beside knifes i love the Fal rifle, it is the Right arm of the free world. used by 92 country's it is 1 hell of a battle rifle.~RT

I've owned a few and thought it was a pretty robust rifle.

I built more than my share of them from L1A1, FN, Izzy, and Para. The FAL is still my favorite battle rifle but got away from them when surplus ammo went over 250 a case. I remember getting Port delivered to the door for 135 shipped. Ahh, the old days.

Always wanted to get one, but the last couple of years they were super expensive. Almost got one in 2005, but got the Springfield Armory M1A National Match rifle instead. Still would love to get one if the price is right.

I'd like one too. Strong functional rifles.

I would buy one. The FAL is the only battle rifle that I haven't owned yet. I guess I need one now.................

between my FAL and my M1A......M1A wins hands down every day. Now if I didn't won a few M1A's then yea....it would be my favorite.

Love hate relationship. Nightmare flashbacks of parade square punishment involving copious pain with the FN in various positions of torture. Shiver..

Love the kick and that it fires after 3 days in swamp. Miss my 3 round burst bipod model.

Wussy's get to use girlieman plastic toy rifles now grrr.

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I really like the FAL. My dad and I have a some nice one's between us. His Israeli Heavy Barrel is the best looking FAL I have seen. The bipod is a weapon in and of itself. My Imbel receivered FAL has a 16 1/2" threaded barrel and that has worked out really nice. They do get a bit heavy in an 8 hour training class, but the weight lessons the recoil so it evens out in the end.

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I've got a few myself............

I have fond memories of the FAL...we had a single fire version...the SLR...I remember as a young trooper sitting down with my jungle cap on the floor stripping the rifle down and re-assembling it over and over again until we could do it blindfold. Seems like it was yesterday....

There was a neat trick some guys had picked up in the Falklands of using a match stick to enable the SLR to work like the Argy FAL's for a full-auto burst...this was used a lot apparently...I had a Parker-Hale Sniper rifle so never got to play like that but I picked up an Argy FAL with the folding stock as a back up ...now they were great kit...much newer than our old SLR's and had a proper pin in place on the safety/fire selector switch so engaging full auto was more reliable...we liberated a load of these and took them back with us...they saw a lot of use in N.I. as they were very handy in cars and the 7.62 was much better penetrating vehicles than the 5.56.

Then we went over to the H&K G33...which had greater mag capacity and was a fair bit more accurate...probably just down to the newer barrels...very impressive though for such a short barrel...we had been using G3's since Oman but the new compact G33 was like an MP5 on steroids and was very popular at the time. Then I got to play with a PSG-1...best Sniper rifle I ever used...but the bi-pod was a real akward affair...I prefered the simpler bi-pod...I think everyone did...

Now it is the L115 .338 LM because of the greater engagement range...but the rapid second shot on a PSG-1 still has it's place in my view...and modifying one of those to a .260 or a 7-08 would be very interesting. This would give the rifle a fair bit extra range and performance at distance with the 6.5mm and 7mm VLD's. I liked the PSG-1 so much I had one as a civi for tactical Sniper comps but lost it after Hungerford...although I believe it is still with Northumbria Police in their Armoury...the Head of Firearms back then actually came to my house to collect it...LOL...he said they could'nt afford them but that this one was "going no-where" now that they had it. That did make me feel a bit better!
But not much!

You guys in the States don't really know what it is like to have your guns taken off you...and I hope you never do!