IMBEL's .22 FAL

[tacfoley]

Me shooting IMBEL's unbelievably expensive .22 version of the famous FAL battle rifle this morning at our club in East Anglia [allegedly]. This folding-stock made-as-a-22 rimfire costs around $6000 here.....................

More than ALL my eighteeen guns put together, and then some.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eryaEdO-KOI&list=HL1373808400&feature=mh_lolz

I guess that if you have it, flaunt it.

tac

 

[loki_81]

Your youtube link doesn't work .

*edit* Does now, neat plinker .

 

[loki_81]

Here, embedded for ya;

 

[tacfoley]

loki - many thanks! One day I'll get the hang of posting images and embedding.

Maybe.

tac

 

[pope_face]

Very nice... How does it feel? Did you shoot it offhand at all, or just on the bench? And how were the little holes in the paper once you were done?

 

[shredder]

Oh, if only we could have that here - at a reasonable price (say around $600-700).

I know lots of guys who served in the CAF when the FAL was the service rifle that would jump on one of them - me included!

 

[tacfoley]

Well, bearing in mind that I was shooting two different makes of ammunition and at disitnclty opposite ends of the scale from each other - R50 and GECO standard - all ten shots went into just under three inches. In mitigation, I'd add that -

a. the trigger felt like squashing a rat's head between finger and thumb, and

b. the battle-sights were HUGE - I could see most of the gun and surrounding countryside as well.

It felt VERY odd to shoot- as you might expect if, like me, you've spent any trigger time on the real thing. Until the thing was forcibly taken off me back in 1988 in a ban following a massacre in which a self-loading firearm was used, I have my own SLR to use in military competitions, seeing as I was in the military until 2000. I've also fired the UK-only straight-pull version, priced a little cheaper at only $5350.00 or so.

TTTT, it feels just like any heavy .22 semi-auto - mushy but fun, although such fun is way outside THIS boy's payscale.

tac

 

[crosman177]

cool vid, is it open or closed bolt?

 

[mh434]

Considering that I own 2 FAL's that I'll most likely NEVER be able to legally shoot again (thanks, Alan Rock, you #&%$@#*(*), I personally would love to own an actual shootable FAL. Of course, here, even a purpose-built, .22LR-only would no doubt be a "variant" and thus prohibited.

Who knows - maybe someday, someone will build a 10/22 FAL kit. If they did, I'd buy one. Right freakin' now.

 

[tacfoley]

cool vid, is it open or closed bolt?

Closed bolt - all very beautifully made, too.

As, indeed, it should be for the price.

No open-bolt firearms allowed here in yUK for civilians.

No semi-auto centre-fires either since 1988.

As for post #9 and the mention of bans for certain configurations, it's interesting to note for my pals over here in yUK that there are still some places where some of the gun laws are 'odder' than those in yUK.

tac