I never used the A1, but I did use the A2 for 10 years and although I never liked the bull pup design, it was actually a really reliable rifle in the desert, arctic and jungle. It's heavy too, so when you're out of rounds you can club your enemies to death with it
I remember the only time I got to do full auto was when I was in Bosnia . I was part of the ammo section and we had so much stuff to get rid off so the let us fire loads of it off . With my trusty L85A1 I demonstrated why I wasn't a crack shot because i think i missed everything
Appreciate everyone else's experience with the A1 but I only found jams with 1) bent, or even imperceptibly bent tin mags, 2) dirty gas parts, 3) knackered communal armoury weapons (rather than pers issue wpn) Just to add to comments, the Army did introduce some odd drills to offset design flaws, including the "forward assist." Also, you must engage the "holding open catch" in order to hold the "working parts" (bolt carrier assembly etc) to the rear. This was the drill I was taught on A1 and A2, although I didn't use the A3 before I retired. My son tells me the A3 is a much more accurate weapon, but like most infanteers, often ruined by attaching too much **** to it.
Had Argentina Not invaded, they Would be Las Islas Malvinas now, we had a similar agreement with Argentina over the Falklands as we did with China over Hong Kong. And it was due to expire around the same time
@@paulcollyer801 Yeah but that's what happens when you have a dictatorship on the brink if collapse, at least the British helped indirectly in the process of Argentina going back to democracy
@@paulcollyer801 thats the thing I find odd though, Argentina were never historical owners of the islands, nor would it be of any benefit to them, The only people I feel that have a legitimate claim over the islands other than us are the Spanish, French and *maybe* the US. but as it turns out, 98% of the population weren't too happy with the Argentinians anyway so they'll likely never get the islands.
With the shitty bent RG mags i got a stoppage at least once a mag with blanks and about once every two mags with ball. The single best improvement was the sturdy HK mags.
Same here, I used the A1 alot and tbh i had barely any stoppages on the ranges or Ops, aslong as it was maintained well, oiled etc, i found it to be fine.
im the same i used it during training and the was issued the LSW in the Army and as long as you looked after it like you should with any weapon it was fine never had any stoppages due to the rifle but did have a couple due to ammunition issues just overly tough primers. I love the L85 family
There is a reason for that. the L85s are 10.98lbs empty, 12lbs with a loaded mag. The majority of rifles in that caliber or even larger don't weigh that much. I feel sorry for the brits who have to haul that thing around as it reduces the amount of stuff they can carry.
@@mrcaboosevg6089 you are right actually, i don't know what i've seen in there previously xD. I guess i was watching this on my phone and on small screen it looked different or something. Deleting my comment, thanks for correction.
Seeing all the hate against the A1....i truly never had many problems with it...fired 1000s of rounds through it and the A2...used it in NI, Bosnia, Kosovo and the sandy countries.
People think the A1s struggled for all of its usage but later on a lot of the kink were ironed out, it was only when in the sandy environments did it really perform poorly.
I used A1's and A2's extensively and never had any issues with either and the Lsw no jams nothing found them to be pretty reliable tbfair but maybe I was lucky lol
Great vid! I’ve shot a modified A2, which was a massive improvement on the A1, if you get the chance fire either the A2 or A3, you’ll find them much more reliable
In the army, I used the SA80 platform from L85 and L86 all the way to L85A3, and I can say unlike many others, I loved it. It was a total bag of absolute ass before the A2 modifications, but A2 and A3 were a totally different animal; more reliable than the M4, higher velocity than the G36 and near match accurate. It's amazing how well sorted it is, even if it is not long from retirement as a platform, If you ever get a chance (although the chances are fairly remote with how little of them are around), the L22 carbine is glorious, probably the loudest and most fun firearm I've ever shot, and I've shot a 5 inch AR 🤣
@@DocRed39 Absolutely, I spent the last 2 years of my service as hele crew, and our issued weapons were the L22 and Browning/Glock sidearm. Range day was always fun! The muzzle flash was immense but if you fired the carbine with tracers (as we often did), it felt one step away from a flame induced sunburn. Memories eh.
