Eal
- Thread starter TRPOperator
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I've see EAL's with 2 and 3 digit serial numbers. When the referenced article was written, that's the only info the author had at the time. If you post a picture I can tell you for sure...lots a unique features that define an EAL. Yours is most likely correct.
That's a perfectly normal serial number. It's 99% likely to be a standard commercial EAL with 10 round mag and 200/400 yard flip sight in the standard Enfield location. If you have some pics of it and don't know how to post them I can do it for you.
It's unlikely to be RCAF or Ranger but who really knows? There's a certain amount of confusion about the EAL's.
Eal test for the sharp eyed!
This is a completely normal Commercial EAL rifle, with one anomoly. Who can spot it first??
And no, it's not that I blacked out the s/n or that the sling is on upside down.
This is a completely normal Commercial EAL rifle, with one anomoly. Who can spot it first??
And no, it's not that I blacked out the s/n or that the sling is on upside down.
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Dont recall if the two EAL's I've had were CA stamped on knox..been a few years. I saw one with '46 stamped on the left chamber area once. I asked the fellow about it and he said it was there when he bought it brand new.
Geoff
Geoff
You got it right, that loop shouldn't be there. But RGG7 spotted the No 1 mag which I missed...
I still have no idea what sling EAL's had when new...did they even have one?
EAL sling
The factory sling for an EAL was a Pattern 37 strap with stitching in the form of an X with a box around it where the end of the straps got folded over the swivels back on to the strap. The wider part of the strap was obviously positioned closer to the muzzle.
Tacky? Maybe...hard to take off? You bet...Original ....Yes!
Cheers Paul
The factory sling for an EAL was a Pattern 37 strap with stitching in the form of an X with a box around it where the end of the straps got folded over the swivels back on to the strap. The wider part of the strap was obviously positioned closer to the muzzle.
Tacky? Maybe...hard to take off? You bet...Original ....Yes!
Cheers Paul
No, they all had the stamped guards. Only early Long Branches, like 41-43 had the milled guards unless someone swapped them later on.
All EAL's had CA on the knox form, Canadian Arsenals.
So Riflechair's EAL did have an original EAL sling?
6167, how were you able to find that out about the sling? Seen something in print?
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- Pile of Bones, SK
Doesn't seem like the loop in question is that much of an anomaly. Looks like Riflechair's has one as well. Although in this second picture the trigger guard is a milled version, and likely was a replacement.
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Good point, it does seem a fair number of EAL's are seen with trigger guard loops. Maybe it depended on whether they had any of their new made ones in the bin at the time or had some recycled LB ones with the loops?
My civilian and military pattern EAL's don't have loops.
Over all these years, who knows what's been swapped around in people's basements too. It only takes 2 minutes to swap one out.
My civilian and military pattern EAL's don't have loops.
Over all these years, who knows what's been swapped around in people's basements too. It only takes 2 minutes to swap one out.
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Yep, who knows for sure.
That's an interesting piece of info right there. It was a Ranger rifle? That s/n is what we'd consider a normal commercial model.
What I think is, the Commercial model we recognize was what EAL made at first, then switched over to the other style later in production. It seems logical since we've never seen the Commercial style with a high serial number or the Military style with a low one.
No reason to disbelieve your story at all, I'm sure it's true.
I've identified 3 different standard EAL configurations. In addition we've seen a bunch of different rear sight arrangements.
Early EAL buttstock
EAL (Commercial)
EAL Late (Military?)
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One thing has always puzzled me. WHY does the military version have a commercial rear sight and the commercial version has a militatry peep sight????
