Better photos of my Armscopr Izzy Light Barrel

I was asked for some close ups so here they are.......

Hope they are what you wanted.

Very nice! I wish these old parts kits could talk. It would be interesting to know where they had been and what action, if any, they saw in their previous lives.

Sir,
Thank you for showing the Lt. Brl. Israeli. That rifle is a beautiful example of an old war horse. I would love to an example like that, but I missed that boat over a decade ago Have you shot her?

Snif Snif..... That's Beautiful man !!!!!!!!!!

Not yet, I travel alot in my work, so she may sit awhile before I can get to the rangs.

Thanks

This is my Izzy, a 1967-dated parts kit built on an early Entreprise "Israel Match" Type I receiver. Unlike the latest Entreprise fiasco, the build went together without a hitch, the barrel even timing up like it came from the receiver to start with.

Yours looks very nice! I dig the Hebrew lettering on the receiver. I'd like to get mine engraved on the right side of the mag well like the military models do, but since Pat Jones died a few weeks ago I don't know who does the engraving anymore.



EDIT: Drich,

The barrel has a 3/67 date stamp on the barrel, which probably makes it a 6-Day War veteran, maybe the Yom Kippur War, too. I wonder what it would say if it could talk, too...

You did a very good job on it.

You are correct that Enterprise used to make a really good receiver, and sometimes you still can get a good one. Just luck of the draw.

Mine was imported as a rifle, built by SBL in Israel and imported by Armscops.

What part of TN are you in?

Nashville.


I know all about the Arscorp/Onyx rifles. They are very slick! I wish I could have found one, but this one sort of fell into my lap and I couldn't refuse the deal.

I used to live in Antioch about 27 years ago. Maintiance Manger at CMC Drugs on the old airbase. Really liked living there. Lived about 4 miles from PP lake, went there most every afternoon there for a few hours.

Had to come back home to Memphis because of my Mothers health.

I see a lug on the barrel, between the Gas system and Muzzle, similar to the G1 West German Fals. Is it the same setup???

On mine there is no lug. On Ironhandjohn there is a lug and it is the same set up.

Yes mine is lugged. The early and mid-use Israelis were lugged in order to use Belgian Type A bayonets and muzzle devices, as well as their own, like the grenade-launcher attachment I found at Knob Creek last year. When the lugged barrels wore out they were replaced with barrels with threaded muzzles, and I've seen a pic from a museum in Israel that had both a bayonet lug AND a standard combo device on the muzzle. At that point in their history(and probably even today, just look at their M-16s sometime)they used whatever they had on hand to restore worn out rifles to service.


The G1 has a shorter barrel, so their muzzle devices will not fit on an Izzy. They bottom out before the latch reaches the lug.

My rifle was built during the '94 ban so the builder nipped the lug just enough to make it inoperable with a bayonet, but my launcher still fits. No training grenades, though, or I'd be shooting them off all the time!!

Also note ––––- For all the yout's out there who have never seen one –––––– Both of these firearms have "forward assist" cocking handles...

Yes they do, not that I've ever used the feature.



I learned the "Colt SP-1" style of forward assist from a 'Nam vet I once knew, who was issued an M-16, NOT A1. If the bolt doesn't ride all the way home, just bump the stock on the ground and it'll go into battery.

Nice example of a late pattern one. I bet the barrel date is fairly late, you can find it under the hand guard.

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