Ident: Time for a quiz :-) Body covers/mounts

[NZ L1A1 Collector]

How well do you know your body covers and or mounts for the FAL/L1A1?

Post your answers on this thread........ no prize except for the wealth of knowledge you will gain :)

The rules:
1. You must correctly Identify all 12 Body Covers/Mounts with their correct name! not just a generic title!

2. All covers shown are official military ones! I'm not trying to pull the wool over your eyes with some of them.

3. You must state the Country of Origin & the Covers correct designation.

4. Be warned that some covers aren’t what they seem at first, so look once, look twice then type your answer

5. please reframe from calling me names, unless it's in a personal email to me :biggrin: :wink:

6. My answers are final. No flaming will be entered into.

Enjoy this little puzzle :)

http://www.falfiles.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=823000

[NZ L1A1 Collector]

Finally Photopoint is up and running again so let the QUIZ begin http://www.fnfal.com/forums/biggrin.gif

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Kevin Adams
Rifle, 7.62 mm, L1A1 Collector & Researcher.
NEW ZEALAND

[tool]

I give up. I don't even know one.

[Bubba30]

Well...I sort of know what #6 is and I really want one.

[kcsturm]

1 - C2A1 topcover w/ rotary sight Canadian
6 - L2A1 topcover w/ tangent sight Australian

Thats all I can guess. http://www.fnfal.com/forums/confused.gif



[This message has been edited by kcsturm (edited February 28, 2001).]

[NZ L1A1 Collector]

kcsturm:
your've got them half right http://www.fnfal.com/forums/smile.gif


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Kevin Adams
Rifle, 7.62 mm, L1A1 Collector & Researcher.
NEW ZEALAND

[Rayman]

Well now Naz it seems you have stumped me again so how bout I add this little one in on the quiz just to find out what it came from. Thanks,Rick in Fl
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=82870&a=605569&p=42301550&Sequence=0&res=high
and
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=82870&a=605569&p=42301560&Sequence=0&res=high

[This message has been edited by Rayman (edited February 28, 2001).]

[JimR]

Man, I love this place, and it's people like Kevin that are the reason why. Kevin, if you ever make it back over here and wind up in Atlanta, dinner and drinks are on me.

That said, I have no *clue* what all this stuff is (specifically), other than #11 is a stripper clip top cover, likely Canadian (?), and no idea what the official name/designation would be.

Can't wait to see the results. This will be one of those pages I save off to the hard drive.

[Dan at VOW]

Oh and aren't you a dirty bugger! Here goes nothing.
1Early body cover, C2
2
3
4 This dust cover was used for, PVS 4 as well as reflex "doughnut" type sights.
5 T 48 style dustcover
6 L2A1 tangent mount dust cover
7
8 early Varo infra red and early style starlight dustcover.
9"wraparound" receiver mount for the ART II
10 Mount, telescope, C2
11 C1 type stripper dust cover
12 SUIT mount, L1A1 dust cover
Best I could do on short notice, back is killing me sp I'll stop here. Hope I got at least 1 right. Dan.

[NZ L1A1 Collector]

Dan at VOW:
Your not going to get all the answers out of Ian Skennerton's book http://www.fnfal.com/forums/wink.gif

but your've done well with some of them. http://www.fnfal.com/forums/smile.gif


Rayman;
I think that it might be for this:
Night Vision PAS 4 mount from Canada? There's some parts for it for sale on eBay and this pic:-

http://abacus.sj.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/1c406563e4e615490947c2c5ef/i-1.JPG

It sort of looks like what you have?

If it is ex Canadian..... do you want to sell it? http://www.fnfal.com/forums/wink.gif

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Kevin Adams
Rifle, 7.62 mm, L1A1 Collector & Researcher.
NEW ZEALAND

[Mr pogo]

Hey Kevin, wheres that mount you got from Ebay recently?

