FN FAL/STG58 Clean, Oil, Inspect: Anvil 118
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Probably the simplest rifle caliber battle rifle in existence. NOT a tutorial...we show what you need to learn, not how to do . Cannot perform at this level? Do NOT attempt.
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Was issued my first one in 1976, on the third day of basic training with the SADF. Technical Services Corps. Thanks for all the work you guys put into the videos.
I was born that year. 😁
As a British Soldier who started off in the 80's carried the Brit version of this known as the SLR, which had a few improvements, no last round hold open, automatically folding cocking handle, a better mag release and flash eliminator, sand clearing cuts on the bolt carrier, and semi auto only as using this beast at full auto isnt really controllable freehand, for a number of years before the L85 came in, our SLRs had a 12 position regulator and mine used to like running on setting 7 - on field stripping the hand guards were not removed unless directed to do so, but gas parts the piston plug and spring were always removed as part of daily cleaning, the gas parts were not lubricated heavily unless the weapon had been submerged, or was going into long term storage but were kept dry to reduce smoke on firing, one quirk I remember was that when cleaning the weapon it had a chance to shift zero slightly when breaking the action open using the takedown lever to clean it, for that reason during the leadup to shooting in competitions it was expressly forbidden to break the rifle open but instead to clean it as best you could through the open breach locked back with the weapons holdopen, without opening the action using the take down lever, unlike the weapon that replaced it, stoppages were few, what you hit with it didnt want to get back up to play and things didnt fall off of it on a run - a very solid weapon that we even used as a make shift step between 2 soldiers to vault everyone else over hazzards, cant do that with the l85 without breaking it..
Couldnt agree more fantastic weapon far superior to the SA80 series , used it in Regt and Div competitions ,never broken once zeroed for competition , double aperture rear sight and carbide lamp to blacken the sights
One thing we never did in Canada was break the gun to remove the carriage and bolt as this often would require sighting in the gun, all we ever did was remove gas plug, piston and spring , clean and a very light lube of oil, to much and you get it in the eye
I was an officer doing my military service in the Belgian army in '81- '82. My FAL was a little bit different than this model. It had a wooden stock and wooden front grips. The gas tube was different, it was a full tube. My FAL came without the bipod.
The cut tube is byproduct from the guns being imported into the us as parts kits. One of the reasons the tube is cut is when companies like century arms and early on DSarms were reproducing fals using parts kits,there were issues with aligning the gas blocks and piston tube with new manufactured receivers. Main issue with it was that the if the block wasn’t perfectly aligned the piston would bind in the tube, so the simplist thing they could do was cut the piston tube and allow for a looser tolerance in the alignment between the gas block and the receiver
I have what is called a G1 FAL it was the first military gun that Germany was allowed to have after WW2. Mine also has wood furniture except for the front and it has a bypod.
Is it a FALO ?
It looks very similar to the .British army version of the FN FAL the L1A1 the most squaddie proof self loading rifle the British army ever have had !
Same in Australia
I’m not sure if any random viewer has ever said this to you Mark, but I absolutely appreciate every second of your content. As the average ignoramus gun owner, I will never hold in my hands half of the “exotic” guns that you showcase, but I am still infatuated with your content. Every second of it.
It's why we make them....just sayin
“Minimum amount of gun you can spray paint around a .308 cartridge and get away with it.” High praise for “the Right Arm of the Free World.”
Superb engineering,so not American. Nobody ever called anything American "free arm of any thing". McDonald does not count.
its a great gun idc what some nerd thinks of it
Fascinating. I love the new format Mark and Bruno!
Was my partner for many years of Bush warfare in Africa and what I relied on in the mountains of Afghanistan. I would not have chosen a different weapon.
Was trained on it,and loved the feeling of invincibility it provided.
Carried one with Australian troops during four tours of Vietnam. The FAL was the mans axe. Stone reliable, only had one barrel replacement and it was very accurate and heavy hitting with the 7.62 round which was common to the M60 which was the section automatic weapon. None of those pissy little 5.56 rounds. It never had stoppages and could be stripped and cleaned in 10 minutes with no special tools.
