A friend of mine who served on the Tera Nova in early 70`s 71-73 remembers a indivdual firing from the deck A FN C1 looking weapon (and No it was NOT a C2 ) that had NO bi pod but did have a large letter A carved in the butt stock. WTF was it? an odd ball no doubt. I ever heard of this version in Canadian hands other than the FN C1 8L version that started out as selective fire but the Large letter A carved in stock is different it must have stood for Automatic?
Canadian Full Auto FN in navy
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No. the only difference as far as I have been told, is that the C1 was semi, and the C2 was full. The C1's were easily converted to full auto (flipping something called the "change lever"), which was an infantryman's trick as far as I have been told by someone who carried one for many years.
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Ayup,
Navy versions were FA.
A mentioned, it was the FN C1A1D
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Navy versions were FA.
A mentioned, it was the FN C1A1D
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It was not a soliders trick it was a specific variation of the Canadian FN weapon and as i said.It had a large letter A carved in the stock, carved with a dremel type tool not a jack knife. Armory or manufacturer creation.
Holy crap man you just took me back a whole lot of years with the mention of that mod
Sad thing is that from what i hear that there is less than 500 FN`s left in Canada after the 2005/06 make Canada safer move.
Of course you could always take the front end of a C1 and put on the back end of a C2, saw that done a couple times, of course it was blanks and a night patrol, no wait saw it once on a range. of course there was the match stick trick.
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there a few fn's in gagetown, mostly for training aids. we have one in our lock up. but just one along with a smg. just for training though. you might also find a few c 2's in cfb borden at the weapon school. i shot it there in 96 and in 08.