Only I do that every time I carry out an MEI, I fit a mag with drill rounds and I've have never had rounds come loose, the magazine would have to be in a poor state to start with and it's an impossibility anyway as the leading round comes into contact with the underside of the bolt carrier preventing even a loose round from coming out.
Admittedly the early versions had its faults ( main one being , mag drop off ) , but this rifle gets a lot bad press and wasn’t as bad as it’s made out to be , bet half the comments from people who are trashing it have never even picked up the weapon.
@@DocRed39Very glad to hear it. So many negative comments about this rifle, even seen a vid where a guy fired it UNTIL it jammed and said; 'There, told you so.' Pretty funny.
From what I gather, the L85 in itself was not a bad rifle. there were only two problems. One, it was originally chambered for 4.85x39, a softer shooting, faster projectile using the .223rem case. it was never intended for what would become 5.56 which meant that they had to faff about with the design to get it to work. Two, Our economy was under significant stress as Margret Thatcher had practically sold and privatised our entire industrial base to abroad firms. RSAF Enfield was due to be shut down or sold off, the details are hazy, so there were very few skilled designers and such left, and the folks that were there were heavily de-moralised and underpaid as far as I am aware. The team that was behind the L85 were engineers. machine folk who had no military experience and had never even gone to fire a rifle before which lead to a bad design. and due to the aforementioned recession and depressed workforce, the original XL85s and L85A1s were garbage. QC was inadequate, polymer parts were prone to cracking and flexing and the bolt would scrape the sides of the ammunition creating debris in the action which would lead to stoppages or failure.
The faults with the L85 A1 are ancient history,, The HK A2 variant is a good weapon. Bit like a Skoda - was a POS until the Germans got hold of it ( Although HK is a German based British owned company at time of rebuild)
Original as far as I know, can’t speak for springs and whatnot if they had been worn out and replaced since replacement parts are virtually nonexistent.
Blanks was a totally nightmare. Spent more time trying to clear than rounds down range. No matter what I did with my magazines I ended up loading 28 rounds. Why this worked I don’t know The springs in the mags were garbage
@@stewartgrindlay9760 yea think in the end we was told to just load 28 rounds, springs was shite. BFA just couldnt recirculate enough gases to recycle the rounds with blanks i dont think. I liked the A2 though A3's meant to be aright from what iv heard no more issues than most service weapon systems around.
@@stewartgrindlay9760 Blanks don't produce enough gas to cycle the bolt properly. Spent cases can't eject fast enough and new rounds have too much friction to be moved from the magazine into the chamber.
It had the makings to be a decent battle rifle as the A3 turned out to be. What’s the point in having one of the most trained 3 branches in the world if we get crap equipment. Like train Usain Bolt but is only given dinner shoes to run in.
L85A2 is up there with my favorite weapons ever produced then again I'm biased being Canadian most Lee Enfield weapons are close to my heart especially the 1917 Lee Enfield .303 British.
Fired off a full magazine, once empty the working parts should have been to the rear. Which they were not. When he pulled the working parts to the rear, no round was ejected. Why?
mike gee Are you blind? And the five others that liked this look at that barrel toss like a jackhammer! Then look at a full auto m4 that L85 looks like a nightmare! And yeah I know I’m replying to a five year old comment 🗿
Well it's quite a bit heavier than either of them, so the impulse for the same bullet mass and powder charge is less. Also as it has a longer barrel, the gas pressure at the muzzle is lower, thus lower particle velocity, thus less force generated due to the rocket effect.
I was about to ask if this was an A1 or an A2 before they replaced the crappy plastic hand guard. But then I saw the crappy charging handle and it answered my question.
Because while the A1 had it's problems it was nowhere near as bad as legend and the internet likes to claim. I never had a stoppage with live rounds in five years in using A1s, albeit solely in a UK based training environment.
there were a few soldiers who borrowed them to take home but then forgot to return them.. its not clear how someone can steal a sa80 from the army but it's definitely happened.
every video featuring this weapon has a lot of angry british people in the comments bashing the poor rifle. it's scary, sad and hillarious at the same time.