Carried one for years as a cadet and later Australian Army. Absolutely loved it,even it was a wee bit long for rainforest work. Best rifle I ever had access to as a Digger
I have an original Aussie SLR, so I absolutely see where you come from :D
I snickered at the dust collector.
Snickers,ha,Mars bar.
Me too.
How ya doin', Pat? How cold is it out there? We got about 8 feet up on the mountains over here the other day, but I know it's getting cold as hell out in your neck of the woods.
@@TheGeekiestGuy 6 degrees here. No snow. I spent 7 hours staring at trees waiting on deer that never showed up. 🤣🤣🤣
@@PatRMG Man. That's a long time staring at trees.😆 I think that means you'll bag a big one the next time you go out. Stay warm, brother. I look forward to some hunting content. 🤙🏾
Great episode Mark!
The FN FAL was my first real service rifle in 1993 and I've got the opportunity to own a STG58 years later.. (still have)
I've been a 3th echelon weapon mechanic in the Dutch army and did see them phase out to Canadian clone black rifles.. anyways..
About 1200 Dutch FN FAL's were 'Markmans' rifles equiped with the AI62 'Richt-Recht' scope (meaning Aim-Straight) build by Artillerie Inrichtingen and Holland Signaal optics.
These were designed to 800-900 meter for a full body target (x4.2 magnification)
For this distance the gastap was also set to G (grenade) wich made it a straight pull rifle
The full-auto version of th FAL was the FALO who had a thicker barrel and 30 round magazines.
The difference between FN FAL and STG58 is that the STG58 was licenced to Steyr, an Austrian weaponmanufacturer as Austria was (and is) no NATO member but an ally.
Steyr choose higher quality materials and closer tolerances than FN, for the doctrine that all men got their service rifle back home after training so the Austrians could set up town militia's instead of a complete regular army. This makes it possible to interchange STG and FN parts but not with the Brittish L1A1.
The Austrains choose the wirecutter instead of the NATO bayonetmount, their fillosophy was if the enemy is running up the mountain, something has gone wrong if you needed a bayonet..
Now a thing i noticed with the gastube:
The holes in the gasstube are ventholes at the end of the stroke of the piston, not oil holes.
It prevented gasses to be blownback in the face of te person shooting it, the gastube was originally designed to cover the pistonrod competely but this one seems to be cut in a phase of life.
It has probably been dented (hence the cut part) to get it operating again. crude, but effective.
Finally, any FAL / STG58 can be modded to full auto by removing the fireselector.. completely unhandable but we had fun with blanks that way, every infantrygroop could create 4 MG nests..
I used this rifle( the S.L.R. VERSION)in the british army for more than 15 years,more than half my military career.Never had a misfire,nor a stoppage,never let me down,especially when I really needed it,and it is the man-stopper ne plus ultra of combat semi-autos.There will never be a better rifle,but thats just me,just do the maintainance,good to go.
I carried the SLR during my Army Reserve time in Aus. Won two trophies with this rifle and just love it to death. I remember an old friend of mine, sadly departed, telling of his time in Vietnam and the Yanks refering to the Aussie SLR as "those god damn cannons". I am a firm believer that civies don't need assault weapons but I would love to own my old SLR.
One of my favorite battle rifles and so I was enjoying the description, dive inside and demonstration
Many years ago in Canada, in Army Cadets we started on Lee Enfield 22s then 303s and if you could shoot well you got upgraded to the FN, and when you are 14 years old and shooting one on a six hundred yard mechanical range, well it just does not get any better. Thanks for the memory
My personal weapon when I did my conscription time in the Belgian army 1984-1985. No wonder it is still used in militia around the world today! Damn fine rifle ! The best!
Two uploads today? Legendary work! 👍
Same one twice. Software snafu mandated pulling down and reposting.
@@marknovak8255 Ducking Autocorrupt software.
@@marknovak8255 Oh? Fair enough! The other notification I got was about a Winchester, I think. But hey, glad it all got sorted in the end! 🤣👍
I'd argure it "not being a very sophisticated gun". It's well thought out, as you said. It's pure and not overengineered. To me that is more sophisticated than running a ton of extra unnecessary parts had proper engineering been done.
