Finally, the last piece for my Canadian FN collection

[mrclark303]

Tsk tsk Darren...you do not have to be rich to get all the toys you want. You just have to forego some of the lesser needs like food, heat, shelter, vehicles newer than 20 years, etc.

And if I may add, while convincing your better half that the rifle/scope etc is an 'investment' .... Well, it might be if you ever intend to sell it!

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[Lee Enfield]

Tsk tsk Darren...you do not have to be rich to get all the toys you want. You just have to forego some of the lesser needs like food, heat, shelter, vehicles newer than 20 years, etc.

I'm trying, I keep turning the furnace down by 1 degree and somehow it always goes up 2...

My friend Ted used to say: "you can own everything, just not all at the same time..."

[Seaforth72]

A friend at this same auction left his bidding card unattended on his chair for awhile. When he returned I told him that I had used it to buy everything that came up while he was gone, according to his instructions of course. He did not believe me for some reason.

I had thought of buying the very rare EX2 sight when I noticed it in the auction listing, as we have two FN CDN EX1 rifles in the 12 Service Battalion Museum here in Richmond (I am the Curator) but then I remembered from my visit to Stencollector’s home that you had at least one FN CDN EX rifle so I checked with you. You have an EX2 needing a sight so I backed off and offered to help you get it. You have helped me many times so it was a pleasure to be able to reciprocate.

I noticed someone off to my left who was also bidding but I just kept waving my bidding card, on your behalf, at the auctioneer until he stopped. :-) I only went after three things at the auction and got all three. Scottish basket hilt sword and scabbard Pattern 1828, 1917 German Maxim M.G. 08/15 (deactivated and missing some parts but I know it’s capture history) and the EX2 sight.

[browningautorifle]

1917 German Maxim M.G. 08/15 (deactivated and missing some parts but I know it’s capture history)

Maybe you could do a thread on that one? Love to see it...

[mrclark303]

Ditto Jim, love to see that one too!

[stencollector]

So this past weekend was the Calgary Gun Show, which is Canada's largest. This years pilgrimage to it was special in that Lee Enfield was bringing me the 4 parts needed to properly assemble the top cover to the optical sight. I got the emergency steel sight, the two mounting screws, and the front eccentric nut for adjusting windage.

All assembled and waiting to go back on the rifle.

I noted a CR1031 part number inside the lens of the optic, visible in the sight picture. I note that the Canadian EX1/EX2 manual shows this marking in the manual, while the British EX1/EX2 manual does not, despite the two manuals appearing to use much of the same drawings and material. I am unsure why, although I would guess that the same markings will be inside the British sights, since both countries seem to have acquired them from the same UK manufacturer.

[Lee Enfield]

The Unit Optic was manufactured by R&J Beck.

Happy to help ;-)

By the way I still need a C.No.67 scope...

[stencollector]

GEEZ Darren, you make me feel bad. I have been involved in both a Cno67 scope deal, and a SMG C1 deal in the recent past, and never forwarded either deal to you. You will certainly be first in line for whichever I find in the future.

[stencollector]

I meant to post this earlier, but here is a link to a recent ebay auction of one of the FN EX8 top cover and optic: British Experimental L1A1 Enfield Sniper Scope for EX8 Experimantal Rifle | eBay

Final sale price was $1641 USD, which works out to $2180 CDN. I likely would not have been in the bidding for that one.

I have saved a couple photos of this sight before it disappears from ebay. Note the CR number is on the tube, as opposed to inside the lens as on my Cdn example.

[browningautorifle]

That stuff was still in the weapon's techs drawers when I started out in Victoria...I remember lots of it. They couldn't use it for anything...it sat. Wish we'd had more foresight. But then we'd still have sold it along the way for a comparatively small price from what it's worth now or future.