inquiry on C7 rifle options

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G'day all:

Thought that I would make this inquiry here as I thought that among the milsurp-ers that there is likely more 'display' minded folk rather than in the balck rifle forum.

Here is my inquiry: I am in the process of getting together a display that I want to include a C7 rifle with. I see that Collector's Source has training resin C7 dummy rifles but for a fair chunk of change. Is there an alternative that I may not know about?

As always, you rhwlp is appreciated.

Cheers!
 
I handled one of the training rifles during a drill class on my PLQ. We were allowed to keep 'em in our syndicate rooms for evening training.

Looks good from afar, and far from good.

You could e-mail CS and ask for some close-up pics.

NS
 
Thanks guys, This won't be locked up in a gun room or anything so the norinco idea won't be the best. I would like to have some sort of collectable/histrical value so maybe my best bet is a resin training rifle, these actually were utillized by the CF during the implementation of the C7 rifle? is that almost $600 pricey though? Anyone else in Canada have these or is CS my only option.
 
Well you could get the Norc deactivated failing all else or post in the EE looking for a buggered gun that can be deactivated.
 
Smoking meth is both the cause and effect of a $600 price tag for a resin rifle. Your best bet is airsoft. You can get some dead ringers for real weapons, and the price won't kill you. If it's only for visual effect, you could even sell the guts of the airsoft gun and almost come out money ahead.

I agree, Tokyo Marui makes the best looking airsoft. Check out the airsoft canada forums for ideas, but be careful, the people that run and populate that board think they are akin to gods and don't tolerate questions ::rolleyes::
 
Well I am saddenned to hear that everyone thinks I paid too much for my C7 training rifle from collectors source. I didn't buy it as a C7 look-a-like, rather I bought it because it was a Cdn training rifle. The gun I got looks good, although it had been obviously dropped a time or two as was evidenced by some slight defects in the flash hider. It looks fine from a few feet away. They were not special made for the CF, and as such have no markings that make it Canadian. In fact, they are just movie prop guns.

If you want to make a good C7, C7A1 or a C7A2 clone, then the Chinese guns are a good base for deactivation. But they have not been surfacing all that often lately. One could also make a great dewat by lathing a dummy barrel, and keeping an eye on the exchange forum for the rest. Lower receivers only run $225 to $250 these days, and the odd upper shows up in the $125-175 range. Add some furniture, a dummy bolt carrier, a front site and a trigger (and your spare Elcan scope is you go for the A1 or A2) and you are pretty much there. Don't worry about the hammer etc, and deactivate it in the normal manner. You may have to be a bit innovative when you weld the upper and lower together in order that the weld is hidden.

There was a Cdn marked C7A1 airsoft upper and lower as well. It had all the diemaco markings, although the serial number was a Netherlands type. I made a C7A1 copy out of one of those by using actual AR-15 parts with a dummy barrel. It looked near perfect.
 
stencollector said:
If you want to make a good C7, C7A1 or a C7A2 clone, then the Chinese guns are a good base for deactivation. But they have not been surfacing all that often lately. One could also make a great dewat by lathing a dummy barrel, and keeping an eye on the exchange forum for the rest. Lower receivers only run $225 to $250 these days, and the odd upper shows up in the $125-175 range. Add some furniture, a dummy bolt carrier, a front site and a trigger (and your spare Elcan scope is you go for the A1 or A2) and you are pretty much there. Don't worry about the hammer etc, and deactivate it in the normal manner. You may have to be a bit innovative when you weld the upper and lower together in order that the weld is hidden.
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Are you offering! ;) I am so far from a welder it is not even funny. maybe after you get back from the sandbox we should chat?

Cheers!
 
stencollector said:
There was a Cdn marked C7A1 airsoft upper and lower as well. It had all the diemaco markings, although the serial number was a Netherlands type. I made a C7A1 copy out of one of those by using actual AR-15 parts with a dummy barrel. It looked near perfect.
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Enough bragging.

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This is the side of the airsoft "Candian forces Diemaco" receiver. There were only a very limited amount of these imported...the odds of finding one are slim. It actually is marked C8, and not C7
 
It's also got the Netherlands markings on it, rather than the CF markings.

CF Markings for a sample C8 would be:

00AB00000

With the leading 00 indicating year of manufacture, the AB indicating it's a Carbine, and the 5 digit serial number.

A C-7 would be indicated by the same, except for AA instead of AB.

As an aside, those airsoft receivers are still in production, in a clear/smoke finish.

NS
 
I thought airsoft are always a few mm smaller than their 'real steel' cousins. It is to prevent 'real steel' parts from being used in airsoft guns and turn them into functional firearms.
 
I have an Airsoft M-4 that I'm using for some positional practice stuff.

I can categorically state that this airsoft gun has NO "real steel" compatible parts.

Not one.

NS
 
I used all real C7 parts onto this one, although had to modify many of them to fit. This one was actually wider than a normal AR15. If I recall, I had to weld some extra onto the change lever so it would go all the way accross and fill the holes. I had to add some internal metal so the pistol grip had a place to sit. In the end it was a good dummy gun for display.

Navy Shooter, are there more of these receivers available in Canada?
 
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