L42 Photos

[Roy W]

Browsing a Falklands War Picture group today I found these gems, all taken during the Falklands conflict. The narrative for the last one includes comments about members of the SBS in the photo. You will note there is an SLR with a scope, and also a civilian sporting rifle scoped up, rather than an L42. All photos are on Facebook Group Falklands War Pics and is an open group.

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[Lee Enfield]

You will note there is an SLR with a scope, and also a civilian sporting rifle scoped up, rather than an L42. All photos are on Facebook Group Falklands War Pics and is an open group.

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I would be willing to bet that that scoped L1A1 has an Argy FAL scope mounted on it.


There are numerous photos of Argy FALs scoped with the Ziess Zielvar scope and turret munts off their m1909 mauser snipers.

from the photos it appears that they simply welded the turret rings to FAL top covers.

The (original??) caption for this photo said:
Caption:

An Argentinian infantryman with a 7.62 mm FN FAL rifle mounted with a telescopic scope. The Argentinian army had no real sniper program, so was forced to improvise when the Falklands War broke out. The luckier ones were issued Remington 700s.
#FAL #Sniper #Argentinian Army #1980s
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