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

[David TS]

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.

I got the wood from a chap in Germany. He did have a second set several weeks back, but I think he will only sell the complete set - buttstock, hand guards, pistol grip and trigger guard. I paid EUR 199.50 plus EUR 18 carriage. Let me know if you are interested and i'll PM you the details.

I haven't thought about cleaning mine yet! I'll worry about sighting it in and trying to shoot straight first.......

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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.....

Mine will be going retro - wood furniture. I'll post some before and after pics when I pick it up and do the swopover

First outing is on April 16 at Thetford with it

Amazingly there is someone else having theirs sent to my RFD - Simpsons of Newmarket - same day as mine. Is that anyone on here?

[Nick S]

Poor picture - I'll get some better ones later!



UB60 prefix. Matching numbers on bolt carrier and both receivers. (Bolt has a matching number as well, but I think that was added when they were converted as it's in a dot-matrix font.) Mixture of 60 and 58 parts that I could easily see.

[daryldiane]

Looks great Nick, can't wait till tomorrow. Whats the pull (trigger to butt length) wondering if I should get a long butt plate, Gabby says they have them in stock. Also wonder how they've done the dummy gas adjuster, can you remove it like an original?
I'll see if I can pick up some handguards here, David, I know an army armourer who says he thinks they still have some knocking about at his base. He says that when they changed over to plastic furniture they used most of the old wood for the fire!

[David TS]

There are four butt plates for Maranyl butts - short, normal, long and extra long.

There are also three different screw lengths - long and XL share the same screw, normal and short are different.

If you can't ID yours, I have the part numbers, let me know

[David TS]

Poor picture - I'll get some better ones later!

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo.../04/l1a1-1.jpg

UB60 prefix. Matching numbers on bolt carrier and both receivers. (Bolt has a matching number as well, but I think that was added when they were converted as it's in a dot-matrix font.) Mixture of 60 and 58 parts that I could easily see.

Very nice

I can't wait until I pick mine up on Friday

[OxfordAndy]

Definitely agree with DavidTS about the wood furniture........

It would be great to see some close-ups of the dummy gas block and have a report on the quality of it's engineering (i.e. how closely it resembles the original in fit/finish/assembly).

Also...does anybody know if the railed top cover in the eearlier photo is an original item or a new part?

[nzl1a1collector]

does anybody know if the railed top cover in the eearlier photo is an original item or a new part?

Definitely NOT original, these railed covers are made by a number of American companies for the civilian/LEO market

[David TS]

Definitely NOT original, these railed covers are made by a number of American companies for the civilian/LEO market

Gavin's rifles come with a plain original top cover, with the picatinny rail cover as an option

[Charlie303]

Collected my L1A1 from Gavin and Gabby yesterday. Looks fine, will post some pics incl gas block later. Plan is to shoot it for the first time at Langport next Saturday.

Never having had a brand new rifle before, I asked Gavin about 'running in' the barrel. He didn't consider that it was absolutely necessary.

If one did 'run it in' though, what is the procedure?

Thanks,

Charlie

[David TS]

Collected my L1A1 from Gavin and Gabby yesterday. Looks fine, will post some pics incl gas block later. Plan is to shoot it for the first time at Langport next Saturday.

Never having had a brand new rifle before, I asked Gavin about 'running in' the barrel. He didn't consider that it was absolutely necessary.

If one did 'run it in' though, what is the procedure?

Thanks,

Charlie

Gavin's right. The shoot one, clean one thing is crap