FNC1 poster

Excellent Work Koldt w:h: !!! Well done . I think a hard mount looks better IMHO
Nice looking SMG as well..its been a long time since I held either :(:(
 
I would go with the \hard mount so its easier to handle. I can defiantly see you taking it off the wall often to show people and a frame and glass would get tiresome real quick.
 
Fusilier said:
Without a word of a lie, I've had that exact conversation, pretty much word for word, with a stores clerk before over a gas mask once.

I'm talking about the sheet metal tail piece you attach to the actual grenade that was never seen. Remember the old HCL smoke grenades with the cylindrical sides and the rounded bottom. They were designed to fit into the grenade launching fin adapter that then slid over the adapter/front sight. Here's a photo from someone else's Photobucket gallery:
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I remember reading the old C1 manual where it talked about using the grenade launcher. Turn the gas plug around, load one round of the launching ammo (think really really really big blank round), put the butt of the rifle on the ground, pull the pin on the grenade, sit the rifle at an angle and pull the trigger. I can always remember the description that if the adapter fails and the grenade safety leaver flies off, the drill was to throw the entire rifle as far as you could and hit the ground. Man would I love to see the look on the QM's face when trying to return that rifle to stores. Bet they'd still make you clean the damn thing first. ;)

And you're quite right, the poster is awesome.
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Be glad they didn't issue the rifle grenade, none of the films I have seen made it look like fun. (I know they have one of the FN rifle grenade but couldn't find it today)
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=30756

PVT bloggins shows off their new FN
http://http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=62519
 
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KOLDT:

Isn't it against the CGNutz rules somewhere about not posting ####ographic pics on here? :nest:

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Here's me in Grade 11 at Vernon Area Rank and Trade School R031 Course! I was a Westie!

You are tugging at the hearts of us Cornwallis C1A1 members! :eek:

:cheers:

Barney
 
koldt said:
So the question is, glass and framed, or hard mount?

Hard mount. All the way. No glass to break, cheaper than getting it professionally framed, and it just plain looks better block mounted.

I have an old airforce buddy who had a grat poster of a flying Lancaster bomber that had seen better days. Creased, couple of tears, got it block mounted and it looked better than new.
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That is really cool, I got to use the 22 inserts while firing on the cinema range in Lahr, a few years ago, ok maybe 25, or more.
 
In the seventies, we actually fired Grenade Hand Smoke HC-C1A1 from the FN C1A1 using the Cup Adapter and Ballistite cartridges. As we only had a few grenades, we did not pull the pins, and wrapped orange survey tape to them so we could use them over. Mostly the shock of launch ripped the tape off, and the soft grass we used as a target berm made it time consuming to find the grenades. An interesting day, though.
 
Does anyone remember the FN Ex 1 (Cdn) rifles used at CABC (Canadian Airborne Centre), Edmonton, as the 'training' rifles for Basic Parachute courses? Some of those early 1950s trial FNs were pretty beat up by 1974! Being tied to snowshoes and going out the doors of a Herc on our shoulders, then off the shoulders - lowered with the rucksack at 200 feet or less (often MUCH less!) and ideally landing on the ruck (with the jumper landing NOT on the ruck!).

If the lowering rope was not rigged properly by the Basic Para students, taking the slung rifle and snowshoes off the shoulder under canopy would result in the rifle and snowshoes pulling the lowering strap through the buckle and dropping a thousand feet.

Some of those Ex 1 (Cdn)s looked as if they had experienced that event several times!
 
RIFLE 7.62 MILLIMETER C1A1, NSN 1005-21-111-2000, with Extra Long Stock, and with items as per Check List L-71-113/LC-000

The NSN will change depending on the length of the stock (XL, L, N, S), type (C1A1, C1A1D, C2A1) and wether or not Check list Items are included.
 
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