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Oddbawl

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Got yer attention didn't I?
I'm just wondering what the mfg mark on your #5's flash hider is. I've got a complete '45 Faz on my hands and it has a M47C (BSA Shirley) flash hider. I sent Charles Stratton an email asking if part swapping between factories was common, and he couldn't give me a definitive answer on the hiders, he checked his #5, he owns a '45 Faz and his hider is an M47C too. My rifle isn't a rebuild as far as I can tell, every part jives the way it should, stampings and all. There's no other evidence of any parts swapped. What have you guys got out there?
 
I'll have to check now, I have a late '45 Faz (10/45 I think) and sold another to my borther also a late "45 Faz (9/45) so they are both very close to the end of the production run. Might have been trying to use up all the parts that were sitting around prior to the production ceasing.

I'll get back to you later this week
 
October 47 production

I have a No.5 that is also October production. It has an F over 47 marked flash hider. The rifle is close to mint, it looks like it is original to the rifle.

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Interesting, I've been in contact with 2 guys with '45s like mine, they both have M47C flashhiders on ROF (F) rifles. The story I'm going to stick to is that they swapped parts between factories. I can't see these being damaged all that easily and replaced, 4 rifles from the same year with the same part seems too much of a coincidence, but I guess you never know...
 
Mine is a 47 (F) Fazakerly with the M/47C flash hider. Serial # AB###X. I'm pretty sure is all original, even the mag and wood is stamped with the same number. I've even got a big white 32 painted on the buttstock, anyone know what that means?
 
Englishman ca and woodchopper, let's see photo's. With all due humbility, here is mine. I havent seen a nicer one. It sat in some old gentleman's closet for many years, along with one of those webbing rifle cases, still with the folds from the QM shelf. Mine is also a 1947 product, but from April.

Has yours got a small 5-pointed star in a square under the forearm?

timdianaca


Og
 
Can't make out the marks on my flash hider, apart from the crown - maybe c.g. lowercase in italics to the right of the crown. Ayway it's a 5/47 F.





The whole rifle is in great shape, but the stamps on the flash hider seem very light.
 
Just checked mine................

No 5MKIROF(F)
2/45 H##

Flash hider..........

M/47C

Mine is VERY very minty.................

Do not know if anything other than test rounds have ever been put through it.

As a result I have never shot it...
 
gabe

Oddball, when you're as cool as I am you won't need to conform to standards like matching socks either... :D
 
Yep,
So far all the '45 productions people are reporting in have a BSA hider on them. I posted on other boards and got similar responses. All this and I bet no one even cares...
 
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Oh we care..

Hell I even put out a press release on the Canadian Wire service.

Waiting for a call back from CBC and CTV as we speak!

Hell maybe CNN will grab this and run with it!!!

LOL
 
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