L1A1 Cycle Of Operations

[@russbetts1467]

I was shown this film in 1969, shortly after I joined the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Nice to see it again. You don't hear voices like that these days, on modern instruction films. Very clear and precise. Shame the final explanation of the complete cycle was cut short by a couple of minutes, but as it's a very old film, it's probably been deleted, because it was too degraded.

[@MarvelousSeven]

Love the internet.

[@jimmyjohnson7027]

RRF was my lot. I'm from Manchester, so of course they sent me to the Geordie First Battalion.

[@chrisbrent7487]

We had wooden furniture here in Australia until the end though we ditched the long cooling slot flat sided hand guard for a round profile with drilled circular holes late in the Vietnam war. Load, action, instant, unload.

[@MrCalman65]

We watched this as recruits in Australia at Kapooka. Took me a while to get my head around unlocking.

[@martinmckowen1588]

This brings back memories. One of my jobs was to write the script for the Australian army to replace the English accent. This was in 1986 about the same time I was developing degrees of weapon readiness for the Steyr.

[@66kbm]

Shared this with a few old British Army Groups. Its a great video.

[@4evaavfc]

This is a very good video. The LIAI was a great battle rifle.

[@kyoujinko]

The best weapon ever in the British army.

[@MortonBartlett-yy3cn]

Worked well for us in NZ too.carried one mid 70's to early 80's, also the heavy barrel LMG version

[@Labate76]

I served in the Brazilian Army in 1994 and I used the Fal rifle! It's a wonderful Rifle ! The difference to the SLR is that the FAL can fire shots in full auto and semi mode!

[@robshirewood5060]

i had the pleasure of firing two variants 1) with wooden furniture and cocking handle as in this film and 2) a model with plastic furniture and a fixed rounded cocking handle, on private ranges, about 20 years ago, nice weapons. I got extra lucky in using one with a Trilux scope, and a Singlepoint red dot sight which the owners swapped over to, in order to show me what they used in Northern Ireland, quite a contrast between the two. I was also shown how the rifle could be still operated as a bolt action rifle if the return spring in the gas tube had been lost (as was apparently a common accident with new recruits) when stripping them for the first time, which i nearly did after being shown how to strip it, to the mirth of the owners. Lesson well learned. It was interesting to find out that the small pocket on the side of the 1958 pattern right ammo pouch was for a device to fire Energa grenades, with adjustment of the gas plug to suit. I was issued 1958 webbing as a cadet , damned heavy stuff which i soon changed over for lighter kit. Fascinating to connect with history as my family had all been Army since before ww1. A great day shooting with L1A1, Lee Enfield No4, then L42 sniper version, a Parker Hale version, and finishing off with the L1A1 with 30 round L4A4 Bren magazine. Great day and i learned so much about how versatile and loved the L1A1 was.

[@liverpoolscottish6430]

Awesome piece of kit. Hewn from granite. Shoulder launched light arty for the infantry man!

[@wills681]

I enjoyed this v.much. Clearly it is a training film for armourers or PW instructors rather than recruits. The audio might also have a function as an aid for those who have insomnia. :) I found it most relaxing.

[@lesrush6298]

Loved the SLR was a fantastic weapon

[@danielmarshall4587]

THANK YOU for posting this film.

[@ichimonjiguy]

The L1A1 lives on in the parts of the free world.

[@TheAngmarwitch]

Excellent video. Was lucky enough to use the SLR (wooden furniture on mine) back in the early 1990's as a TA infantryman in 3 Cheshire. The sound of it firing in the video brings back many fond memories of this awesome rifle - I was also a gunner so used the GPMG (unfortunately had to carry the heavy lump as well!)

[@sergioarodrigues]

By far the most reliable battle rifle!

[@levitated-pit]

nice find! brings back memories

[@blitz21]

The most important thing I remember through weapon drills is getting shouted at, a lot. Great weapon in the good old days.

[@ItsRael108]

Very interesting, reminds me of my army cadet days/years ..good times 🌎

[@alanmerzcharles]

Best rifle ever

[@anthonyburke5656]

Anyone who consistently used a SLR will have at least one scar on the first joint of their left index finger, from cocking the weapon and the joint running along the cocking lever channel

[@bradleydavies4781]

That’s just a love bite dude .

[@bhoward9378]

Very informative. Subscribed.

[@johnrobertson4384]

Brilliant weapon

[@mothmagic1]

That was the most user friendly furniture on the fore end, even the later rounded wood fore end was less comfortable in the hand. The plastic furniture was even worse and actually added a few ounces to the over all weight.