It's kind of convoluted. Brits are conditioned to hate the iron lady. Part of that conditioning is to teach them to hate anything and everything related to her or that happened during her time and the SA80 family is something that came online during her stint as PM (despite the state of it having almost nothing to do with her government). As such they're taught something along the lines of "it's a rifle that didn't work that was only made so that the government could sell the enfield plant to the public sector" and the conditioning they have received also teaches them to spread it and circle jerk (to continually reinforce each others conditioning).
@@jimmehjiimmeehh9748 Margaret Thatcher (and Jim Callaghan before her) got us into the Falklands War, while also cutting the armed forces by a large margin, then later after her re-election, the papers were full of how stupid army boys had voted for her 'because she'd given us a war'. Nope. It's hard now to convince people how hated she really was, for this among many, many other reasons. These reasons are why immediately that she was dead, the old song 'ding dong the witch is dead' went straight to the top of the downloads charts. - it's because she was hated a great deal.
@@stevetheduck1425 She got us into the Falklands war, eh? How so? She mind control Galtieri? (If you don't get it, I am pointing out that you're full of shit.)
Rather than a successful magazine dump from an L85, I'm actually more impressed some private outfit in the USA has an L85 of *_ANY_* kind, as from what I've heard, they weren't sold to any other country, as no-one wanted the bloody things!
A handful exist outside of the British army though I'm not sure how exactly as the British army doesn't tend to surplus it's weapons. Though Bloke On The Range did feature a semi auto only A1 that was privately owned by an Italian, so they do exist
@@Motorman2112 yes they did, used by special forces I believe. Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and a few other nations have them too but all through aid programs, Bolivia bought theirs.
@@JackRoadkill it's not a bad rifle, the A2 is actually pretty good and im pretty sure it's the most accurate modern service rifle. It's just heavy as fuck, I've handled both the L85 and the L86 and they're monsters, I've a mate in 2Para who says he liked the L85 till he went to Louisiana to train with the 82nd ABN, now he wants an M4 haha
how the hell did you get hold of a l85a1 since they were never on sale to civlians ! even the l98a1 the straight pull version of the l85 a1 which is today legal to own in the uk was never on sale and more to the point do you have a class 3 ticket ?
I heard a semi-only parts kit was released in USA. Also in Mozambique it was sold to them and then sold onto civilian's which pissed of the MOD! Also Zimbabwe had it as well, and Columbian Special Forces use it as well!
If this is an A1 you better have bought a lottery ticket immediately afterwards. If it was an A2 then it's actually a pretty solid rifle from all accounts.
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amazing, usually an L85 'mag dump' only happens when you accidentally press the mag release. truly a world first
LOOOOOOL
I can tell someone served in the 80s 90s 😁
And don't hold that mag to tight, or you'll probably squeeze the rounds in place.
Haaaa! Damn that was clever!
Yeah my brother served from 96-99 he hated his L85. My dad however loved his L1A1 when he served
‘Rifle fires, rifle fires, rifle stops’
Only a few of you will remember that.
As in ‘weapon firing, weapon stops - on looking inside - there are no rounds in the magazine, and no rounds in the chamber - go on!’ NSP’s.....
Yep
A2 drill - forward assist.
On inspection the working parts are too the rear there are no rounds in the magazine, and no rounds in the chamber
It's the practice situation for any stoppage on the SLR, usually not enough gas, rarely a misfire.
surprised you made it through a full mag on the A1 variant
He didn’t, bolt was fully forward when it stopped,
mag wasn’t empty, stoppage
@@gfield1607 thats what i thought, sure didnt feel like 30 rounds.
@@gfield1607 he did you can see the mag is empty
@@gfield1607 he pulled the bolt back and no round was ejected so it must have beeb empty.
@@arandomyoutuber6634 yep you guys are right, can you see the other problem though?
I never used the A1, but I did use the A2 for 10 years and although I never liked the bull pup design, it was actually a really reliable rifle in the desert, arctic and jungle.
It's heavy too, so when you're out of rounds you can club your enemies to death with it
Thank you for giving realistic feedback ♥️
"Hevy is good, hevy is reliable...!"
