Falkland Island L1A1's

[mrclark303]

That sounds like a dream come true Brian, happy days...

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[mrclark303]

Oh I feel assured Geoff, but as a Tax payer, it's only right that I should assist the tiresome chore of brass conversion mate...

[Gil Boyd]

John,
Looking out for that De Lorean with all the kit in it................that'll get me back in time accurately!!

[Ex Crab]

How times have changed!
Thumbing through some old copies of the UK's Guns Review Magazine and came across this advert placed by the Falkland Islands Government in 1993
I seem to remember reading a post somewhere that this was the source for the Anglo Custom (via Luxdeftec) Straight Pull conversions?

LDT also sold a number of them on the German market. I have one.

[waco16]

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LDT also sold a number of them on the German market. I have one.

Here's my 1961 BSA
Originally came from LDT (via Anglo Customs) in Plastic furniture, now dressed in first pattern British wood
Great fun to shoot!

[Ex Crab]

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Here's my 1961 BSA
Originally came from LDT (via Anglo Customs) in Plastic furniture, now dressed in first pattern British wood
Great fun to shoot!

Which ammo does it prefer and what sort of grouping do you get?

[waco16]

Which ammo does it prefer and what sort of grouping do you get?

I use handloads - RWS .308 cases (F/L sized) SMK 155 palma match bullets 43 grains N140 loaded to 2.775"
I've got through over 100 rounds in one session with not a hard extraction in sight

Its certainly not a 'target' load, but it consistently hits a figure 11 target at 600 yds

[Brian Dick]

Gil, They used to joke about following the white lines to your DeLorean!

[mrclark303]

Nice looking SP example. I can feel we're going into the great SP extraction debate again!

GGG is your one stop shop for factory loaded SP L1's, it works and surprisingly well.

Others experience may vary of course!

[Gil Boyd]

Brian yes spot on with that observation.

John, Don't start me off. I regret selling mine last year, it was a real pain in competitions. Straight pulling anything, when the barrel gets hot you are going to get stoppages, on extraction, which was the issue with mine even on GGG, which was supposed to be the solution.
Yes it was great for the first 7 rounds, but therafter, fitted with the original cocking handle, (not the big landrover starting handle version) the only solution was to stand it on its butt and really force the cocking handle backwards as hard as you could, with both hands or a rubber mallet!!

I know there will be those on here who have had no problems at all on a 20 round mag, but it is an issue on the size of the neck and how that was reamed out by the "convertor" IMHO.