Wanting an FR8, what are they going for?
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The only issue with that is the type of ammo, I have a few parker Hale's that would make a good truck gun, but most times they just stay in the closet in the trailer.
It can. It's all I've ever run through mine, and although I've only a few hundred rounds through it (it isn't a high volume shooter for me), there's been no headspace shift or peening.
I lucked out with mine. It had been unfired since the rebuild (pics of the bolt face and bore below, from the time I bought it). It went from the arsenal, to a rack in the armory, to the surplus market, to someone who believed the #$%^ about them having a weak action, so he was too scared to shoot it, then to me. It was a guilty pleasure to pop the cherry on that gun.
I've run a few different types of surplus through it. Its favorite is some South African (not quite NATO spec, a bit hotter actually) surplus I got a pile of ages ago on a trade. 2&1/2" groups at 100 when I'm doing my bit, as much as my eyes will allow. Which is about as good as I get with irons. Worst is that Hirtenberger stuff that floats around, which I can't get better than 4&1/2" with. YMMV, every gun has its preference.
There's enough of these floating around, with people running NATO spec and commercial .308 from them, that if there was an actual problem running this ammo through them, well, there would be more than one random pic of a blown up action to show for it. My guess is the blown action was from an un-careful handload, which has been the death of many a fine rifle over the years.
Having said that... "Old guns are old" and need to be treated accordingly. They aren't the guns you want to be testing out your personal hot hand load on, and you should keep them clean, and keep an eye out for bolt lug deformation and peening. Other than that, if you have one, shoot it like you would any other 7.62NATO specced gun.
That's a very nice example you have there, thanks for including the accuracy you were achieving as well, that's one thing you can really find online for the fr7/fr8 is a decent accuracy report. Some of my surplus stash is a few battle packs of SA stuff, 15 years of collecting surplus 7.62x51 I've come to the point in my life where I want to start shooting it.
reddog9x19
CGN frequent flyer
Thank you Grelmar for the informative reply. The woodwork on your FR7 is beautiful to say the least. Well I'm gonna head out with my FR7, some 7.62 NATO & smack some steel!
My fr8 received more looky-loos at the range then I could of imagined.
Since I had the fr8, I grabbed a 308 garand to go with it.
Grab 7.62nato at gun shows whenever I run across them.
Traded a gp100 for the fr8, in today's market I wouldn't let it go for less then $1k. Not that it's a remarkable rifle, just the market is really inflated(to put it politely)
Since I had the fr8, I grabbed a 308 garand to go with it.
Grab 7.62nato at gun shows whenever I run across them.
Traded a gp100 for the fr8, in today's market I wouldn't let it go for less then $1k. Not that it's a remarkable rifle, just the market is really inflated(to put it politely)
Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Sounds defective, I'll take it off your hands for you
Lol.......uhm....no.
But thx for the offer.....
Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Yes indeed Grelmar's FR-7 is quite the eye candy!
I could not leave this thread without reporting 8x57 stripper clips work superbly in my FR-8 with 7.62x51 ball.
Thankfully a gracious member of CGN agreed to sell me a few of them recently.
I just tried them for the first instance tonite.
Cheers
I could not leave this thread without reporting 8x57 stripper clips work superbly in my FR-8 with 7.62x51 ball.
Thankfully a gracious member of CGN agreed to sell me a few of them recently.
I just tried them for the first instance tonite.
Cheers
Glad to hear it, I have a few kicking around, But ALOT of FAL ones
You know, to be honest, I've never really bothered with stripper clips for this gun. Just wasn't bombing enough ammo through it at any one time to really worry about it. I do have a random assortment of clips, including 8x57, if I can remember what box they're in, I'll give it a go.
Thanks for the compliments on the rifle. I've kept it in good kit since I bought it a number of years back. It was back when I was haunting every gun show I could find, and had a "list" of things in my head, and the rough going value of everything on the list. I made a point back then of never obsessing about one gun or another, because that would make it too easy to get sucked in on a bad deal. Just work the list, and get what I could find on a deal. In this particular case, it was on a table with a greybeard behind it, and the table contained a random jumbled assortment of the most unrelated items that you see one or two tables of at any given gun show. Quite often, those are the tables with true treasures. Things collected by someone who just bought whatever shiny caught his eye on any given day, as opposed to a professional dealer or someone with a focused collection, and no real sense of what he truly has.
Mildly amusing side story to that purchase. After I bought it, I bumped into Martin (aka: Corwyn Arms), to see if he had anything interesting I could haggle him down on. When he saw the FR7, and the shape it was in, he asked where the heck I'd found it, and how much it had set me back. When I told him, he left his tables in the hands of his dad, and bolted across the show to the fellow I'd bought the FR7 off of, and promptly bought the fellow's entire table. Needless to say, Martin did better off that show than I did, or the greybeard I'd bought the rifle from. That man had an uncanny sense of what he could turn over for a profit. That's a dealer I miss buying from, he was always fun to talk to, and knew how to turn a buck without being greedy about it.