@@decespugliatorenucleare3780 augh! What’s that quote from? It’s so familiar
@@famalam943 Something something Soviet Russia.
@@PumpkinHoard Boris the Russian!
rifle's firing alright, rifle's firing alright, rifle stops.
On looking at the cocking handle the cocking handle is fully forward
*Taps forward assist*
@@joshuagraham8594 weapon still fails to fire
@@Mjk10957 pull cocking handle fully to the rear and inspect the chamber
@@lukeocallaghan1605 there is a casing blocking the chamber
Now imagine keeping that functioning after 5 days on Dartmoor in the rain whilst being told “ civvies pay thousands for this !”
knew it was a bootie even before checking the name !
Hoofing
Dartmoor Devon?
@@MrFreefonix420 nope ...Norway 🤦♂️
Kit muster in the drill shed
pov: somebody said "chips" instead of "crisps"
I've only read the 4 top comments but this is the best one so far
If you even dare call crisps "chips" I will personally smite you in the name of the queen.
Yuckk
FRENCH FRIES. POTATO CHIPS. ELEVATOR. VACATION.
@@lanceelopezz223 gross (also GARBAGE)
Its chips you bri'ish man
Rare footage of the first time an L85A1 has managed to shoot a full magazine without jamming
I remember the only time I got to do full auto was when I was in Bosnia . I was part of the ammo section and we had so much stuff to get rid off so the let us fire loads of it off . With my trusty L85A1 I demonstrated why I wasn't a crack shot because i think i missed everything
Appreciate everyone else's experience with the A1 but I only found jams with 1) bent, or even imperceptibly bent tin mags, 2) dirty gas parts, 3) knackered communal armoury weapons (rather than pers issue wpn)
Just to add to comments, the Army did introduce some odd drills to offset design flaws, including the "forward assist." Also, you must engage the "holding open catch" in order to hold the "working parts" (bolt carrier assembly etc) to the rear. This was the drill I was taught on A1 and A2, although I didn't use the A3 before I retired. My son tells me the A3 is a much more accurate weapon, but like most infanteers, often ruined by attaching too much **** to it.
You fired an A1 on full auto without the firing pin snapping? I’m impressed
When someone refers to the Falklands as the "Islas Malvinas" and declares them to be rightfully Argentinian.
Bois get them Sa58s ready
Had Argentina Not invaded, they Would be Las Islas Malvinas now, we had a similar agreement with Argentina over the Falklands as we did with China over Hong Kong. And it was due to expire around the same time
@@paulcollyer801 Yeah but that's what happens when you have a dictatorship on the brink if collapse, at least the British helped indirectly in the process of Argentina going back to democracy
@@paulcollyer801 thank fuck they invaded then
@@paulcollyer801 thats the thing I find odd though, Argentina were never historical owners of the islands, nor would it be of any benefit to them, The only people I feel that have a legitimate claim over the islands other than us are the Spanish, French and *maybe* the US. but as it turns out, 98% of the population weren't too happy with the Argentinians anyway so they'll likely never get the islands.
When someone's says they don't like tea
I'm British
And I don't like tea 🙂🙂
@@Mooshake069420 illegal
@@Mooshake069420 wheres your loicense to not ave a cup 'f Tea mate? thas jus' SCHTEWPID init?
@@Mooshake069420 Oh my, this is sacrilege.
@@Mooshake069420 you're getting deported
There’s some bullshit talked about the A1. I rarely had a stoppage with live rounds. Yes it had its faults which have now been sorted.
With the shitty bent RG mags i got a stoppage at least once a mag with blanks and about once every two mags with ball. The single best improvement was the sturdy HK mags.
It used to hate blank rounds at one time trying to feed three into my chamber. Wasn't a quick fix issue
Same here, I used the A1 alot and tbh i had barely any stoppages on the ranges or Ops, aslong as it was maintained well, oiled etc, i found it to be fine.
im the same i used it during training and the was issued the LSW in the Army and as long as you looked after it like you should with any weapon it was fine never had any stoppages due to the rifle but did have a couple due to ammunition issues just overly tough primers. I love the L85 family
newsflash, rifles works as intended when maintained and not being smashed n bashed by pebble-brained privates
We’re was the forward assist
Forward assist was never a thing on the A1. Probably because there was hardly ever a cocking handle that stayed in place long enough
@@30006714 when I did my weapon handling test on of the thing they could of failed us on was the forward assist
Cadet?
