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It's a .223 FAL built on a Williams Arms aluminum receiver by a guy who goes by the handle "Meeper" over at the FALfiles. The Williams Arms "Combat Elite" alloy receivers were pipe bombs in .308 because the locking lugs on a FAL mate up with recesses in the receiver. In the .308 version, every shot would increase the headspace slightly until, somewhere around 200 rounds later, BAM!
.223 has a lot less boltface thrust and, while one assumes it would eventually start opening the headspace, too, I'd heard reports of 7k+ rounds when I bought this one back in '02. It had a DSA alloy lower, Williams alloy upper, Galil .223 barrel, and even a Volunteer Ordnance Works alloy folding charging handle. Weighed slightly less than 7lbs empty.
It was interesting, but a pain to get the gas system dialed in, and I eventually sold it. But not before Oleg took pictures!
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| Rob Pincus with flyweight FAL. Photo by Oleg Volk. |
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It is a plastic (and therefore undetectable) AR-46 with an infinite capacity magazine klip with a hidden shoulder thing that goes up.
Did I win a prize?
Is that your aluminum .223 FAL?
Imbel 5.56 FAL. Not sure if the semi-auto version has a different name, but the 'real' one is the MD2.
If that's yours, honestly I didn't think there were any in the U.S.
Wow. You are one lucky person.
Magpul HK
This...This is an espresso machine.
No, no wait. It's a snow cone maker.
TBG
SA57? that would be the lessor of an SA58 AKA FAL.
Seeing a STANAG 5.56 mag in a FAL makes my soul hurt.
Agree, caleb.
Drive a stake through that AR-15 mag, and rechamber in God's caliber.
Looks like a Red Rock Arms ATR-1 .223 FAL.
Do I win a cookie?
And Merry Christmas to you and Bobbi and the cats..
Kristopher B.,
"Drive a stake through that AR-15 mag, and rechamber in God's caliber."
If that FAL were chambere in .308, it would blow up and kill you.
That's a hint. ;)
Is nifty, but looks nekked without a proper flash hider.
.22LR practice FAL?
Al-FAL in 5.56?
If that FAL were chambered in .308, it would blow up and kill you.
In that case, it must be an airsoft.
Ruger .17hmr with a hidden rotary magazine?
Season's greetings to all, and Tam, congrats on your electric rifle. I suggest a good supply of extension cords...
Curved Magazine
chambered for 7.62 x 39 maybe?
Regards GKT
I seem to recall this discussion about this rifle in person - Alloy FAL receivers that will stand up to 5.56 pressures, but not .308 Win.
I seem to recall it's a light rifle!
The Williams Arms "Combat Elite" alloy receivers ... in .308 ..."
I understand that these rifles came with an undocumented instantaneous disassembly feature that occurred when 200 rounds had been fired.
I remember those. I *almost* bought a receiver, but didn't do it before the Ka Blooey reports surfaced.
Man, the Fal Fires forum was snakebit in a lot of ways. There was the whole WAC disaster, and the group buy on kits run by the board that went bad after a tornado destroyed the warehouse, and a couple other things I forget now.
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