My gun dealer has a real deal FN FAL and he’s asking 2700 for it.
I’m tempted to throw the cash at him, but I wanted to make sure thats not an exorbitant price.
Hoping the M4C FAL community could give me some direction on the issue.
looks nearly identical to this one, except i dont believe its a “match” and the one im being offered has a different muzzle break / flash hider?
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=247840746
That’s actually a fair price for a real Belgian FN FAL 50:00.
Most of them have the shorter Belgian combo grenade launcher/flash suppressor/muzzle brake device, as pictured on my R1 clone.
wow. are they really that pricey? i love the gun, but i don’t know that i would spend that much on one.
SAR-48 and 4800 are going to be way cheaper options for a factory made FAL.
Be aware that the 80s import FN semi autos are investment cast receivers.
DSA and the Springfield 80s imports are forged.
IIRC, they were something like $1800.00 when they were imported during the 80s. This at a time when a Colt AR15 ran about $300 and a HK 91 was about $450.
As long as they do it right, and I have no reason to think that Fabrique Nationale didn’t do it right, there’s no real issue.
I don’t disagree, just mentioned it. Might be a non issue, but I tend to prefer forged. I built and Imbel on Imbel and it came out rather nice.
Over the long haul cast Belgian receivers are more durable both in the hi power and FAL. The only US made receivers I’ve seen that were the equal of genuine foreign receivers were the milled Arsenal Inc AK receivers. DSA’s receivers are usually up to factory standards, but they screw a lot of them up too, exceedingly difficult company to deal with customer service wise. DSA’s screw ups are largely a quality control issue. I’m sure the Belgians and Austrians made crap receivers, they just never left the plant. Imbel had great quality control, never heard of anyone getting a jacked up Imbel receiver. Honestly, DSA is getting a bit like Springfield Armory, original parts are running out and the replacements aren’t exactly up to snuff. A year or so ago someone at DSA had the brilliant idea of mixing inch and metric parts in STG58 bolt groups which resulted in a lot of rifles leaving the factory in an inoperable condition. The only DSA rifles I would look at would be older STG58’s and the Imbels built with original barrels.
But the military FN receivers were forged. Why would the semi auto cast receivers be better?
http://www.fnfal.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=314007&pagenumber=2
Casting produces a more consistent product, if done properly. Needless to say, a lot of people don’t do it right.
The FN Type 1 and Type 2 recivers were forged. The Type 3 was cast. All 3 receivers were manufactured for military contracts. The type 3 while cast is a heavier receiver with more steel and in fact the original type 1 receiver had some reported cracking issues.
I own both Type 1 and Type 3 rifles. Both are excellent.
Got a SAR-48 a few years back and consider myself quite lucky… Could have bought two of them and a case of 7.62 ammo for the cost of the FN here…
Interesting, I did not know that.
Correct. Type 1’s cracked[in high stress/ full auto applications]. Type 2’s were to fix that. Type 3’s were cast and had no lightening cuts to save money on machining costs.
Regarding the lightening cuts, I think FN finally realized they were detrimental to long term durability and weren’t saving much weight.