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Posted: 10/31/2013 12:26:00 AM EDT
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Just completed my L1A1 build on a Coonan inch cut receiver.
I had been sitting on a nearly mint Enfield kit for nearly two years waiting for the Coonan group buy on the Falfiles to pan out. Finally got the rifle timed, head-spaced, assembled and refinished in Cerakote, member "myfakename" helped a tiny, tiny bit 
The results are pretty damn nice. this is my second L1A1 and I'm definitely a sucker for the British rifles. I'm going to challenge my building assistant to reenact the Falklands War. He has an Argie, and me two SLR's. May the best man win! ETA, Thunbprint in photo four isn't a defect in the finish but just an oily fingerprint. everything is super tight from the coating and is slathered in oil as a result. Beater eBay stock set will be replaced soon with an Ironwood Design set. 
 
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Congrats on bringing another piece of history back to life !!
Because when you really think about that is what we are doing. She looks great. I got my first L1A1 early this year and I love it. It's an Enfield British kit also. When you get the wood furniture on her please post a pic. I've kicked around the idea of installing some new wood on mine also. I have the synthetic furniture on mine as well. |
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Mines functions at 2 sadly.....My Aussie Lithgow L1A1 functions at 5 and the StG58 on a DSA receiver type 1 functions fine at 6.
It is jamming on the left side due to the feedramp and it jumps a notch from the gap going from an inch magazine but it functions fine on a metric magazine. One must remember that the receiver started life as a type 3 metric so they are going from there. The feedramp angle is almost there but wrong. My builder said he can polish it up some more to make it better but I am debating sending it to Coonan and see if they can do something about it. |
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Mines functions at 2 sadly.....My Aussie Lithgow L1A1 functions at 5 and the StG58 on a DSA receiver type 1 functions fine at 6. It is jamming on the left side due to the feedramp and it jumps a notch from the gap going from an inch magazine but it functions fine on a metric magazine. One must remember that the receiver started life as a type 3 metric so they are going from there. The feedramp angle is almost there but wrong. My builder said he can polish it up some more to make it better but I am debating sending it to Coonan and see if they can do something about it. I finally got mine to the range today and had the exact same malfunction. The rifle ran like a cat on fire with metric mags but had a 25% FTF rate with inch mags. WTF is up with that?? |
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It is because it was made from a Type 3 metric receiver.
Strangely, I fired mines again today and it went bag everytime just fine now with two mags of surplus LC 147gr. I went from number 2 to number 4 and its shooting brass 21 feet away so I have to adjust and test again tomorrow maybe. But I polished the feedramps a bit and I may polish it some more. Is yours hitting on the left side feedramp? Moses FAL mag seems to have cured alot of peoples coonan feed issue. |
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