[NZ L1A1 Collector]

Mr pogo:
It's still in the states

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Kevin Adams
Rifle, 7.62 mm, L1A1 Collector & Researcher.
NEW ZEALAND

[Don Williams]

Rayman,
That mount in your pic is Israeli. I had one and finally peddled it to a bud with an Indian Fal. I had to mill it to get rings on it.

[NZ L1A1 Collector]

Don:
Thanx for the help in ID'ing that cover.... see I don't know everything there is to know about the FAL http://www.fnfal.com/forums/eek.gif

I don't want this quiz to fall by the way side so I'm going to help you guys out and give you the list of the mounts/covers you have guessed correctly:

1. Canadian: Early body cover, C2
2. Australian:
3. Canadian:
4. Country?: reflex "doughnut" mount
5. Country?: T 48 body cover also EX1/X8E1 Trop Trials rifles
6. Australian: L2A1 tangent sight body cover
7. British:
8. Country?: Varo infra red and early style starlight dustcover
9. Country: "wraparound" receiver mount for the ART II (that's what it say in the FAL rifle book) what was mine primarily used for?
10. Canadian: Mount, telescope, C2
11. Canadian: C1 cover
12. British: SUIT mount, what model of mount?

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Kevin Adams
Rifle, 7.62 mm, L1A1 Collector & Researcher.
NEW ZEALAND

[archy]

Originally posted by NZ L1A1 Collector:
Don:
Thanx for the help in ID'ing that cover.... see I don't know everything there is to know about the FAL http://www.fnfal.com/forums/eek.gif

I don't want this quiz to fall by the way side so I'm going to help you guys out and give you the list of the mounts/covers you have guessed correctly:


5. Country?: T 48 body cover also EX1/X8E1 Trop Trials rifles

8. Country?: Varo infra red and early style starlight dustcover

I believe it's Oz, or at least it's very similar to some of the SLRs with AN/PVS-1s that the ATF warrant officers ran around with around Phuoc Tuy. They were usually painted.

*****

12. British: SUIT mount, what model of mount?

Don't know, but it's identical [except for the dustcover, of course] for the SUIT setup that came on my L42A1 Enfield. I believe the origin of mine is from British troops serving in the Oman and/or Aden in the 1960s period.

[NZ L1A1 Collector]

Sorry about the delay I've been away with work http://www.fnfal.com/forums/frown.gif

Here's the list of answers for you, Thanx to all that partisapated.

1. Canadian: Early body cover, C2
2. Australian: L2A1 Body Cover, modified as per SAF Lithgow orders dated Feb 1980
3. Canadian: AN/PVS-502 Mount / Body Cover
4. British: reflex "doughnut" mount
5. BELGIUM, T48, EX1/EX2, X8E1/X8E2, ‘Canadian’ FAL Stripper clip loading Body Cover.
6. Australian: L2A1 tangent sight body cover
7. British: Mount L4A1 Individual Weapons Sight (IWS) Mount / Body Cover (UK version of the ‘Starlight’)
8. Australian: ADE AN/PVS-2 Mount / Body Cover
9. USA: "wraparound" receiver mount for the ART II (that's what it say in the FAL rifle book) what was mine primarily used for? USED FOR THE AN/PVS-4 NVS.
10. Canadian: Mount, telescope, C2
11. Canadian: C1 cover
12. British: SUIT mount, weapon sight Rifle, 7.62 mm, XL2E2

Well there's your answers I hope you enjoyied the quizz http://www.fnfal.com/forums/smile.gif

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Kevin Adams
Rifle, 7.62 mm, L1A1 Collector & Researcher.
NEW ZEALAND

[EMDII]

Kevin-

the demise of Photopoint makes this thread a bit vague.
:biggrin:

Could you re-link the photos?

[AZ_gun_nut]

Yes, please repost the pics. It will help us newbies from being a pain the arse.

[NZ L1A1 Collector]

The missing pic