Fal metric magazines
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Strykervet
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Not from Sportsman's Guide or Royal Tiger Imports. They both sent junk, they both got them back.
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Check DSA, Sarco, and Century Arms. They all used to have mil surplus metrics. DSA had new too.
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DSA, out. Cheap/Dirt, out. Sarco, out. Brownells, out. Midway, out. Others are now suspect, since I have had two bait and switch scams this week. Need reliable, real-time now advice from someone who has bought and received in the last week or so.
Have a gunshow coming up this weekend. Plan on going there and hopefully finding some good ones decently priced and being done with all this. At least there I can pick and choose and won't be sold rust blindly.
I also think the big problem with finding them is all these other manufacturers that designed weapons without designing magazines, such as the RFB and RRA .308. What a lazy way out... Now that a run on magazines is happening, you can't find any.
That begs the question: why would you buy a weapon that your life depends on that was designed AROUND the magazine? Why not go the whole shortcut route and use surplus MG barrels? I'd rather have the weapon designed around the barrel than the magazine... The FAL was designed to keep the shooter in a low profile --not to use 20 rd. box magazines, that just followed the design (proof: try using a DSA 30rd. mag in the prone... you can't).
Have a gunshow coming up this weekend. Plan on going there and hopefully finding some good ones decently priced and being done with all this. At least there I can pick and choose and won't be sold rust blindly.
I also think the big problem with finding them is all these other manufacturers that designed weapons without designing magazines, such as the RFB and RRA .308. What a lazy way out... Now that a run on magazines is happening, you can't find any.
That begs the question: why would you buy a weapon that your life depends on that was designed AROUND the magazine? Why not go the whole shortcut route and use surplus MG barrels? I'd rather have the weapon designed around the barrel than the magazine... The FAL was designed to keep the shooter in a low profile --not to use 20 rd. box magazines, that just followed the design (proof: try using a DSA 30rd. mag in the prone... you can't).
Give these guys a call
http://palmettostatearmory.com/fn-fal.php
These are Korean...can't speak to their quality as I have never looked at any.
http://www.copesdistributing.net/pr...=3195&osCsid=8101fcd8324c47accd0026fae710db0c
Good luck
M
http://palmettostatearmory.com/fn-fal.php
These are Korean...can't speak to their quality as I have never looked at any.
http://www.copesdistributing.net/pr...=3195&osCsid=8101fcd8324c47accd0026fae710db0c
Good luck
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ILikeLead
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HorseSoldier
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Neither of those weapons has done tremendous business, sales wise, though I'm sure sales supporting them hasn't helped with the supply of FAL mags.
I think the bigger thing is that the well has just run dry on surplus FAL mags. Nobody has issued the thing for years, and quality surplus mags were a finite supply. Add in some craziness with the Obama scare(s) and such, and that was the tail end of FAL bubble that was really peaking back in the 90s.
Another CONEX full of them or something may turn up on the market here or there, but the future is going to be largely with new production . . . if someone can figure out a way to make quality FAL mags. (Magpul -- anytime you want to hop on that project . . .
)FALs were produced in HUGE quantities and used by what, like 50+ countries?
IMHO, it's only a matter of time before some importer brings in some stash from some foreign depot.
Since the barrel ban and the importation of receivers is not happening, plus the cost of 7.62 being high, the FAL boom has come and gone.
FALFiles guys are still all over it, however.
Everything in the firearms world moves in fits and starts when it comes to importation of product.
IMHO, it's only a matter of time before some importer brings in some stash from some foreign depot.
Since the barrel ban and the importation of receivers is not happening, plus the cost of 7.62 being high, the FAL boom has come and gone.
FALFiles guys are still all over it, however.
Everything in the firearms world moves in fits and starts when it comes to importation of product.
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Thanks guys. Does anyone have any experience ordering FAL magazines from What-a-Country and Palmetto State Armory? Would I get what is advertised? I saw those, W-a-C had good looking ones (but so did RTI and SG!).
I almost have my target supply of FAL mags. I went to the gunshow this morning and found a stack of 8, mix of Austrian and what look to be German or Argentinian, for $15 that were in VG condition at least. Worst one has a little cosmoline sticking the follower, and they need to be cleaned. Then I found 5 more for $25, but these were brand new unissued Austrian mags in the wrapper (I'd pay that much for new DSA mags, were DSA ever to stock FAL mags...). Find! (My wife actually found them...) I should send SG pictures of these so they know what "excellent to like new" means. Only wish the dude had more.
But this is disturbing: a lady upstairs had a LOT of FAL mags, even some used, non-DSA 30rd ones. How much? For good to very good, she wanted $35 ea., and for the better quality ones $50. For the used 30rd. mags: $85. I said "really" or something along those lines, and her response was that they were getting rare. "Not that rare," I said. The $50 may have been the Korean ones, they looked new, but odd, but at her prices, I didn't stick around to check.
NOT paying those prices again... EVER!
I almost have my target supply of FAL mags. I went to the gunshow this morning and found a stack of 8, mix of Austrian and what look to be German or Argentinian, for $15 that were in VG condition at least. Worst one has a little cosmoline sticking the follower, and they need to be cleaned. Then I found 5 more for $25, but these were brand new unissued Austrian mags in the wrapper (I'd pay that much for new DSA mags, were DSA ever to stock FAL mags...). Find! (My wife actually found them...) I should send SG pictures of these so they know what "excellent to like new" means. Only wish the dude had more.
But this is disturbing: a lady upstairs had a LOT of FAL mags, even some used, non-DSA 30rd ones. How much? For good to very good, she wanted $35 ea., and for the better quality ones $50. For the used 30rd. mags: $85. I said "really" or something along those lines, and her response was that they were getting rare. "Not that rare," I said. The $50 may have been the Korean ones, they looked new, but odd, but at her prices, I didn't stick around to check.
NOT paying those prices again... EVER!
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