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    Desperately Seeking IWS mount for L42A1 (still looking)

    Looking for IWS mount to complete my L42A1 CES. Will have a great home in humidity control vault and will only be displayed at the finest shows. My lonely L42A1 longs for completion and only a B1/1005-99-964-3254 Mount, Image Intensified Sight, L5A1 can help. Past background is not important. Please email rodsuebo@aol.com Thanks Rod in NC
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    Hold your horses Air Can and all the others looking for these mounts. Exact repros are being finished as we speak by an enterprising lad in Canadaicon

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    Hold your horses Air Can and all the others looking for these mounts. Exact repros are being finished as we speak by an enterprising lad in Canadaicon
    I found mine some years ago, quite pricey. Now, all I want is the IWS scope. Also quite pricey.

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    Talking of IIW (or IWS) night sights, has anyone actually GOT one of them?

    Remember that they are also known commercially as the RANK-PULLIN SS-20 night vision device. So bear this in view if you are looking.

    Additionally, remember that some were sold without the glass etched reticle plate so that they could be used as observation devices but not as actual rifle sights. This was because some countries didn't want the populace to have such things. The actual casing was the same, but with the holes for the zeroing adjusters blanked off with screw-in inserts. If you do see one, grab hold of it even if it hasn't got the reticle and zeroing adjusters because replica/look-a-like adjusters are simple to make from stock hex. bar. I'll lend you an example if you find one........ In fact, it'd be simplicity itself to make originals. I don't know hoe you'd go about the reticle plate but I bet that there is someone on the forum who could make them!

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    Not sure, but I may have one. Looks a lot like an U.S. A/N PVS-1 but not quite. Not a ID on it at all! Anyone with a good picture of an IWS? All I've seen have been in Jane's Infantry Weapons.

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    Put a pic on here and I'll tell you if you have. No pic, no tell!

    There are a few pics of a UKicon MoD IIW sight on this forum somewhere

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    Quote Originally Posted by jmoore View Post
    Not sure, but I may have one. Looks a lot like an U.S. A/N PVS-1 but not quite. Not a ID on it at all! Anyone with a good picture of an IWS? All I've seen have been in Jane's Infantry Weapons.
    Hows this ?


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    Well, if thats an IIW, thats not what I have either. I don't have a digital camera (or even a computer at the house) so pics are a bit of a problem w/o a friend's assist. Last time we tried to post pics he didn't have authorization or some such from the site.

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    Just use the comuter that you are putting this note ON with to look at the pictures I put on several months ago. THAT is a UKicon MoD IIW sight.

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    Top Australianicon L1A1 fitted with the PVS-2
    Bottom Britishicon BSA L1A1 fitted with the IWS





    L1A1 fitted with L7 GPMG Bipod and IWS





    Top American AN/PVS-2
    Bottom American AN/PVS-4

    Last edited by nzl1a1collector; 06-15-2009 at 06:19 AM.

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