FN Trials magazine marked X2 E1

[browningautorifle]

It's the same size as the FN bayonets.

[nzl1a1collector]

Any chance of a pic or a list of the markings that are on the bayonet

[browningautorifle]

If you go to BAyonet Collection Presentation you will see the same bayonet in pics. The only difference is there is NO date marked on the one I'm talking about. All other markings are the same. I don't have the blade so I can't post pics. This one is from oldsmithy but it's the same.

[stencollector]

Here are some shots of the magazine that started this thread. The camera accentuates the rust spots, which are barely visible to the eye. Also note the non-original pop rivet in the one photo, required to limit the magazine to 5 rounds, as per Cdn law.

[browningautorifle]

I see where you're coming from, it's an FAL mag or early type FN for sure. Almost all of those guns were welded solid for use in the parachute school in Edmonton. I know, I used them. Like I said, I've never seen that marking.

[Peter Laidler]

On the subject of restricted magazines, there was an instruction issued regarding .303" and 7.62mm Bren magazines for Cadet Forces use in the 80's where ' a quantity' of magazines could be adapted locally by units having the facilities (or backloaded to Field workshops that did have the facility) where a slit could be cut in the rear spine, part way down and a small steel plate inserted across the slit to prevent the platform depressing past the 10 round position. Thereby restricting the magazine capacity to 10 rounds. The magazine was stencilled with the large figure '10' in white paint to reflect this. The mags could be stripped for cleaning in the usual way. I found a couple of the .303" mags at my sons school Cadet Corps but never saw a 7.62mm version and wondered how it would work! Maybe the rivet idea, with a steel rivet and spot of braze was the answer.

I know that they had .303" and 7.62mm Brens. Strangely, I have never seen the EMER miscellaneous instruction either but it must have been official or at least had some sort of official sanction because their parent workshop certainly did a hundred or so for all of the small units and training teams under their wing

[browningautorifle]

Peter, the mag in picture has been done for the current use as per Canadian mag capacity laws. It's the way we found that would not be questioned by law enforcment. Otherwise, you would have to weld the follower so it can't move. The mags you talk about I may have seen, and they had been shortened to half the size of the standard mag. I was told they had been made for grenade launching purposes. But the people who told me that wouldn't know for sure. I didn't see many of them in any case.

[Albayo]

I was digging through some items I received in a deal and found a Canadian FN CDN EX1 mag with a serial number 0B0230 and a white 1" band around it, a wood butt stock stamped with 0B0485, the third item was the pistol grip for the EX1. I found the information in the Collector Grade Publications, the three volume book, in the first section North American FAL's.
The Canadian serial numbers are found on page 149, and pictures are on page 60. Good examples for the FN collectors. The EX1's were metric FAL's, not inch so the mag won't fit an
L1A1 or C1. Here are some pictures of the items.

[nzl1a1collector]

I was digging through some items I received in a deal and found a Canadian FN CDN EX1 mag with a serial number 0B0230 and a white 1" band around it, a wood butt stock stamped with 0B0485, the third item was the pistol grip for the EX1. I found the information in the Collector Grade Publications, the three volume book, in the first section North American FAL's.
The Canadian serial numbers are found on page 149, and pictures are on page 60. Good examples for the FN collectors. The EX1's were metric FAL's, not inch so the mag won't fit an
L1A1 or C1. Here are some pictures of the items.


http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...o/PC110765.jpg

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...o/PC110764.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...o/PC110769.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...o/PC110774.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...o/PC110772.jpg

Those are some very nice EX parts and EX Magazine

[skiprat]

oh yes very nice ... just what I need to finish (ish) my deactivated :thdown X8E1.....
want to tade ???????