[@admiralrover74]

Do you have Footage of British Soldiers training with Lee Enfield rifles?

[@admiralrover74]

@Will Rose Is there a Website for it?

[@admiralrover74]

@Will Rose Much Obliged, Sir, Really appreciate it....

[@admiralrover74]

@Will Rose Big Thanks Sir, Really Appreciate it.

[@garychynne1377]

great

[@paraguard60]

I had to smile as Rupert said "Press the trigger......." And not "Squeeze" the trigger.

[@boogaloofever]

Load before lock. Why is there that "Lock and Load" trope in movies etc?

[@ms.annthrope415]

We heard that all the time in the US army as i was going through officers training. We were told to "lock and load 1 20 round magazine into your rifle." The LOCK is to insert the magazine until it locks into the magazine well. Then pull the charging handle to LOAD a round into thr chamber. Thr lock and load is not referring to the firing sequence as mentioned here.

[@boogaloofever]

@@ms.annthrope415 many thanks! Been bugging me for years haha

[@grahamshortt2525]

As far as I know, it's from the Garand clip loading drill . " lock open ,load "

[@aliman3229]

This is firearm ASMR. 👍🏻

[@davidravenscroft9235]

The Finest Rifle Ever To Serve In The British Army

[@mrjockt]

It was amazing how much of a step backwards the British Army took in the late eighties.

[@ste887]

@@mrjockt Well have always said the British army dropping the SLR for the L85 is like dating a 10 but then going and marrying a 3 just cos they're younger

[@mrjockt]

@Will Rose During the NATO Standardisation talks in the early fifties the agreement reached over small arms ammunition was that NATO would adopt the U.S. proposed 7.62x51mm round on the understanding that the U.S. would adopt the T48, U.S. built FAL, they never did, they also agreed to adopt 9mm as the standard pistol/SMG round, again the U.S. basically ignored this. Britain has attempted to adopt a smaller round three times in the last hundred years, .276 Enfield in 1913, 7mm Short in the early fifties and 4.85mm in the mid seventies, there wasn’t anything wrong with the 5.56mm round adopted in the eighties it was the rifle chosen that was the problem, the original L85 had far too many problems that were effectively ignored or brushed over in the rush to get a new British designed rifle into the hands of the British army.

[@mrjockt]

@Will Rose What makes the issues with the L85 even more annoying for me was the fact that I was one of several R.A.F. personnel who got to fire one of the early SA-80’s back in 1983, and every one of us thought this was a brilliant rifle, short, handy and reasonably well balanced for carrying around, it’s a pity we weren’t aware of the issues the rifle was having in the background, I had left the service before the L85 entered general service but saw how much it was disliked during the first Gulf War, it took a long time and a lot more money to finally turn it into the sort of rifle it should have been from the start.

[@sumeetalam22]

In india fal rifle is still used by some law enforcement

[@markfryer9880]

Did we get shown this film in the Australian Army Reserves in the late 80s or something different? It does seem rather familiar and is a very detailed film and given how tight arsed the Aussie Army are I would say that they just showed us the film as is.

[@jeffbarr6816]

Mark - I do not recall seeing this film at all. All my training on the SLR was via formal weapons lessons and demonstrations of the cycle of operation using a cutaway rifle.

[@mrmadunit3923]

In 1987 we were shown this same vhs recording lol on a big crt telly we also had practical hands on of Corse. having fired a few hunting rifles i was blown away with this rifle I was with M.O.N.U.R who were you with Mr Fryer

[@randywatson8347]

Recoil must be awfull. Approx 3 cm the muzzle has shifted off target.

[@samrajsingh6522]

So many exercise field rabos spotted.

[@stephensmith4480]

The Falls Road Equaliser.

[@paulbalogh4582]

I thought this was going to be a Python short!

[@andreedowns4561]

ITS A GAS ...MAN !!!

[@hamrmark]

I'm surprised he didn't lose his right eye! Great rifle though!

[@glenbjack]

Ahhhhhhhh🥰🥰🥰🥰😍

[@stephenrowlands843]

Strange thing while watching this - I can smell the gun oil!

[@wastenmany]

Match stick anyone

[@rule3036]

Stock too short for this bloke....eye too close to sight.....ouch!

[@MC14may]

A decent rifle of its time....all the dinosaurs swear by it yet most never used it in Combat 😂😂😂