L1A1 Single Shot "UK" spec?? Any ideas?

[daryldiane]

Also hoping to get mine soon, deposit cheque has just been cashed, as Gabby said it would. Is it worth contacting them again? They said they would let me know when it's ready.
I have nice long wood butt, but have not managed to source a decent wood forend. Don't know if it would look good with just the butt. Also managed to get an Israeli Trilux and mount. Should be fun.
Is it worth getting an empty mag bolt hold open? It looks like you can modify the existing one quite easily.
Sorry about all the questions, getting quite excited about this rifle,I've always wanted one.

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[David TS]

Also hoping to get mine soon, deposit cheque has just been cashed, as Gabby said it would. Is it worth contacting them again? They said they would let me know when it's ready.
I have nice long wood butt, but have not managed to source a decent wood forend. Don't know if it would look good with just the butt. Also managed to get an Israeli Trilux and mount. Should be fun.
Is it worth getting an empty mag bolt hold open? It looks like you can modify the existing one quite easily.
Sorry about all the questions, getting quite excited about this rifle,I've always wanted one.

Ditto

I'm pretty much talking to Gavin every day, you'll know one way or t'other when it happens

[Nick S]

Are you collecting it this weekend at Newark?

[daryldiane]

Be here next week, have sent off the balance!
We'll have to have a shoot out at Bisley David

[David TS]

Be here next week, have sent off the balance!
We'll have to have a shoot out at Bisley David

Mine too. Shipped from Germany yesterday . It's been a long wait....

I am at Bisley on April 17

[Nick S]

Being advertised as well now:

http://www.guntrader.co.uk/GunsForSa...10325104849557

[daryldiane]

Yes everyone will have one now, will have to bring in a special comp for L1A1's
How are you all going to sight yours, I'm going to try my Trilux first.
Won't be at Bisley on 17th April, Dave, but will be there 10th and the 24th.

[David TS]

Yes everyone will have one now, will have to bring in a special comp for L1A1's
How are you all going to sight yours, I'm going to try my Trilux first.
Won't be at Bisley on 17th April, Dave, but will be there 10th and the 24th.

Hopefully they won't be quite as common as muck

Sighting a straight pull does bring fun all of its own

I want to try and stretch mine out to 600 yards so I have a Zeiss Conquest 6.5-20x50 to put on it.

I thought I would be smart with my Sig Sauer 522 .22LR semi and use an optical collimator, turned out the scope sat so high it was completely over the top of the collimator

If that won't work with the SLR, I will have to resort to the time honoured method of get it pointing roughly in the right direction, find the biggest zeroing target board I can, and use a spotter to check the strikes in the backstop. I've got 200 cheap PRVI to start off with....

[daryldiane]

Irons should be good to 600yrds. Going to try my usual handloads 43grn Vit 140 Lapua 155's, also Men nato and RG nato, see if I have extraction problems. I find privi useful but not brilliant, and the powder they use is very dirty and takes ages to clean out.

[David TS]

Irons should be good to 600yrds. Going to try my usual handloads 43grn Vit 140 Lapua 155's, also Men nato and RG nato, see if I have extraction problems. I find privi useful but not brilliant, and the powder they use is very dirty and takes ages to clean out.

Irons no good at 600 when your eyesight is as bad as mine

PRVI are cheap and cheerful, but they will do me to get set up then move to something a bit classier