FN FAL info

I have the Big 3

FAL, AK47, M14

AR15 does not count!

The FAL is one of my favourites in my collection. Between an M14 and a FAL, I'd choose the FAL hands down. It was the only restricted rifle at the time I can remember when I first got my FAC. I had to wait until I was 18 to be able to purchase one. (by completing the restricted course) You can easily see the engineering idea's stolen from the Russian SVT40 and the Swede AG42. It was fun to shoot and fairly easy to clean. Simple in design to accomodate full automatic. (Canadain Navy) It had a sturdy magazine, and was very accurate in the right hands. There was no fear of the rifle breaking in half, when it was needed to butt-stroke somebody on the other team. (Unlike the C7 series) It used a good gas system, that was fully adjustable to different rifle conditions, and sub standard ammo.

There's a reason why it was used by over 90 countries for over 30 some years.

I'd say it did it's part for world history.
 
I had heard that some of the Canadian C1's and C1A1's would break open if they were fired in extreme cold temps, but I never had a problem with them

I have a Valmet M78, an M14 (CA) 2 M305's and an L1A1. All fun to shoot but the hands-down favourite gun to shoot (especially standing up!) was the FN. As I have posted earlier in previous threads related to this, of all the guns in the safe, the FN gives me the feeling of the most confidence in the rifle.
 
curtton said:
we supplied more than rear sight to the aussie for their L2A1 .

on the pic below of L2A1 , you will notice a brown plastic carry handle , brown plastic is canada , black plastic is brit and green plastic is aussie so they bought the brown plastic carry handle from us.

you will also notice the wooden bipod is different color and different grains to the grip and butt stock and that is bcos canada wood is the dark walnut whereas the aussie use the lighter cottonwood.

the front sight protector is unique to canada .

the aussie also bought front sling band, the metal parts of the bipod and the trigger plunger and ofcos you mentioned the rear sight.

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Interesting!

Skennerton only mentions the rear sight in his books, and I assumed the Aussies coppied our front sight, since we produced the master drawings.
 
jamiejaf said:
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Tight tolerances my ass...the butt catch would fly open on automatic firing spilling the carrier out on to the ground. The C2's were just retarded. The Canadian rear disc type sight would fall out as well leaving a huge hole to pear through. Because the Canadian version had the body cover chopped for a magazine charger, occasionally shooters would get injured by hot carbon and s**t blown through the port that the piston rod came through. I'm glad we got rid of them as a military. The rear and front sights were on different parts of the receiver. The play between the pivoting receivers would worsen over time causing poor medium range shooting. I couldn't hit anything past 300m with my personal issued rifle. The first C7 i was issued would outshoot that C1 anyday.
Besides they're prohibited which even more retarded than the rifle itself...you're not missing anything.
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- I carried and fired the FN C1A1 and FN C2A1 from Jan 1971 until their replacement in CFE in Nov 1987. I jumped out of Hercs with the EX-1 and FN C1A1. I fired both the C1 and C2 in competition and found that if the weapon was cared for by it's user and the first line wpns techs, the weapon was reliable and accurate enough for a battle rifle. If the sights fell off, the user was unsupervised and his leaders incompetant. I will accept with a grain of salt the idea that "hot carbon" or anything else would blow though the port in the upper receiver that the gas piston rod transits to strike the breach block carrier. The weapons were respected by those who mastered it. Others don't matter much.
 
In looking at my FN's, I don't see a whole lot of carbon anywhere beyond the first couple of inches of the gas piston.

I think the ONLY way that could possibly happen would be if the gas port was set to 9 to allow almost no gas to escape through the port, resulting in it trying to go down the gas tube and around the piston.

That said, if you've got your port set to 9, you've either got something wrong with your rifle, or (more likely) YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. My FN's fired quite nicely at 5-7 usually, but I had this one batch of reloads that were....HOT....they cycled even at 0.

The only possible source of this hot carbon of which you speak is empty cases being extracted.

I had one of those burn the palm of my hand so that I could actually read the headstamp in my flesh.

NS
 
You guys make me sick...

I wish I'd been smart/rich enough to get one when I could have... But hindsight is 20/20 regret is only for the weak...
 
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