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In our case it was nothing. Just the rifle in short term preservation in a plastic bag, all in a reusable cardboard box. The mags and chargers, bayonets, slings and cleaning gear was all separate. All shipped by boxes by stock number. This looks more like the way a company that bought asset disposal goods would package them. But my past is with Canadian goods...and the Aussie and Kiwi rifles we got here in Canada in about 1980 all came in the heavy wood crates of ten. The sundry EIS came as ordered.
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06-02-2021 10:55 PM
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Great pics Kev, another piece of inch pattern history I've never seen....
Excellent 👌
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Very cool find, especially considering the box and the provenance.
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Strangely enough, I do remember polystyrene SLR packages being delivered to our Battalion armourers, and I vaguely remember thinking as they were being opened, "I'd like one of those new rifles for myself" as they were prestine.
Don't recollect the chests though.
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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You had to wait "a few" more years for your own SLR Gil!
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................................just putting her to bed
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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Spent a few years sleeping with mine back in the day
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I thought the equipment list picture Kev posted looked familiar.
Here is how the mags were stacked.
The cleaning roll and sling were sitting where the fourth magazine should be.
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Thanks for the photos, nice to get the photo back where it belongs. Nice SAF target Rifle, I have AD690017, they are an oddball target rifle and I can see why they lost out to the Omark
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