@@leoscotton7575 Royal Navy
Oh right I thought it would sound a bit different coming from the actual military but I guess not
He has better recoil control than me on any game.
The SA80 has not got much recoil
@@freshfrozen3035 Thats nice
Lol if only real life weapons u can memorize to spray patterns for.
@@Razorwindsg Only if
There is a reason for that. the L85s are 10.98lbs empty, 12lbs with a loaded mag. The majority of rifles in that caliber or even larger don't weigh that much.
I feel sorry for the brits who have to haul that thing around as it reduces the amount of stuff they can carry.
No forward assist
it doesnt need a forward assist because the charging handle is connected to the bolt
@@arandomyoutuber6634 it does need a tap forward assist . part of the loading and make ready drill is ur tap forward assist
Fucking hell I never thought I'd see an A1 get through a full mag on full auto.
@@kusajko3644 There's nothing in that magazine, what are you on about
@@kusajko3644 The mag is empty Mr. Wiki Expert
the mag holds less than you think, its not like in games where 30 is standard
@@LordVortexian no? Standard capacity for stanag is 30 rounds.
@@mrcaboosevg6089 you are right actually, i don't know what i've seen in there previously xD. I guess i was watching this on my phone and on small screen it looked different or something. Deleting my comment, thanks for correction.
Seeing all the hate against the A1....i truly never had many problems with it...fired 1000s of rounds through it and the A2...used it in NI, Bosnia, Kosovo and the sandy countries.
I believe you, ours wasn’t horrible either
People think the A1s struggled for all of its usage but later on a lot of the kink were ironed out, it was only when in the sandy environments did it really perform poorly.
Guy in the back sounds like George clooney
it may be worse than the A2 but i really love the look of the A1's cocking handle
@666 Magnum666 damn you got him good there buddy
Damn, fancy seeing you here
Looks good until shells start hitting your face
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@@skywardsoul1178 ladsss
I used A1's and A2's extensively and never had any issues with either and the Lsw no jams nothing found them to be pretty reliable tbfair but maybe I was lucky lol
Great vid! I’ve shot a modified A2, which was a massive improvement on the A1, if you get the chance fire either the A2 or A3, you’ll find them much more reliable
Sweet, never seen a mag dump with one of these.
In the army, I used the SA80 platform from L85 and L86 all the way to L85A3, and I can say unlike many others, I loved it. It was a total bag of absolute ass before the A2 modifications, but A2 and A3 were a totally different animal; more reliable than the M4, higher velocity than the G36 and near match accurate. It's amazing how well sorted it is, even if it is not long from retirement as a platform, If you ever get a chance (although the chances are fairly remote with how little of them are around), the L22 carbine is glorious, probably the loudest and most fun firearm I've ever shot, and I've shot a 5 inch AR 🤣
Always wanted a run on the l22 after seeing British MP's with them!
@@DocRed39 Absolutely, I spent the last 2 years of my service as hele crew, and our issued weapons were the L22 and Browning/Glock sidearm. Range day was always fun! The muzzle flash was immense but if you fired the carbine with tracers (as we often did), it felt one step away from a flame induced sunburn. Memories eh.
It's amazing how much improved the A2 is from the A1 turned a hated rifle into a battle hardened weapon with a wide range of uses
One thing nailed in to me by instructors is never smack the bottom of a L85 magazine as it can dislodge rounds in the magazine, even on the A2 variant
They are ar15 style mags I doubt that would ever happen,
Weird. US soldiers are taught to slap the ever living shit out of M4 mags to ensure they are seated.
Only I do that every time I carry out an MEI, I fit a mag with drill rounds and I've have never had rounds come loose, the magazine would have to be in a poor state to start with and it's an impossibility anyway as the leading round comes into contact with the underside of the bolt carrier preventing even a loose round from coming out.
