Museum's inventory: F.N. CDN EX1

[TCBF]

The EX 1 was the only rifle I ever jumped out of a Hercules with. All my other eqpt jumps were with a folded SMG tied to the Rucksack, Universal, C2, with blue 80 lb test cord.

CABC was in Edmonton back then, and those EX1s were beat up bad. Mine only fell about 800 feet once. The flash eliminator and snowshoe trails were visible sticking up out of the snow. The yellow twenty-foot lowering rope had made this cool zig-zag foot-deep hole when it hit the wind driven snow. Snowshoes worked fine after that and the EX 1 passed a function test. We never shot them, so - good to go.

 

[mikerock]

 

[XRCD011]

^ that's breathtaking. Thanks for sharing.

 

[mikerock]

We were assisting a reserve unit with an enemy weapons familiarisation shoot and they brought that along.

 

[36 hamon]

i had an early C1 never upgraded to A1 still had the little wood carry handle and the slotted fore end and the one piece firing pin ...ex dcra rifle bought back in the day from CAL by a dcra shooter ....0L0891 iirc.....one day ill look for the old paperwork and check that number ....my buddy has a 1L### c1 that came out of an old museum years ago ....thing looks unfired and thx our crappy govt it never will be fired

 

[fat tony]

The only grenade discharger I was aware of for the C1 was a US style spigot launcher. They were used with the old US 'lemon style' grenades. We are talking way back in the 60s to early 1970s, never seen spigots in CQM, not even in dusty boxes in the back, but this was back in the 1980s.

Upper left.

Not sure what the Cdn designation was, if there ever was one.

 

[37patt]

Here the picture of the markings on the only one FN C1 we have in the collection. This one is dated from 1968 and was made here in Canada. C.A.L. stands for Canadian Arsenals Limited.



Martin

Hi Martin

It looks like your FN has a replacement upper receiver on it as the serial number 4L4715 puts it in about the middle of 1958 for a manufacture date. I recorded the serial numbers of just over 1100 FN's back in 1988/89 and there are many out of sequence serial numbers.
Does the serial number on the upper receiver look hand stamped?

Awesome collection you get to play with. Keep up the excellent posts.

 

[fat tony]

Here is a thread that mentions L1A1 and C1A1 rifles & their use with grenade launchers:

http://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=24579

hopefully it's alright to use the pics for educational purposes only. As pics of Cdn C1A1 spigots are about as common as unicorn snot, I will beg forgiveness. . .

From the opinions on the linked thread, there was never a domestically produced spigot for the C1A1.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Here is a thread that mentions L1A1 and C1A1 rifles & their use with grenade launchers:

http://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=24579

hopefully it's alright to use the pics for educational purposes only. As pics of Cdn C1A1 spigots are about as common as unicorn snot, I will beg forgiveness. . .

From the opinions on the linked thread, there was never a domestically produced spigot for the C1A1.

I would assume the yellow gadget is a line throwing rig ?

Grizz

 

[fat tony]

Not sure, the pics belong to someone else, but it indeed looks like a weight for a line throwing rig.

 

[stencollector]

I had a butt stock pistol grip and one of mags for one, but sold them last year.
The stock was marked with the serial number similar to the in the pictures.

Coincidentally I purchased a butt stock, a pistol grip, and a magazine for my EX1 dewat the other year from a guy named albayo. They weren't cheap, but then again I have not seen another set of them since.

 

[Desert_Fox]

Could that pic of the EX1 with the K98k style Grenade Launcher perhaps be an early converted prototype Launcher for the West German G1 FAL? Maybe made by FN on a trials basis? Or perhaps someone just added a K98k Launcher to the rifle to make it look nifty?

(I think this is a West German BGS {"BundesGrenSchutz" Border Guard} soldier with a G1 and Grenade launcher. Love the Splinter Camo Smock/Zelt he is wearing.)

 

[Lee Enfield]

Could that pic of the EX1 with the K98k style Grenade Launcher perhaps be an early converted prototype Launcher for the West German G1 FAL? Maybe made by FN on a trials basis? Or perhaps someone just added a K98k Launcher to the rifle to make it look nifty?

(I think this is a West German BGS {"BundesGrenSchutz" Border Guard} soldier with a G1 and Grenade launcher. Love the Splinter Camo Smock/Zelt he is wearing.)

I would draw your attention to the fact that the rifle in the picture is a FAL-Canada (tall front and rear sights) rather than a G1 which means it is probably a pre 1956 picture as the border police order predated the G1 changes for the national army.

 

[Desert_Fox]

I would draw your attention to the fact that the rifle in the picture is a FAL-Canada (tall front and rear sights) rather than a G1 which means it is probably a pre 1956 picture as the border police order predated the G1 changes for the national army.

Good to know! Thanks for the correction.

 

[Sharps '63]

I doubt that it's a Canadian made FAL. Looks like that rifle has a folding bipod dissimilar to that of the Canadian C2.

This one looks more practical. That of the C2 was a back breaker for me unless I dug the legs into holes with a bayonet (or over the edge of an embankment) and then the long 30 rd mag dug into the dirt. The Americans did it right with the 20 rd mag of the BAR.

Loved the C1; hated the C2.

 

[Lee Enfield]

I doubt that it's a Canadian made FAL. Looks like that rifle has a folding bipod dissimilar to that of the Canadian C2.

This one looks more practical. That of the C2 was a back breaker for me unless I dug the legs into holes with a bayonet (or over the edge of an embankment) and then the long 30 rd mag dug into the dirt. The Americans did it right with the 20 rd mag of the BAR.

Loved the C1; hated the C2.

FN referred to the original FAL design as the FAL-Canada in honor of the fact that Canada was the first country to make a quantity order for the FAL.

There had been about 50 Development, experimental and Trials rifles manufactured before Canada's order for 2000 rifles in June/July 1953.