I completely agree
As a Turkish soldier, I shot a lot with the FN FAL 58. The name of this infantry rifle in the Turkish Army was G-1. Thank you, Master Mark
Last real high quality military rifle ever made.
Yep
This is the best tour of the FN/FAL on the UberWeb. And it's hosted by the best and most qualified tour guide. Thank you Mr. Novak.
Watching these videos is like attending a college course. The amount of information given is terrific, and delivered in a pleasant, understandable fashion. I feel smarter every time I see one.
I carried one of those during my training at the Military Academy... super simple to field strip and its 7,62 proyectile won´t spare whoever stands in front of it... super accurate shot even though your piece is 50 years old and had been beaten the hell up by previous and multiple generation of Cadets.... good times!
In my time at the Dutch Airforce, way back early nineties, I had the automatic FAL, the FALO. I had to choose between the FN MAG or the FN FALO, well I didn't want to drag that heavy MAG all day long, so choice was made quick. Great gun! And this is a serious indepth video about the internals of a FAL thank you for that..
Owned a 1970 production Herstal factory FN FAL for a long time.
Matching number rifle with timber stock and plastic grip and hand guard.
I personally think they are the most attractive battle rifle ever built.
Our Australian built SLR from Lithgow NSW is a true treasure and highly suaugt after.
Great video Mark. Thanks.
Thanks Mark for all the videos and the work that you do. I have watched your content for a long time, now that i have been taking gunsmithing classes from SDI I use your content a lot more!
Field stripping included removing the gas piston in the Dutch army. I've never seen a FAL like you showed with such a short gas tube which exposes the gaspiston and spring.
I really like your videos, please keep them coming Mark.
Oh man I've been waiting for something like this. I got one of these like 15 years ago for $900 and its still one of my favorite rifles to shoot. It has the green DSA furniture and I pulled the bipod off and it balances so much better. Unfortunately I broke the bipod in the process as one of the bolts was seized so listen to Mark about needing 3 people to do it, but thankfully I am not going to put it back anyway. Glad to see a deeper dive on the gas system as mine might start needed some more TLC in the future. I keep my gas regulator on 5 and it has been absolutely reliable. Its cycled everything from cheap-shit surplus, dirty ass steel case, and the standard Federal M80C which is its favorite.
Merry Christmas, Mark, crew, and Family.
Back in the day, field strip for the SLR (UK version with no auto) included the gas regulator plug and gas piston removal. These coked up and prevented good operation. If it gets really coked you can cut of the gas completely on the front plug (also used for grenade launch) and then run it as a single load and then re-cock, until you had time for a clean. The SLR did not have a bipod (shame)
What this is, is one of the greatest military rifles ever designed.
You have the gas setting at 8:20 correct. Per FN. One turn out from full gas, empty magazine, load one round in the breach at a time and fire. You do this while adjusting the system closed until the bolt locks bakc on the empty magazine. Then close the system two more clicks to slightly overgas the system for reliability.
This has got to be the most scholarly, hands-on technical firearm related channel on the Tube. Merry Christmas to Mark and one and all!
When I was doing my Territorial Army training with the New Zezland Army way back in 1974, we were taught to always take the gas plug out first, as you could still use (manually cocking) the weapon, ours were refered to as SLR's Self Loading Rife, even today I could still strip one down, it was a damn good rife.
Fellow Kiwi. TF in 94. 99th intake. Trained on Styre, sfmg 5WWCT Wanganui
@@russcole5685 Hi Russ, I was in 6th TFV intake in 1974, that was after Norman Kirks Labour Govt got in and dropped CMT, I trained with the grest SLR, M16, Sterling SMG, and the original Bren Gun, but give me the SLR any day, cheers mate and Happy New Year.
Dit lijkt op de Nederlandse uitvoering, het metalen voorhout met de voorsteunen in mijn diensttijd 1970/1977 bij de Nederlandse marine was de kolf hout. Later bij de nationale reserve 1980/1985 kreeg ik een Fal met kunststof kolf en kunstof voorhout zonder steunen ook de vlamdemper/schiettap/bajonethouder was een typisch geval. Ook kunstofkolf en metalen voorhout zonder steunen kwam voor.