Never smack the bottom of any mag. In. Pull. Relax.
Admittedly the early versions had its faults ( main one being , mag drop off ) , but this rifle gets a lot bad press and wasn’t as bad as it’s made out to be , bet half the comments from people who are trashing it have never even picked up the weapon.
I’m more interested in how his got out of the UK
I'm wondering the same lol
@drunken sailor 31 reckon he found it in a bin
There's a few floating about. You'd be surprised how many are in people's lofts lol
There's one in Macedonia somewhere, ask me how I know...
I love the L85, idc what anybody says.
Same! It's a very interesting rifle and a joy to shoot recreationally atleast!
When I saw 'LA85 mag dump' I was expecting it to fall out of the well onto the counter.
That mag lasted approximately 1% as long as they do in bullshit Hollywood films XD
That one guy on the range that forgets to check the change lever before firing!
when it comes to AR’s the L85 is my favorite
After 18 years service was never able to do that lol
Bloody hell! An A1 that can get off more than 5 rounds without jamming!
Just takes a good ol boy to make one of them there mini coopers run! 😂
looking at the title: "no way the A1 doesnt at least have a minor malfunction in this video"
Suffers stoppage. classic.
Twenty rounds without a jam on an A1 or A2 was this?
Have there been modifications on this example?
Intruiging.
The rifle had its fair share of issues but when paired with good ammo and regular cleaning it worked surprisingly well.
@@DocRed39Very glad to hear it.
So many negative comments about this rifle, even seen a vid where a guy fired it UNTIL it jammed and said; 'There, told you so.'
Pretty funny.
From what I gather, the L85 in itself was not a bad rifle. there were only two problems. One, it was originally chambered for 4.85x39, a softer shooting, faster projectile using the .223rem case. it was never intended for what would become 5.56 which meant that they had to faff about with the design to get it to work. Two, Our economy was under significant stress as Margret Thatcher had practically sold and privatised our entire industrial base to abroad firms. RSAF Enfield was due to be shut down or sold off, the details are hazy, so there were very few skilled designers and such left, and the folks that were there were heavily de-moralised and underpaid as far as I am aware. The team that was behind the L85 were engineers. machine folk who had no military experience and had never even gone to fire a rifle before which lead to a bad design. and due to the aforementioned recession and depressed workforce, the original XL85s and L85A1s were garbage. QC was inadequate, polymer parts were prone to cracking and flexing and the bolt would scrape the sides of the ammunition creating debris in the action which would lead to stoppages or failure.
the only l85 to ever get through a mag
I didnt think any of these made it out of the UK?
Same mate
Yeah how has this been acquired?
@@gawge_9609 some over the years were "lost" and magically turned up across the world in the late 90's early 2000's
@@stalker5299 really? Huh. Might dig deeper into that, sounds pretty interesting
The faults with the L85 A1 are ancient history,, The HK A2 variant is a good weapon. Bit like a Skoda - was a POS until the Germans got hold of it ( Although HK is a German based British owned company at time of rebuild)
Weapon fires alright, weapon fires alright, weapon fires alright, weapon fires alright, weapon fires alright, weapon fires alright...
I was fully expecting him to fire in semi-auto and clear a jam every other round
Has this got all the original parts or has any of it been changed?
Original as far as I know, can’t speak for springs and whatnot if they had been worn out and replaced since replacement parts are virtually nonexistent.
I swear the action stays open on an empty mag? Or am i forgetting from being out 12 years 😂 fucking constant jams with blanks i remember that
It does. It's a small catch and could be worn away
Blanks was a totally nightmare.
Spent more time trying to clear than rounds down range.
No matter what I did with my magazines I ended up loading 28 rounds. Why this worked I don’t know
The springs in the mags were garbage
@@stewartgrindlay9760 yea think in the end we was told to just load 28 rounds, springs was shite. BFA just couldnt recirculate enough gases to recycle the rounds with blanks i dont think. I liked the A2 though A3's meant to be aright from what iv heard no more issues than most service weapon systems around.
@@stewartgrindlay9760 Blanks don't produce enough gas to cycle the bolt properly. Spent cases can't eject fast enough and new rounds have too much friction to be moved from the magazine into the chamber.
