Keith
Member
After approximately 18 months, I can finally call my Build-a-FAL project finished! Most of that 18 months was entirely due to my own procrastination. I basically did this in installments. First, I ordered the kit from DSA and threw away the awful plastic furniture and refinished the original Walnut, which they'd included.
Then I dinked around for an awful long time before ordering the reciever. More dinking around till I got the rifle assembled around that. First tests revealed a weak gas system, which is typical of these old G1 kits. Back in the closet till I FINALLY drilled out the gas port to the proper size (7/64ths).
Recipe as follows:
1 Refinished G1 kit from dsarms: $179
1 Coonan Arms Reciever from FAC: $249
1 locking shoulder: $12
A lot of sweat, research and fun.
Result: A really fun gun that looks like it just came off the factory floor in Belgium. It won't look that way for long because I have about 4000 rounds of surplus NATO ammo to blast away!
After a couple of last minute gas problems that have spoiled my fun for the last month or two, I finally opened up the gas port (which I should have done in the first place) and got in running flawlessly today. Burned up about 200 rounds drilling various targets of opportunity on the beach. A blast!
This rifle is an absolute joy to shoot!
Then I dinked around for an awful long time before ordering the reciever. More dinking around till I got the rifle assembled around that. First tests revealed a weak gas system, which is typical of these old G1 kits. Back in the closet till I FINALLY drilled out the gas port to the proper size (7/64ths).
Recipe as follows:
1 Refinished G1 kit from dsarms: $179
1 Coonan Arms Reciever from FAC: $249
1 locking shoulder: $12
A lot of sweat, research and fun.
Result: A really fun gun that looks like it just came off the factory floor in Belgium. It won't look that way for long because I have about 4000 rounds of surplus NATO ammo to blast away!
After a couple of last minute gas problems that have spoiled my fun for the last month or two, I finally opened up the gas port (which I should have done in the first place) and got in running flawlessly today. Burned up about 200 rounds drilling various targets of opportunity on the beach. A blast!
This rifle is an absolute joy to shoot!