As a wannabe gunsmith I just love this channel. What a wealth of knowledge thus man has...
Old armourer here again . The SLR was often used in FULL AUTOMATIC mode by our brave lads . And against all of the rule because the SLR was made to be single shot only , but on exercise firing blank rounds the lads would jam the trigger sear up using a piece of match stick . That allowed it to fire full automatic only .
@Back In The Day 2 oh its true alright :}
"Climb like a homesick angel", love that line
I’ve had my STG 58 for around 30 years and this is the first time I’ve seen an in depth explanation of the rifle. It’s my second. Built from parts on an Imbel receiver. My first had a headspace problem. My gunsmith couldn’t figure it out. I sold to a guy who felt he could. Has a combo flash hider / wire cutter. One of my favorite rifles.
13 years old was given my first class with the FAL and was set to shoot it.... PRONE!! i had already sooted some M1 carbine and colt 45s,,but good lord i was not ready for the 308 in prone position ... needles to say a life changing experience LOL !! CHEERS!!
Thanks for the video, It brings back memories. I carried the Canadian version of this weapon for many years. FN C-1, 7.62 mm. Very reliable, as long as you keep the gas plug, and piston clean. Full auto version, with the bipod, was the FN C-2 with a heavier barrel, and an full auto.
It brings some good old memories from my service in the Dutch army.
It was not a very accurate weapun but it was very extreme reliable.
I personally liked the fact that after a shot the gun did not kick up.
After specialisation i served 4 years with the HK SPG-1
I hope you will get your hands on such a weapon just to show us the works.
Glad Mark is part of our Fraternity. Merry X.mas Brother
I have Stg58 and it is one of my best guns, Awesome coolness.
Damn pal, you are such an educator and to think you offer these videos to the You Tube audience so often...what's not to love?
That head spacing system is astoundingly simple, loved this breakdown of one of the best rifle's ever made
Merry Christmas Mark. Thank you for sharing yourself and your knowledge with us.
And to your family and team!
How I miss my SLR L1A1,, Merry Christmas Mark from an old Sapper in the land down under
Akin to my weekly sunday sermon, the lessons will never have the length required. Thanks mark
Thank you sir for reminding me to my service rifle 50 years ago in the Austrian army.
Was a pleasure to shoot this gun, very accurate but heavy. Wish I could own a Steyr Mannlicher produced, but they were built with "happy switch" and are illegal in Austria.
Happy Christmas
The FAL holds a special place in my heart. The US really should have adopted it.
If the process of finding a replacement for the Garand rifle had been politics free the FAL would have been the follow on rifle to the Garand not the M1a. The M1a is an excellent rifle but the FAL was simply the better battle rifle. The essential study guide for the FAL person is the FAL Rifle Classic Edition as its all three volumes put into one big book but hard to find these days.
Saive was one smart guy!
As John Browning realized.
I've always wanted a Fal & now I want one more!
Great work as always Sir!
Cigar smoke and gunpowder. Thanks for the detailed show and tell for this beauty!!
As one that actually used a STG 58 on two continents, I dare say it was a very reliable gun.
The STG 58 has a fire selector so one can use it as AR (in a pinch).
The magazines where issued with the rifle (4 - 7, depending where one served) and extremely durable.
Fed every .308 ammo that was on hand. Often from very dubious sources.
Great show, as always!
I've long owned a semi-only FAL and love it. It doesn't punish my shoulder. The one occasion where I fired a FAL on full auto, my impression was it's not as bad as the M-14 in this mode and not as good as the M16. I honestly could not see any reason for having this feature except to make a lot of noise and waste ammo. Maybe there are times when this is the best strategy, so I'll defer to others with more practical field experience.
Field stripping for cleaning also includes removing the gas plug and piston and piston return spring.
