FN C1A1 - Prohibited?

I had the pleasure of having one in the British Army as my personal weapon for nine years before they replaced them with the SA80. Best gun ever, and it never let me down accurate to 600m (8in group at 600m with iron sights). Maybe we should lobby parlament to allow them please back any takers? Dont make a grown man beg.
 
A friend of mine has one and he can't even take it to the range now as his ATT has been revoked for his FN. I suspect some day they'll try to revoke all ATT for all prohibs.

Bloody rediculous if you ask me!
 
That was the first gun I ever shot... my grandfather had one... his was full auto though and he served with it he requested his rifle when he was done serving with it and it took him 4 months to get... its currently in a museum after he passed away since I was to young to have a fac to own it... (Was willed to me directly)

Frist gun I ever shot man was it fun..


I still rember all the people that lived around my grandfather were mad as heck when they changed the law so they went shooting in the bush instead.. I still see some of the old guys and kids out there with the full auto toys.. I simply look the other way.. not my job to report it ect..
 
Hey Hungry what course were you? I was 8411 Gothic Line. My favorite memory of using the C1 was remooving the BFA and putting a thunderflash over the muzzel. Then light her up and you could place right through any window in town.

Hungry here: I was 7708 Canal Du Nord. Our DS (directing staff) called us: Canal Des Nerds ! LOL

As a Westie playing enemy force on an Ex with 12 Svc Bn back in 1975, we lay in an ambush for their lead AFV's driven by the BCR's in Chilliwackistan Hvy Eqpt area. My Warrant (a jumper) set me up with an empty LAW tube, then he set up his FN with said TFlash, but it had a chamber packed with pebbles then mounted on the FNC1A1 flash hider all ready to be lit.

When the BCR M113A1 came around the corner, he lit the TFlash in my LAW tube (thank god for earplugs) and picked up his FNC1A1.

As my Law fired (BOOOM!), he let loose the blank round which propelled the Tflash loaded with pebbles at the lead M113, it landed on the top deck , detonated and wiped out the fellas sitting on the top hatch. Boy were they pizzed at us! :eek:

All I can remember was hitting our exfil route across a swollen creek (this was in the fall). As the recce patrolmen pursued us, that cold water did not feel so cold anymore. They gave up the chase as we scrambled up the opposite bank. Thank goodness for jungle boots. I wore them instead of my MkII combat boots. Our Warrant suggested all of us who had jungle boots to wear them, he was a gungho character. All great FNC1A1 fun! :D
 
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My father was an armourer back in the day. We've had a few conversations about the weapons of his day. When I brought up the fact that the C1 is semi, he told me that the full-auto C2 parts drop in. The C2 and Browning hi power were his favourites. "Wicked gun" he called that browning.
 
TimC said:
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Wainright 1986
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Crossmaglen 1987
Oh happy days!
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What is the second guy carrying in the wainright pic? Is that a Bren?
 
We just slid the tube of the thunderflash over the flash suppreser. Seemed to fit quite well. The only trick was the timeing no one wants to have the T-flash sent back. Great story Hungry brought back some fond memories of running around in the dark laughing your a** of and trying not to be caught by some very angry and motivated poeple.
 
remeswamprat said:
I had the pleasure of having one in the British Army as my personal weapon for nine years before they replaced them with the SA80. Best gun ever, and it never let me down accurate to 600m (8in group at 600m with iron sights). Maybe we should lobby parlament to allow them please back any takers? Dont make a grown man beg.
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When I joined back in 1967 it was THE service rifle to beat all service rifles. Two years later I was in a part of the Army whose personal weapon was the Sterling SMG, but never stopped shooting the SLR. I even bought my own in 1974 and kept it until 1988 when they were all banned. By then, of course, we were well into the replacement POS.

Luckily, my bit of the Army did not have to use much in the way of issue equipment, although it was necessary whenever we were seen in public. When we were given the Freedom of Ashford, and had to parade, many had to re-learn to drill with the new obscenity... A close friend of mine described it as a piece of equipment that fell to the hand as easy as a working chainsaw.

tac
 
Easy to get when I shot DCRA in the 60's, just sign one out of the Armory. I know the paperwork was pretty sloppy and I have a feeling a person could have kept theirs if they really wanted to.
 
I don't remember the serial of the one I used to grab... It started 8L what I remember about it was that it had the 23B on the bottom of the grip and the bottom of the stock.. Was the only one in the armory so marked...Stood out like a sore thumb.. But everyone knew it was mine.. Would have thought it was 238 but if I remember the serial ended 235... When they put me on the C2 all I remember was that it was heavy..
 
shortandlong said:
since we are going down memory lane ....who is this goofy lookin 15 year old in 1987

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still working on the foolish part
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is that goose spit?

REALTHING7 said:
I shot 1000's of rounds though an FN C1A1 as a teenager! I was in the army cadets and spent my summers in Vernon BC at the base on the highway. Every morning we would march down to the armory and pick up a rifle and carry it with us all day long. I was hoping to pick one them up sometime but have never seen one since. We went through bayonet drills, target shooting, shooting blanks on parade and cleaning cleaning cleaning. I think they still use them in Vernon at the base.... Hmmm. Anybody want to sell me one??
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they no longer use them i belive they went to the smelter in the late 90's.
vernon went from the C1 back to the #4 for a couple years then back to the C1 for a year before they adopted the C7
 
ipscgraz said:
What is the second guy carrying in the wainright pic? Is that a Bren?
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I seem to recall it was a 1943 Inglis Mk1 converted to L4. It was amazingly accurate and we used our 6 weeks at Wainwright in 86 to get Recce pln ready for a 2 year tour in NI.
Great gun but Bde demanded we swap back to the GPMG as we spent a lot of the tour in S Armagh and they wanted us to have more firepower!
 
tacfoley said:
When I joined back in 1967 it was THE service rifle to beat all service rifles. Two years later I was in a part of the Army whose personal weapon was the Sterling SMG, but never stopped shooting the SLR. I even bought my own in 1974 and kept it until 1988 when they were all banned. By then, of course, we were well into the replacement POS.

Luckily, my bit of the Army did not have to use much in the way of issue equipment, although it was necessary whenever we were seen in public. When we were given the Freedom of Ashford, and had to parade, many had to re-learn to drill with the new obscenity... A close friend of mine described it as a piece of equipment that fell to the hand as easy as a working chainsaw.

tac
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Slime!:welcome:
 
David K said:
BUT the Lower receiver on all the ones I've seen do have the three position marking for safety, semi and AUTO.
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Yup, I've owned at least 2, frig maybe more, FNL1 lower receivers marked with an A on the last position. My current C1 obviously doesn't, and thank the gawds for that. Who knows what would happen if the letter A was in place? Havoc would be reeked.
 
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