L12A1 (SLR in .22LR)

[Ex Crab]

The extractor plate and some other parts are the same as the sub-cal kit for the L85.

Is it the light playing tricks or perhaps the painter playing a cruel game but........ those 25 pounders don't look like the same colours of the guns used in our Army. In Malaya the vehicles and guns were a mid bronze green instead of the usual deep bronze green but that green seems to be a bit, er............ What's the word I'm looking for.........?

Those guns were not in the main compound in JHQ when I didn't photograph them around 3 years ago. 'onest Guv.
Actually strictly for parade/looking pretty at formal occasions.

I posted the pictures because they are mil surplus and because somebody asked for pictures of guns. Simples.

PS. In reply to your question about the colour, could it be that whoever painted them is Irish?
Emerald Isle etc.