L1A1 Single Shot "UK" spec?? Any ideas?

[daryldiane]

Yes everyone will have one now, will have to bring in a special comp for L1A1's
How are you all going to sight yours, I'm going to try my Trilux first.
Won't be at Bisley on 17th April, Dave, but will be there 10th and the 24th.

[David TS]

Yes everyone will have one now, will have to bring in a special comp for L1A1's
How are you all going to sight yours, I'm going to try my Trilux first.
Won't be at Bisley on 17th April, Dave, but will be there 10th and the 24th.

Hopefully they won't be quite as common as muck

Sighting a straight pull does bring fun all of its own

I want to try and stretch mine out to 600 yards so I have a Zeiss Conquest 6.5-20x50 to put on it.

I thought I would be smart with my Sig Sauer 522 .22LR semi and use an optical collimator, turned out the scope sat so high it was completely over the top of the collimator

If that won't work with the SLR, I will have to resort to the time honoured method of get it pointing roughly in the right direction, find the biggest zeroing target board I can, and use a spotter to check the strikes in the backstop. I've got 200 cheap PRVI to start off with....

[daryldiane]

Irons should be good to 600yrds. Going to try my usual handloads 43grn Vit 140 Lapua 155's, also Men nato and RG nato, see if I have extraction problems. I find privi useful but not brilliant, and the powder they use is very dirty and takes ages to clean out.

[David TS]

Irons should be good to 600yrds. Going to try my usual handloads 43grn Vit 140 Lapua 155's, also Men nato and RG nato, see if I have extraction problems. I find privi useful but not brilliant, and the powder they use is very dirty and takes ages to clean out.

Irons no good at 600 when your eyesight is as bad as mine

PRVI are cheap and cheerful, but they will do me to get set up then move to something a bit classier

[Peter Laidler]

Just a couple of questions.......
Why do they cock from the right hand side instead of the usual left hand side?
Is the original cocking handle still in position and can it be used instead?
Why is there a problem with extraction? There should be a primary extraction to break the tapered seal of the cartridge case in the chamber just after mechanical safety when the breech block carrier is lifting the bolt from LOCKED to UNLOCK from the locking shoulder. The breech block rotates about the top front surface as it's being lifted and the extractor just tweaks the spent case.

[Charlie303]

Peter,

Why do they cock from the right hand side instead of the usual left hand side?

What makes you think these cock on the RHS? The picture of Gavin at Bisley with his straight pull L1A1 appears to cock on the LHS.

Charlie

[daryldiane]

As far as I'm aware they do cock on the left, just that the previous straight pull FALs based on the Imbel receiver had a reputation for difficult extraction especially with RG.
Gavin has said the new barrels have polished chambers to make extraction easier, will soon find out.

[David TS]

Just a couple of questions.......
Why do they cock from the right hand side instead of the usual left hand side?
Is the original cocking handle still in position and can it be used instead?
Why is there a problem with extraction? There should be a primary extraction to break the tapered seal of the cartridge case in the chamber just after mechanical safety when the breech block carrier is lifting the bolt from LOCKED to UNLOCK from the locking shoulder. The breech block rotates about the top front surface as it's being lifted and the extractor just tweaks the spent case.

Peter

The cocking handle is on the left. I'll post some pictures of mine up when it arrives next week.

Unlike some of the other SLR's (IMBEL et al), these do not have hard extraction issues. They have been rebarreled and chambered in .308 and optimised to extract properly

[Peter Laidler]

Ah..........., I was looking at the advert shown on p3 and it stated straight pull R/H which I understood to be right hand! Breakdown in comms!

[Charlie303]

Hmmm...

OK, now it's my turn. What does R/H stand for then?

Charlie