L14A1 Carl Gustav 84mm Anti Tank

[Gil Boyd]

Roy,
Thanks for that. Yes I have thanks. My brother in law ex boss of 820Sqn Culdrose uses Helston Guns a lot and knows the boss well.
He laid down an offer I gave him for the right hand newer version with its bracket but he declined doing a swap, so I bought a telescope off FleaBay for £40 which was brilliant. Someone was using it on an air rifle!!! He also gave me half of the bracket to hold it onto the tube.
I am currently trying to 3 D Model some bits as one must not forget my intention is to only build two highly reflective models so they can pass close examination.
I can't remember ANY of our Regiments 84mm in gloss green.............they were all IR painted.
Mind you, the failing with that early 70's mix was if you didn't stir the IR paint it came out Gloss, could tht account for why there seem to be those out there like 303 Collectors image that are gloss. Maybe we dulled them down for our BAOR roll in PARA Reg?
Anybody out there know the real answer to that qaundry ?? Also noticed that 303 Collectors bracket is different again to the ones shown on the Helston Guns site so there must have been a few variants to hold the scope onto the tube!!

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[Roy W]

Gil
The few we had (bearing in mind we were an Engineer Squadron, so most of our weapons spent the exercise in a black bin bag, and the rest were used once a year) were like new and were, from memory, gloss green. They certainly weren't IR painted. I only ever saw them leave the armoury once, which was for a JNCO Cadre training practice session.

They were never fired. Engr Sqns in Germany occasionally got the odd round to fire, but giving Engrs guns was like driving a Ferrari in a car park. Well intentioned, but never really achieved any potential!

[Gil Boyd]

Roy,
that did make me laugh and spill my G&T. Yes can relate to that, I think I only ever fired it 3 times. The rounds were extortionate and clearly why we never got to fire many in training. Mind you that training paid off later. 2 PARA were the only unit to ever fire a Charlie G in Belfast during the troubles at a hijacked car full of explosives near New Lodge flats off the North Antrim road in 1972, the ATO officer who is very well known and holds a GM Mike C.......decided it was the best action to take at the time.