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

[David TS]

A friend of mine has just got one and has been experiencing hard extraction using RG , but is sweet with hand loads.
I'm looking forward to a magazines worth next range day :-)

KG

RG is of course milsurp, and thus 7.62. The AC SLR's are chambered for .308, NOT for 7.62! .308 RUAG or RWS works fine, that's what Gavin has been feeding his, with no problems.

EDIT - cross posted with Gavin as he was was posting.......!

[Peter Laidler]

I'm not an ammo man by any means but as I understand it, .308" ammo is slightly longer than 7.62mm NATO. Is that correct after reading this thread. In my limited experience of such things, I allowed a deer shooter to zero his telescoped rifle on a range we were using. He zeroed using our NATO 7.62mm stuff and left happily, mistakenly (?) swopping his .308" stuff for some of our 7.62mm NATO. I thought we'd better use this commercial .308 stuff up to save any lqter questions and lo and behold, it was too long to fit into the rifle or even the Bren magazines................ so we just handed it back to the ammo store as found on site and unused.

How do you converted L1A1 rifle shooters manage with this longer .308 stuff?

[David TS]

[QUOTE=Peter Laidler;167626]I'm not an ammo man by any means but as I understand it, .308" ammo is slightly longer than 7.62mm NATO. Is that correct after reading this thread. In my limited experience of such things, I allowed a deer shooter to zero his telescoped rifle on a range we were using. He zeroed using our NATO 7.62mm stuff and left happily, mistakenly (?) swopping his .308" stuff for some of our 7.62mm NATO. I thought we'd better use this commercial .308 stuff up to save any lqter questions and lo and behold, it was too long to fit into the rifle or even the Bren magazines................ so we just handed it back to the ammo store as found on site and unused.

How do you converted L1A1 rifle shooters manage with this longer .308 stuff?[/QUOTE]

You chamber the rifle to .308

Here's a good explanation of the difference between military and civilian 7.62/.308

http://www.thegunzone.com/30cal.html#nb1

[daryldiane]

Will stick to hand loads to 308 spec and commercial 308 then.
Anyone had experiance with trilux /susat sight?

[David TS]

The consignment will be arriving at Anglo Custom Rifle tomorrow

[daryldiane]

Picking mine up on Sunday. when are you getting yours David?
Have you picked up any accessories? Managed to get hold of a bayonet, and an ex royal artillery friend of mine has given me a cleaning kit, broken case extractor and multi tool. Also a nice wood butt which I may put on at some point.
Will get loading tomorrow!

[David TS]

Ah, Gav must be at Bisley Sunday then

I have laid my hands on a complete new genuine surplus wood furniture set, sling, multi tool, cleaning kit, operating manual, EMERS, have located a bayonet.....how sad are we?!

Mine is being sent to my RFD, he should have it Tuesday , but I won't get the chance to pick it up until next Friday

[daryldiane]

Sounds nice David, can you tell me where you obtained the wood? I am looking for a hand guard, needs to be light beech to match my butt. do you have the tool to replace the butt?
I'm picking up at Gavins, only about 45min from me.
How are you going to break in the barrel? clean from the muzzle or break the rifle?
First new rifle I've had, being mostly into historic weapons, I have a Sako TRG but it was two years old when I bought it.

[Nick S]

Picked up mine this evening - very nice indeed! UB60 number - but certainly feels like a new rifle!

[OxfordAndy]

Been away for a couple of weeks - great news that these have started to ship. Looking forward to some pics of the delivered riflers and the range reports.....