Brits and Aussies! (3 of each)

[mrclark303]

Hi Peter, very true, on the face of it at least, but you know how it works from a "legal" perspective, if it gets proof stamped, its pressure baring!

[browningautorifle]

I think he might be quite right Peter, from the perspective of "Those people"... I'll see if I can find a rear sight of the folding disc type for sale anywhere...and maybe wood...and let you know.

[Brian Dick]

I wish it was 20 years ago. I had everything you're seeking back then. I have a couple of spare butts in different lengths and maybe some handguards. I've some sight parts and other small parts for the C1 and C2 but nothing complete anymore.

[Brian Dick]

FYI: I think the Entreprise receivers were built using the Australian pattern. The lightening cut is present under the carry handle on the right hand side. They had ups and downs with quality control over the years but I was lucky that the receiver I got was very early and has never given me any problems. I Parkerized it to match and the finish matched the CAL original finish present on the TMH and other parts exactly. Some would mill off the left side markings and engrave the correct ones which I never bothered to do. The right side manufacturer and serial number markings can't be altered anyhow so it is what it is. I used all early milled parts like the magazine catch and body lock lever. I have the later fabricated parts but just thought the milled ones to be better looking.

I remember being at CS Military in Canada in the 90's and they had a rack full of the late issue OPP rifles available. All 8L series rifles in new condition. Beautiful they were. I'd guess most of them have been deactivated by now since they are classed as prohibs in Canada. I'm just happy to have my home built example that shoots extremely well. I have a C1 sniper scope for it too.

[browningautorifle]

I'd guess most of them have been deactivated by now since they are classed as prohibs in Canada.

You'd probably find the vast majority are still in private hands, grandfathered to those people. They just can't leave the house to shoot...some HAVE been done in though, nature of the beast.

[enbloc8]

Many thanks for the offer of help, I would be very interested in C1 furniture, late sling and back sight, but a bolt carrier is just too difficult to send, with the restrictions on sending pressure bearing components and magazines.

The cost gets out of hand with the paperwork involved unfortunately mate.

If it's any help, according to my builder a metric carrier is the exact same thing as a Canadian carrier, save for markings and finish. Perhaps you could find one of those locally?

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Even the C1s had cuts in the receiver at first on each side of the charger guide. When loading 5 rds from the top your thumb would go down into these. Later it was deleted.

Wow, never heard that before. Do you know of any pictures of one without the receiver thumb cuts?

Anything that makes recreating the Holy Grail of inch rifles easier is a good thing in my book!

[Peter Laidler]

When it comes to the legal niceties - and I know we're deviating from the subject here - but the fact that a part is proofed will never override the simple FACT in law that it is not a load or pressure bearing part. It is called an 'irrefutable point of law' that can be proven. Like , say, christmas day falls on 25th December or the top traffic light colour is red. The rifle will fire and stay locked without the carrier. Try it with some blanks + BFA and see.......... If it were so, then a Bren piston post would be proofed. I appreciate that no one is game to take 'them' on in order to prove the point but.........

In fact a flash eliminator is more pressure bearing than the BBCarrier. That's why they split! I'd say that Christmas day is more pressure bearing too. Just joking!

[mrclark303]

Yep, stupid isn't it, when my Lithgow L1A1 came back from from proof in January, they stamped just about everything ... including the TMH! And TWO stamps on the flash eliminator ... go figure!

Has anyone, I wonder, been mad enough to fire a live round without the carrier present?!?

[browningautorifle]

Do you know of any pictures of one without the receiver thumb cuts?

I'll look around. Seems to me it was a 2L series I had in hand when I saw that. Even at 17 or 18 yrs, I knew I was witnessing something different.

[Peter Laidler]

Yes, we fired one remotely on the ** test range to show the action of something else. That's why I suggested a blank and a BFA. No gas on yours but it would illustrate the point

** forget the name now!