It had the makings to be a decent battle rifle as the A3 turned out to be.
What’s the point in having one of the most trained 3 branches in the world if we get crap equipment.
Like train Usain Bolt but is only given dinner shoes to run in.
A1 supprised that didn't block or melt
You have colonised the range
Fucking lol
That looks like a jolly good time!
I do love my job;)
That theatrical echo sounded like he just got the last kill on a call of duty game. 😳 👂
Hahaha
First A1 to successfully dump a mag
A whole magdump using an L85A1? Without a single malfunction? How the hell did he pull that off?
Frog Lube
@@DocRed39 That explains some things. Kinda.
Americans: that ran pretty good
Poor Brit lad: reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
L85A2 is up there with my favorite weapons ever produced then again I'm biased being Canadian most Lee Enfield weapons are close to my heart especially the 1917 Lee Enfield .303 British.
Fired off a full magazine, once empty the working parts should have been to the rear. Which they were not. When he pulled the working parts to the rear, no round was ejected. Why?
Just a failure to lock open, simple malfunction
When they dump the tea so you dump the mag.
You’ll find the reason this one didn’t jam is because it hadn’t been smacked against a wall while in storage
Where did you get this weapon? I thought they couldn't be obtained outside of the UK?
Oh my gawd! hes a spy! we must apprehend him for queen and country
Weapon fires weapon fires weapon fires... weapon still fires? Weapon does not stop...
Gotta admit, the L85 has even less visible recoil than the M4a1 or the AK74m, and they have little recoil!
mike gee Are you blind? And the five others that liked this look at that barrel toss like a jackhammer! Then look at a full auto m4 that L85 looks like a nightmare! And yeah I know I’m replying to a five year old comment 🗿
Well it's quite a bit heavier than either of them, so the impulse for the same bullet mass and powder charge is less. Also as it has a longer barrel, the gas pressure at the muzzle is lower, thus lower particle velocity, thus less force generated due to the rocket effect.
Really, diddent u see his elbow and arm was resting on the table
Because it's ridiculously heavy for it's size. Once you've had to hoof it (among other things) around Brecon a few times, you learn to hate it.
it weighs a ton. Barely moves when firing.
No tap forward assist! Nice lol
Say what you will about how it performs but to me it's always been a good looking gun.
No forward assist?
Those shoot bullets??? Since when
How did you get an L85 they can’t be sold to civvies
Remember we had 20 dudes firing two mags of blanks on full auto without ear defs, had tinitus for about a week...
This guy lives dangerously, no forward assist. also, how come bolt didn't lock to rear?
The bolt catch is probably broken, it's an A1 they weren't known for working right
@@padraig6200 I used one for 5 years, no issues at all, they didn’t like blanks or the 22 conversion but with live rounds I had few issues.
I was about to ask if this was an A1 or an A2 before they replaced the crappy plastic hand guard. But then I saw the crappy charging handle and it answered my question.
A1 without jamming well done
How did you manage to fire the SA80A1 on full auto without jamming?
Isn't that an A2?
No, its got the round cocking handle of the A1
Because A1s don't really jam unless they have foreign material inside the chamber
Like every other modern assault rifle. The A1 is fine as long as it isn't full of shit
@@norfangl3480 Good thing they didn't put giant holes in the reciever then.
Wow so that's what they look like. Every one I ever saw in theater was wrapped in a plastic bag.
lmao
With the vsk optic. I like
That’s powerful !
OK how does an American civilian come across a full auto British service rifle
You visit someone who is licensed to have them and they let you hold it. There is no legal way for a civilian to own a full auto L85.
DAMN surprised he didnt have a stoppage with the A1
Because while the A1 had it's problems it was nowhere near as bad as legend and the internet likes to claim. I never had a stoppage with live rounds in five years in using A1s, albeit solely in a UK based training environment.
Privately-owned SA80s must be rare as hens teeth… even without factoring in full auto capability. What’s the story behind this weapon?
