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Re: Straightpull FAL valuation?
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 1:16 am
by HALODIN
I think I can just make out an enlarged mag release button but either way it doesn't matter.
desperatedan wrote:Yes I completely agree about the front end and I did think twice about posting the picture but the lower receiver is pure FAL and most of the upper may well be. Much as we might like to, unfotunately we can't ask the man himself for clarification given his current indisposition can we?
Re: Straightpull FAL valuation?
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 6:43 am
by bnz41
desperatedan wrote:bnz41 wrote:The T handles from ARB were never fitted to Fal rifles, he did not do the Fal. The UK spec Fal did not need another handle cycled fine just with the left side handle extended or standard.
The T handle did not work and neither did his rifles. IMO
He may not have done them in volume but he did do the odd FAL (and it is odd!) :)
Pic from ARB of a FAL based creation.
Picture is a rifle he built in .223 for his wife so he told me, it's a Fal lower/butt/grip with a Lithgow L1A1 upper/fore end/carry handle/fore sight etc. He built another in .22/250 look in the rack above .22/250 barrels.
Re: Straightpull FAL valuation?
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 10:48 am
by breacher
HALODIN wrote:Why you'd add a charging handle like that to an L1A1/FAL is beyond me. If you want a rifle that functions like an AR buy an AR.
I wish I could !!
Re: Straightpull FAL valuation?
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 12:56 pm
by HALODIN
They're cheaper than a FAL/L1A1 by quite a margin.
breacher wrote:I wish I could !!
Re: Straightpull FAL valuation?
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 1:16 pm
by breacher
But then again if we only went for firearms not adapted / made for UK law, we would have no LBP and a lot less rifles to choose from.
I think given the choice between a straight pull AR type rifle with "non iconic" charging handle and nothing at all, I will take what I can get.