My new Lithgow, New Zealand contract L1A1

[Peter Laidler]

When I was at RNZAF Whenuapai and Ohakea in 1969 they were fully armed with No4's! I'm not sure that you will be able to reactivate the tritium vials in the foresight as they are a one-way trip job. They were made by Saunders Roe on the Isle of Wight as I seem to remember. They were doing a few tritium thinggies for us including the GAP markers for the mortars. But it was a nice day out/jolly on the Army

That SUIT sight....... Shooter Usually In Trouble! Nice to see an L1A1 again. Makes you realise what a nice looking rifle it was. Just thinking to myself whether it had any vices. I don't think it did really. You can't blame the SUIT on the rifle can you?

Does anyone remember towards the end of its life, that the pointed foresight locking screw was in desperately short supply for some reason? Dues out* was about 10 years! There was a modification to modify the similar threaded and apparently plentiful SCREW, retaining locking latch lever to suit.