IMBEL FAL, well, almost.....

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I got to fire a brand-new IMBEL FAL today - one made especially for the rather odd yUK market, though. Not certain whether to laff or cry, to tell the truth.

1. It sooooooooooooooooo cool handling an FAL/SLR again after such a long time - mine was taken off me back in 1988.

2. Having to #### the thing after each shot was a pain I really could do without.

Old fool that I am, it brought back many happy memories in spite of it all.

The price for this exceedingly well-made not-quite-a-FAL?

Sit down.



Take a deep breath.



















$4500.00

tac
 
FALover said:
Jumpin' Bejeebas! Does that include the VAT and a jar of lube? ouch!
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Yup. Tax at 20%. BTW, it likes ANY and all .308Win that has been FLR'd, but does not like ANY of the three different suplus stuff the owner tried in it. Now he has to learn to reload......

Way back when I bought mine to shoot in military comps- allowed back then provided it passed all the unit armourer checks - it had cost me over £400 [1984]. THAT was a LOT of money in those days, but then, you didn't have to crank the thing by hand either.

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tac
 
As a Brazilian, I am shocked with the price. Can you explain why?
And there is something different with your rifle, because never heard anything about FN / IMBEL rifles that need to be cocked after every single shot. Is possible to post pictures of your FAL?
 
m2101 said:
As a Brazilian, I am shocked with the price. Can you explain why?
And there is something different with your rifle, because never heard anything about FN / IMBEL rifles that need to be cocked after every single shot. Is possible to post pictures of your FAL?
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I think that this FAL is built specifically for the UK market, so the semi-auto capabilities would have to be permanently disabled.
 
m2101 said:
As a Brazilian, I am shocked with the price. Can you explain why?
And there is something different with your rifle, because never heard anything about FN / IMBEL rifles that need to be cocked after every single shot. Is possible to post pictures of your FAL?
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Sir - it is not mine, but is the property of a much richer fellow gun-club member. Here in yUK, since 1988, self-loading semi-auto centre-fire rifles and carbines have been prohibited firearms, hence the manually-operated or straight-pull versions of many guns that you know as semi-autos.

Rimfire semi-autos are still legal, BTW.

As for the price, well, for a start, IMBEL has to make an entirely legal in yUK mechanism that complies fully with the requirement in law here. Although this and any other similar firearms may appear to be quite normal, they have bo provision for any form of semi-auto mechaism, and cannot even be converted. Gas blocks are solid and piston tubes are too. Pricing is therefore governed by the rarity of these things in the first place, since of all civilised countries on earth, only the yUK has this ridiculous law.

tac
 
FALover said:
Bad law. I still have this one.
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Nice rifle FAL! I had an excellent condition Lithgow FAL which was registered in a friend's name (Only had a PAL) when they prohibited them. Called him to get the rifle transferred to me when I got my RPAL and got told that wasn't possible. This gun is the reason I got so passionate about firearms laws. Total BS and so completely frustrating I still get upset when I think about it. As far as I'm concerned the government of Canada owes me a FAL.
 
Any semi-automatic rifle regardless of barrel length or ol should be non-restricted and have no restrictions on magazine capacity. This bs with our country's former service rifle should be dealt with now. Any purpose built semi-automatic like AK's, AUG's FN's etc should be available to a free Canadian society. A lot of veterans have been kicked in the teeth by these laws. Our government needs to be writing the wrongs of the past instead of biting their nails from the sidelines.
An FN or SLR would be a pleasure to own.
 
Teapot - I could not agree more. The problem hereabouts is that back in 1988 a loner with a chip on each shoulder ran amok in the town of Hungerford [look up Hungerford Massacre], killing sixteen people and finally himself. He had set fire to his home and then wombled around the town shooting at anybody he saw. ONE of the guns he used as an AK-look-alike - a semi-auto. The response was a near-instant ban on centre-fire guns of this kind.

I was a serving soldier, and then an officer, when I had MY own SLR for competition in the UK Practical Rifle Association comps. MY SLR went to a shooter in Belgium, and all my other semi-autos also left the country for pastures new.

Herabouts we do the best we can with what we can, just like you guys do.

OT, buy hey. Happy Canada Day! We'll be celebrating in the backyard with a small gathering around the [borrowed] bar-b-q, and flying the family 120x8 ft maple leaf on the range on our sixty-foot flagpole! Really jerks the chains of our numerous American neighbours that WE get to celebrate the national day before THEY do. Cheers me up no end, that, eh?

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tac, stuck here.
 
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I was trained with the SLR all through my recruit days, and thereafter took every opportunity I could to shoot in any and all unit competitions. I loved that gun, no doubt about it. Later on, after getting back to UK from a tour in Germany, Parker-Hale offered fully-refurbed wood or plastic furniture SLRs for sale and I bought mine to take part not only in the military matches, but, as I noted, in the newly-formed practical rifle association of GB. Between that time and the ban, I did my best to shoot the rifling out of the barrel, so to speak, and there was rarely a weekend that I wasn't shooting it somewhere. Latterly, as a lone-wolf officer in a different arm unit, I was categorsied as a minor unit all by myself, with a minor unit allocation of both 7.62x51 AND 9mm Para ammunition. It was hard to shoot 27,500 rounds of each type a year, but by golly, I did my best.

That association is still going strong, in spite of having to use manually-operated rifles, and the many builders of this type of gun in the UK today supply a significant proportion of ALL licensed firearms holders. Take a look at Mark Bradley's site and you'll see the sort of thing I'm talking about.

tac
 
effinggoof said:
I remember those as well...the reconditioned ones were $299 or $399 and were junk.

The $99 ones were effing horrible though. Truely horrible.
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I had all kinds of FN's. Although the Indian ones were a bit crude in the machining dept, they were still great rifles, especially at the price point and they all shot quite well from an accuracy and reliability point of view.
 
I had the pleasure of firing a C/A at Calgary shooting center, then I fired one in all it's full auto glory in Las Vegas. It's an incredible machine. A straight pull is an insult. Better than nothing though I suppose.
 
i myself have been lookin around for a 7.62 FAL semi I have seen some still around but none willing to part with it I dont see why it would be prohibited at all when SEMI Auto setup.... but then again if u look at the list overall whats prohibited u gotta laugh
 
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