What a gem, nice piece of kit.... Back in the 90's when they were dumping TONS of FAL inch and metric kits me and a buddy built, well lots... On Imbel receivers... We did not compromise,,, Stripped them ALL to every single screw and spring, sandblasted, had a hot parkerizing set up... Kept for myself one of the best kits, a 1969 Austrian STG58, still my favorite rifle in my collection. When my father comes to visit and we go to the range he always asks to take the FAL...Ive shot a FAL folder, and an HK91 folder, they're kinda brutal,,, LOL...
Absolutely love my FAL, probably my favorite rifle. Not the best at anything, but just somehow really good in every way. So lean, svelte, and simple. Ergonomics were decades ahead of their time. Recoil is relatively mild given the cartridge and the rifle's the dimensions, with less bounce than an M14. I don't know what it is about them because they're certainly not the most accurate, but they just feel good in the hands, so balanced.
Lucky to own two, one a registered machine gun. Fell in love with when I was 13. My all time favorite rifle.
Well done Mark. Thank you and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your viewers.
Loved the FN, used it in the 90's in the Irish reserve army, we had grenade sites on our versions where field stripping would include taking out the gas plug and piston out. We had different varients of the FAL with older wood grip ones to newer ones similar to the Imbel look, (I reckon at least 3-4 variations between sights/stock shape/materials/handrails/piston plug, body locking lever.
They all (that I saw) had an automatic setting on the fire selector switch,. I had planned on trying to licence a civilian version of the rifle but gun laws in Ireland and all the hoops you have to jump through made it too difficult so I ended up with a .17HMR CZ 452 rimfire rifle in the end and had to settle for airsoft versions of the FN/L1A1 just to look at :-)
Also in Ireland the army also had training kits where they would insert a barrel sleeve into the rifle and magazines to temporarily convert it to a .22LR this let recruits fire the gun in an indoor range without having to travel to the open range as a lot of barracks were within towns and when you were in the reserves it was more or less like being in the boy scouts but they let you use guns instead of pocket knives.
Thank You for peeling the onion in such a manner that the average tinkerer can grasp the lesson. Merry Merry Christmas Mr. Novak, Lord of the Vise, Master of the Bench, Fixer of Things that go Boom !!!
I’m forever jealous of this workshop! I wish I had this much space to do gunsmithing.
Being a Rhodesian Army veteran, I have shot a few things with those!
.....a few "things". 😄 "things" might be a certain collectivist group? Rhodesians never die!
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and to your family, Mark. The FAL in semi auto served the Australian army very well throughout the Vietnamese war. To me, the silhouette represents the weapon of the Cold War.
Thanks for the video and humor. Been a FAL owner/user for many years. A Hunka Hunka rifle. Almost as good as G3. Even less parts.
I feel like I just stayed at a Holiday Inn Express for FAL’s.
I picked up one of these in the eighties when I couldn't afford an M-14 and have really enjoyed it. I've got several now in several different configurations, at one time it was the main battle rifle for some 90 different western Nations. It remains my favorite because it's so easy to operate, clean and is dead reliable. The US almost adopted it for our own battle rifle at the time the AR was adopted. Thanks for showcasing it! John McClain, GySgt, USMC, ret.
Great video Mark.
I have a South African marked one that was used by the Rhodesian Army.
Matching SA serial numbers and matching Rhodesian Army serial numbers too.
Excellent shooting rifle.
I had a FN made one for years and it was always breaking bipod parts.
Just scored 3 stg58 part kits for the price of a ruger 10/22! Very helpful coincidence!
From where. Lucky bastard.
@0:30 What a great line, the minimum amount of gun you can spray paint over the top of a .308 cartridge and get away with it!
Yes, loved it!
In the 1990s when we were assembling FAL kits using new receivers, we did not have any gauge rods. As I recall, we put a stripped bolt in the rifle on a go gauge, then measured the gap in the receiver where the wedge block fits, then repeated the process with a no-go gauge. From these measurements we picked what we considered the most likely wedge to work and hammered it in place, then checked the chamber again with a stripped bolt and both gauges. If both gauges worked correctly, we finished assembling the rifle. If the go gauge didn't go, we removed the wedge block and replaced it with the next smaller block. If the no-go gauge did go, we removed the wedge block and replaced it with the next larger block. We usually got it right on the first or second try.