You are correct and the background on the rifle is definitely muddy.
there were a few soldiers who borrowed them to take home but then forgot to return them.. its not clear how someone can steal a sa80 from the army but it's definitely happened.
every video featuring this weapon has a lot of angry british people in the comments bashing the poor rifle.
it's scary, sad and hillarious at the same time.
Well to be fair it is the worst issued weapon since the French Chachat. Actually I think I'll take the French Chachat in 8mm lebel over the L85.
It's kind of convoluted. Brits are conditioned to hate the iron lady. Part of that conditioning is to teach them to hate anything and everything related to her or that happened during her time and the SA80 family is something that came online during her stint as PM (despite the state of it having almost nothing to do with her government). As such they're taught something along the lines of "it's a rifle that didn't work that was only made so that the government could sell the enfield plant to the public sector" and the conditioning they have received also teaches them to spread it and circle jerk (to continually reinforce each others conditioning).
they bash it cause it's a terrible gun.
@@jimmehjiimmeehh9748 Margaret Thatcher (and Jim Callaghan before her) got us into the Falklands War, while also cutting the armed forces by a large margin, then later after her re-election, the papers were full of how stupid army boys had voted for her 'because she'd given us a war'.
Nope.
It's hard now to convince people how hated she really was, for this among many, many other reasons.
These reasons are why immediately that she was dead, the old song 'ding dong the witch is dead' went straight to the top of the downloads charts.
- it's because she was hated a great deal.
@@stevetheduck1425 She got us into the Falklands war, eh? How so? She mind control Galtieri?
(If you don't get it, I am pointing out that you're full of shit.)
Thank god that indoor range wasn't slightly dusty or it would've clogged and jammed.
Surprised this hasn't reached 10m views
It worked. Damn
Rather than a successful magazine dump from an L85, I'm actually more impressed some private outfit in the USA has an L85 of *_ANY_* kind, as from what I've heard, they weren't sold to any other country, as no-one wanted the bloody things!
A handful exist outside of the British army though I'm not sure how exactly as the British army doesn't tend to surplus it's weapons.
Though Bloke On The Range did feature a semi auto only A1 that was privately owned by an Italian, so they do exist
Didn't Bolivia buy some?
@@Motorman2112 yes they did, used by special forces I believe. Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and a few other nations have them too but all through aid programs, Bolivia bought theirs.
@@padraig6200 Man, the irony! "Hey, we're being given some modern assault rifles to bring our army up to scratch!"
@@JackRoadkill it's not a bad rifle, the A2 is actually pretty good and im pretty sure it's the most accurate modern service rifle. It's just heavy as fuck, I've handled both the L85 and the L86 and they're monsters, I've a mate in 2Para who says he liked the L85 till he went to Louisiana to train with the 82nd ABN, now he wants an M4 haha
I'm surprised it didn't malfunction at least once
how the hell did you get hold of a l85a1 since they were never on sale to civlians ! even the l98a1 the straight pull version of the l85 a1 which is today legal to own in the uk was never on sale
and more to the point do you have a class 3 ticket ?
I heard a semi-only parts kit was released in USA. Also in Mozambique it was sold to them and then sold onto civilian's which pissed of the MOD! Also Zimbabwe had it as well, and Columbian Special Forces use it as well!
@@MrPolicekarim nope, all original, never de milled
If this is an A1 you better have bought a lottery ticket immediately afterwards. If it was an A2 then it's actually a pretty solid rifle from all accounts.
where can i find and use one?
Look Ma, no jams!
and that was without even a single jam
It isn't the best rifle in the world but it's a British/German rifle and it sure as hell does it's job
That scope looks like a monocle.
Great looking rifle
No forward assist 👀
Dude it didn’t run pretty good it ran flawlessly 😂😂😂 that’s a good sign at least
was that 30 rounds he shot?
22 rounds and there are still rounds in the mag he pulls out. The weapon jammed.
I cant believe it didn't break!
No jam!???
Oh must have been an paid actor
The worst standard issue rifle to be issued to British soldiers... We sure know what guns to pick.
It sure was a downgrade from the L1A1 SLR.
AWOSUM 👌👌👌💐
And when he tries the reload the bolt falls off