NZ contact L2A1

[enbloc8]

<snip> Also an earlier one could be converted after one protector was broken off...

THANK YOU! I'd been wondering about that...looks like my C1A1 repro is authentic after all!

[browningautorifle]

I saw a few through time that had done. Not common but at least I did see them firsthand. At a distance of course we thought them to be an 8L.

[Brian Dick]

Enbloc, if the late Pat Jones built your C1A1 repro, it'll be as authentic as it gets. He was a friend and associate. He got a handful of the stamped front sight guards from me along with quite a few other C1/C1A1 parts back when I had the stuff in quantity. I was going to have him engrave my Entreprise Arms receiver on the left side with C1A1 markings but it never happened. Brian

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I remember seeing racks full of 8L OPP rifles at CS Military and wishing I could bring some back with me. I'd guess many of them wound up as deacts.

[can14&]

I have a pair of consecutive numbered OPP s Lever Arms brought in a lot of the L2A1s into Canada. Some
had the compensators on them. Many were changed out to the L1A1 flash hiders. The compensator was
supposed to keep the gun from twisting in FA was the story. I have some somewhere. All of these guns
were mint. The kit and 30 round magazines were all new.

[enbloc8]

Enbloc, if the late Pat Jones built your C1A1 repro, it'll be as authentic as it gets. He was a friend and associate. He got a handful of the stamped front sight guards from me along with quite a few other C1/C1A1 parts back when I had the stuff in quantity. I was going to have him engrave my Entreprise Arms receiver on the left side with C1A1 markings but it never happened. Brian

Mine was built by RDO Specialties. The owner was a good friend of Pat Jones...ironically, I was the one that broke the news to him of Pat's passing. It came with reproduction sight ears and top cover; I replaced them with real ones when I got a set out of Canada.

Some time ago I was told that one of the big dealers in Canada was still sitting on a bunch of ex-OPP C1A1s, that they had gotten in from Britain right before they became "prohibited" items.

[mrclark303]

From everything I have heard about Pat I would love to have met him. At least he has left a superb body of work behind him.

A friend in the States has one of Pats builds, it's his favourite rifle, lovely work.

[Brian Dick]

Yeah, I miss seeing Pat at Knob Creek.