P-H M85 Cleaning Kit

[Peter Laidler]

i'm not sure that ACPO had any imput with the little L98 rifle although I can't say for sure of course. After all, they already had Brens in .303" and 7.62mm plus the LSW. The single shot thing and configuration was always a strange notion too! Once the cranked handle slide rail had been modified to prevent it working loose and the........ anyway. It seems, from talk back that the Cadet Forces themselves sort of took it upon themselves to modify the dopey cranked lever thing (read The Last Lee Enfield by Steve Raw) and rifles modified by them to eliminate this dire notion were sanctioned in a demi-official way. I certainly did it to my own L98 and the same mysteriously appeared on my sons school CCF L98's together with SUSATS.

Now they've got what they should have had at the start. An A2 version, self loading, semi auto only. That project was my last at Warminster. If it'd gone fully my way, it would have retained the Auto and Repetition change lever* so that the rifle drills would be the same for the LSW AND rifle. That having been said, and I only fired a new L98A2 a few times, they seem to be popular and certainly trouble free
* Regardless of the position of the change lever, it would ONLY fire in the R mode but it means that you are required to physically check it - as you do with the LSW and service L85.

But privately owned L98's still attract attention when used. Alas, you can't say that about the L81.

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