That's how I remember it also. I just cheated and made the rods to make measuring easier.
Nice thing about carrying a C1 was no bipod, that was on the C2. Been issued both during my time in the CAF back in the 80's and yes I miss them.
Hiring a gunsmith of Mark's calibre to clean your gun is such a flex...
As a one time user of the SLR, field stripping was top cover, bolt carrier and bolt. Gas plug, piston & spring. Next level was removing the firing pin and extractor, which could be done with a round. I never split the rifle in two. A great weapon, and never a need to shoot someone twice with the thing.
As pieces of engineering the FAL is one of my favorites, Only as complicated as it needed to be, robust but refined. and they're not ugly either. I've never used one but I've spoken to a lot of guys that have humped SLRs across the countryside for days, and apparently they ain't light, but they all said that they'd still rather have one over almost anything else. High praise from a squaddie!
I love this rifle. I have a DSA SA-58 that is a joy to shoot. Someday I hope to have an original FN. Thanks Mike.
AKA the right arm of the free world, FNFAL. The original caliber was a little less than the .308, it was made to run the 308 to be NATO compliant. It was designed for a "280" cartridge, of the top of my head. Something like 69 countries adopted it and was manufactured by something like 11 of them. There were numerous variants produce in both inch and metric(Mark showed a metric) A metric magazine could be used in an inch pattern but not the other way around. They are great rifles still being made today! (My apologies for not having actual numbers, I would have to get my book "The FNFAL Rifle" out and read it again.)
Close, but no Cigar.. it was originally chambered in 7.92 Kurtz. (7,92x33). There were a few made in .280/30. I think Jonathan has one at Leeds. It is a credit to Saive's design that they were able to wind it up to take 7.62x51 although it kicked like a mule and eventually stretched the recievers. But a brilliant rifle.. I carried the L1A1 SLR for most of my military career and it served me very well (apart from drilling a hole in my specs..!)
@@felixthecat265 Yeah, I knew I was only close, it's been 20 years since I was all into the FALs LOL. I have a G1 that I STILL need to build, that's what happens when your GS shop gets busy and you loose your free time lol. OH well, 20 years later and I pulled it all out the other day thinking "get a cpl more projects knocked out and I can build this thing"! I believe I have everything minus an assortment of headspace shoulders, I have one, maybe I will get lucky (But I think I found a source for those too!) Remember when kits were cheap annnd complete!?!?!? AH the days LOL
@@tomhubbard353 Oh Yes.. for sure! We are not allowed semi auto in UK these days, so I cannot go back to my old L1A1 SLR! I have to concentrate on older designs.. I am building a Baker from a TRS parts kit at the moment!
Up here in Canada, many of our forces members were up set when they had to turn in their FNs.
Just thought about it now. If there ever was a war up here, the 7.62 NATO might be better. Just like in the dessert with the wide open spaces, the extra range range over a 5.56 might be a good thing.
I haven't owned any of the firearms from any of the videos of yours that I've watched, but I've learned a ton from watching and really appreciate the education!
This is what true engineering is about, strip out the fluff and bs and keep what is necessary and needed.
As a person who used it as a service rifle, we also took the gas plug off and cleaned the piston, always left hand rail on and never took off the lower
Best mechanical explanation of the FAL yet. Thank you sir.
Let me say, having owned many battle rifles, this is my absolute favorite.
I have always loved the reputation of this rifle and purchased one several years ago and it just a joy to shoot. Yes it is heavy, is it accurate, yes, would I carry it instead of an AR, yes! Love this gun and thanks for the deep dive into it!
Just as I finished watching this video, one came to me by a loyal costumer. Thank you Chief!
Son... OUTSTANDING job!.... I was always partial to FN FAL and HK G3 in .308.. and you Sir? ... have done excellent job to show guts of these weapons... Thank you... Greets from Pensacola, FL...
That headspace block, it took me a second to understand why it was there until the end of the explanation. What a crazy simple firearm
When I was young and poor, I took a chance and bought an STG58 on the cheap that had not been assembled correctly and had a couple of mismatched parts. As Mark points out, these rifles are easy to service. Used it as my go to rifle for years since it was reliable, fast, and accurate.
