I have a FrankenFAL.
For you non-FAL types, that means an FN-FAL type rifle built out of miscellaneous parts.
Mine is an STG-58 kit from Austria, with an Imbel receiver from South America, and the required 10 US-made parts because of the idiotic import ban......oops, I mean wise initiative to keep our streets safe.............
Anyway, I built my FAL back when I was still very poor.
Instead of being "very poor" now I am merely poor, and have added to my major caliber semi-auto collection. I've gotten much better, more accurate rifles.
My FrankenFAL has always frustrated me.
I've had to put the extra-long buttstock on it, because of my extra long hairy ape-arms.
I tried a SUIT scope, but the darn thing kept smacking me in the head because of my long ape-arms. I sold it over on FALFiles.
I had to get a different front sight because with the old one, I was about three feet high at 100 yards.
I'm still high at 100 yards, but only about 13 inches, not the three feet any more.
After all this effort, my FrankenFAL is still not as accurate as I'd like it to be.
From all my research over at FALfiles.com (where I put in over 1000 posts before moving to THR) my FrankenFAL will never get much more accurate without my spending lots and lots and lots more money....which I am unwilling to do.
So, following, are some pics of me at the range, trying to come to terms with the limitations of my FrankenFAL, and deciding that for what it is, and what it cost me, it really isn't that bad.
Heck, it's a "battle rifle." It's not a precision rifle. It's not even my M1A with the Kreiger barrel and the glass bedding job.
It's just my FrankenFAL.
Following are pics of my groups. I was using South African military surplus ball ammo.
All targets were shot off a bench using a six o'clock hold on the bullseye.
Even with the new tall front sight, this thing is 13 inches high at 100, and about three feet high at 300 yards, even with the rear sight slid down to the lowest 200 meter setting.
First, 100 yard group.
For you non-FAL types, that means an FN-FAL type rifle built out of miscellaneous parts.
Mine is an STG-58 kit from Austria, with an Imbel receiver from South America, and the required 10 US-made parts because of the idiotic import ban......oops, I mean wise initiative to keep our streets safe.............
Anyway, I built my FAL back when I was still very poor.
Instead of being "very poor" now I am merely poor, and have added to my major caliber semi-auto collection. I've gotten much better, more accurate rifles.
My FrankenFAL has always frustrated me.
I've had to put the extra-long buttstock on it, because of my extra long hairy ape-arms.
I tried a SUIT scope, but the darn thing kept smacking me in the head because of my long ape-arms. I sold it over on FALFiles.
I had to get a different front sight because with the old one, I was about three feet high at 100 yards.
I'm still high at 100 yards, but only about 13 inches, not the three feet any more.
After all this effort, my FrankenFAL is still not as accurate as I'd like it to be.
From all my research over at FALfiles.com (where I put in over 1000 posts before moving to THR) my FrankenFAL will never get much more accurate without my spending lots and lots and lots more money....which I am unwilling to do.
So, following, are some pics of me at the range, trying to come to terms with the limitations of my FrankenFAL, and deciding that for what it is, and what it cost me, it really isn't that bad.
Heck, it's a "battle rifle." It's not a precision rifle. It's not even my M1A with the Kreiger barrel and the glass bedding job.
It's just my FrankenFAL.
Following are pics of my groups. I was using South African military surplus ball ammo.
All targets were shot off a bench using a six o'clock hold on the bullseye.
Even with the new tall front sight, this thing is 13 inches high at 100, and about three feet high at 300 yards, even with the rear sight slid down to the lowest 200 meter setting.
First, 100 yard group.
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