israeli or metric pattern FAL. I do not recall if it was a cut away. Were they foreign made?
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Are you talking about TQ3 at the school in Borden?

If so, the schools lockup had a few odd-ball FN's, but I hate to say it, I never really took a hard look at them. I do know one was actually made in Belgium.
 
fat tony said:
They dug out an instructional Cdn. FAL in TQ3. It looked like an Israeli or metric pattern FAL. I do not recall if it was a cut away. Were they foreign made?
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The Shilo museum has one of the cut-aways. It came to the museum from the base library, where training aids were kept. It is one of the EX-1 rifles, although the NSN describes it as a C1 cut-away.

EX-1 rifles were distributed to CF museums in the early 2000s. One of those in the Shilo museum as an additional engraving on the model identifying it as an EX1/2. The only difference I can spot on it from the regular EX-1 is that it has the arctic trigger guard.

From the serial numbers that I have observed, it would appear there were 1700 EX1s and another 300 EX2 rifles. I have an example of each (sadly they are deactivated) in my collection. The EX2 came to me missing the optical sight. Seaforth bid on one for me from an auction in BC, which went for a very favourable price. They had described it as being for the EM-2.
 
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Petawawa. Getting the old synapses to fire, I think it was a Belgian made FAL with no flash hider, making it look oddly carbine like.
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Early 1980s I was in Petawawa and saw CAR members carrying the C1 minus the flashhider and was informed they where Pathfinders, certainly looked like normal C1s less the hider to me.
 
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Early 1980s I was in Petawawa and saw CAR members carrying the C1 minus the flashhider and was informed they where Pathfinders, certainly looked like normal C1s less the hider to me.
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I did not know it at the time but it had all the details that meant it was a metric pattern rifle. It had the cylindrical charging handle with knob for example.
 
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The Shilo museum has one of the cut-aways. It came to the museum from the base library, where training aids were kept. It is one of the EX-1 rifles, although the NSN describes it as a C1 cut-away.

EX-1 rifles were distributed to CF museums in the early 2000s. One of those in the Shilo museum as an additional engraving on the model identifying it as an EX1/2. The only difference I can spot on it from the regular EX-1 is that it has the arctic trigger guard.

From the serial numbers that I have observed, it would appear there were 1700 EX1s and another 300 EX2 rifles. I have an example of each (sadly they are deactivated) in my collection. The EX2 came to me missing the optical sight. Seaforth bid on one for me from an auction in BC, which went for a very favourable price. They had described it as being for the EM-2.
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The Ex1/2 has a US Belgian T48 trigger mech and pistol grip.
 
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Back in the 80's I was at a joint range meetup at Borden with a team from the U.S. Army and if I recall, they were out of Buffalo.

We had all our weapons laid out on the firing mound, our C1-C2's and C5's, they had M16-A2's and M-249 - M-60's.

One U.S. soldier walks over to me and asks, how come you boys brought out weapons from your museum, not realizing these were current issue for us.

All I could do was laugh and try to hold a straight face while I was trying to answer him.

They did have a hoot trying out the C1's though.
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Hey Garth was this with the MP Coy from the Connecticut St. Armoury in Buffalo?
 
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