Have them in Peru too. Replaced the FN 1935 short rifle Mausers & M-1 Garands in the late '50s. 1st. ones had wood furniture and auto fire switch and later plastic.
Still in service for the plain infantry along with the 5.56 Galils that have replaced them in most field use and combat. Navy ones look neat but those that were issued to the Army troops we had to help train for inter-forces shooting matches were quite beaten, to the point of having to assemble 6 decently performing rifles (But not good lookers) out of 10. In contrast those from the Navy team were still very neat. Heavy and a tad cumbersome specially for jungle use but still reliable, tough hard hitters!
Other modes we had were the folding stock "Para-FALs" and a heavier barreled version with bipod intended as an squad automatic rifle we called FAP (P stands for Pesado or heavy).
FN/FAL is one of 2 Rifles I wish I’d never sold, the other was a .308win model 99 Savage. Those were perhaps two of the sweetest shooting, accurate, best handling and feeling Rifles I ever had the pleasure to own that were very inexpensive when I acquired them. For a Rifle originally designed for the .280 cartridge the FN/FAL handled the 7.62X51 just fine. I’ve shot some made by other companies that were cobbled together from inferior parts that were absolutely junk but the FN made rifle was very good.
Greatest battle-rifle of all time.
Not that model. Been 30 yrs ples, but I could still disassemble, clean and reassemble it blindfolded. Damn fine front line weapon loved it hated it but glad we had that over anything else
In the Canadian Armed Forces, we had the C1 and C2 variants. The C1 was the standard battle rifle (semi auto). The C2 was the support weapon, semi and full auto, we never fired them on full auto unless we were prone with the bi-pod down. Very controllable firing bursts and using 30 round mags.
Oz only had the semi. (But a matchstick made a big difference).
I've have a German STG58 by Steyr and when I received it many years ago it was brand new. To this day it has had hundreds of rounds through it and has never failed at any time in those years no matter what ammo was used. Simple and a beautiful rifle. German quality at it's finest. I'd never part with it.
That would be an Austrian rifle 😉
Wrf has that got to do with FB FAL?
@@samrodian919 Steyr produced them in license from FN and STG58 is the austrian designation for this as it's standard issue rifle between 1958 and 1977.
(Although there are still some in service for presentation purposes to this day. So when there's a military guard standing at the airport for a foreign head of state, they still have the STG-58 in their hands. The AUG is way shorter, and so you can't hold the barrel while the rifle stands on the ground next to you.)
Learning more about the FAL really tells me how dumb the officers were in US Army procurement in the 50’s.
Nice to see my army's old service rifle.
Best Fal variant ever made. Love my stg’s.
The FAL was chosen ! but failed the test 2 times , the AR platforms barrel exploded and seriously injured 4 soldiers, the 1950s officers didn’t have a choice.
@@MegaRiffraff they chose the m14 over the FAL. That was a mistake.
@@helipilotuh1 If you had any understanding that of all the M-14's pulled from long term storage for 'sandbox' deployment in the last 20-yrs. that the percentage out of spec. is so tiny, it doesn't bear mentioning. They (the M-14) aren't a perfect weapons platform, far from it. But also far from garbage, unless you think the SEAL teams desire a garbage weapon.
I had the pleasure of having one as my personal weapon during my time in the army. Although I never had a good opportunity to compare it with anything else I liked it and I was impressed by its power.
Love the FN-FAL. Built a few from kits. Now if I can find another Imbel receiver…
Former Dutch weapon mechanic here, I used to have 84 of these in our Cie's weapon bunker.
How is this channel not more popular?
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I really enjoy your channel. Thank you for delving into this aspect of firearms. I love seeing watermelons destroyed as much as the next guy but this rounds out the needs of a firearms enthusiast. Merry Christmas.
Recently picked up the DS Arms Hebrew Hammer. This video was very helpful in understanding more about this great rifle.
I always look forward to, and enjoy, your videos and mannerism. Thank you!