Great timing!

Elk creek

I have had this in purgatory for a while and got it out of jail yesterday! Great timing if you ask me. It’s a DA arms SA58 also known as a FAL!  I managed to scrounge up 8 mil surp mags so I’m happy! Just gives me warm fuzzies.....

JKP

Nice!

Elk creek

JKP said:

Nice!

Thanks!

earlyagain

The perfect kitchen door rifle for the semi rural home

Elk creek

earlyagain said:

The perfect kitchen door rifle for the semi rural home

I couldn’t agree more! 

GunNut

HEY!!!  We now have twinsies!!! 

Elk creek

GunNut said:

HEY!!!  We now have twinsies!!! 

Gemelos! 

Bigslug

The Right Arm of the Self-Quarantined World. 

snake284

 l love those guns. Wish I would have bought one back when they were cheaper. In 7.62 Nato you can kill anything with them. But I'm no authority, can they be easily scoped? Do they have a rail atop the receiver?

GunNut

snake284 said:

 l love those guns. Wish I would have bought one back when they were cheaper. In 7.62 Nato you can kill anything with them. But I'm no authority, can the be easily scoped? Do they have a rail atop the receiver?

You can buy Picatinny railed dust covers from several sources.  They are NOT cheap anymore, that's for sure.  The one I have literally fell on my lap but I have been doing some research and DAMN!

GunNut

Bigslug said:

The Right Arm of the Self-Quarantined World. 

Ok you get style points for that one.  THAT was clever 

GunNut

Elk creek said:

GunNut said:

HEY!!!  We now have twinsies!!! 

Gemelos! 

Yep!

Elk creek

snake284 said:

 l love those guns. Wish I would have bought one back when they were cheaper. In 7.62 Nato you can kill anything with them. But I'm no authority, can the be easily scoped? Do they have a rail atop the receiver?

Yes, there is a scope mount/dust cover  that DS Arms sells for 90 bucks. I might get one and add an optic of some ilk.  Thanks 

Diver43

Great addition to the family

Elk creek

GunNut said:

Bigslug said:

The Right Arm of the Self-Quarantined World. 

Ok you get style points for that one.  THAT was clever 

😆

Elk creek

Bigslug said:

The Right Arm of the Self-Quarantined World. 

🤣😂

snake284

GunNut said:

snake284 said:

 l love those guns. Wish I would have bought one back when they were cheaper. In 7.62 Nato you can kill anything with them. But I'm no authority, can the be easily scoped? Do they have a rail atop the receiver?

You can buy Picatinny railed dust covers from several sources.  They are NOT cheap anymore, that's for sure.  The one I have literally fell on my lap but I have been doing some research and DAMN!

Thanks WA I mean Gun Nut, LOL!

Zee

Envy continues. 

Gene L

I had one about 15 years ago, when they were fairly cheap.  It was reliable and accurate enough as it was.  I didn't attempt to put a scope on it and don't know if they sold the methods back then.  Plus, the FAL isn't all that accurate to become a sniper rifle.  No battle rifle, unaltered, is.The British never to my knowledge ever used them for a sniper rifle; the converted No 4s to .308.  The FAL certainly looks like an accurate rifle and some may be. Plus they're way cool.  I've got accurate scoped guns in .308 and didn't see the need. I never shot it much, though.    I can't remember shooting the FAL for accuracy, though.  I sold it  before they escalated in price.  The only psuedo Battle Rifle I have now is a M1A, which I wouldn't scope, either, for the same reasons.  The sights are superior to any Battle Rifle I've ever used.


But a scoped FAL would be interesting, and if you do, please post a range report.

GunNut

Gene L said:

I had one about 15 years ago, when they were fairly cheap.  It was reliable and accurate enough as it was.  I didn't attempt to put a scope on it and don't know if they sold the methods back then.  Plus, the FAL isn't all that accurate to become a sniper rifle.  No battle rifle, unaltered, is.The British never to my knowledge ever used them for a sniper rifle; the converted No 4s to .308.  The FAL certainly looks like an accurate rifle and some may be. Plus they're way cool.  I've got accurate scoped guns in .308 and didn't see the need. I never shot it much, though.    I can't remember shooting the FAL for accuracy, though.  I sold it  before they escalated in price.  The only psuedo Battle Rifle I have now is a M1A, which I wouldn't scope, either, for the same reasons.  The sights are superior to any Battle Rifle I've ever used.


But a scoped FAL would be interesting, and if you do, please post a range report.

Now that the weather seems to be cooperating I hope t get out and do a 50 yard test to see how mine shoots.  If it looks promising I MIGHT get the railed dust cover and see what would be appropriate to mount on top.  Don't want to make this into any kind of long range rig but I liked Zee's idea of mounting an ACOG on it.  These are not natural sniper rifles but they are NOT CQ guns either.  Maybe a low power one...

Zee

That’s why I ended up with a 1.5-4x variable. 

The ACOG didn’t work. It mounts too high on the C308 and didn’t have enough adjustment to zero. 

GunNut

Zee said:

That’s why I ended up with a 1.5-4x variable. 

The ACOG didn’t work. It mounts too high on the C308 and didn’t have enough adjustment to zero. 

Hummmmmm, I wonder if I would have the same issue with the FAL...

Gene L

Another thing to consider is the thickness of the metal where you would mount a scope.  I s it thick/strong enough to hold a scope under recoil?  I can't remember, and from a cursory web look at FAL mounts, looks like the top cover is replaced.  Is the OP rifle a metric or an inch model?

Elk creek

Gene L said:

Another thing to consider is the thickness of the metal where you would mount a scope.  I s it thick/strong enough to hold a scope under recoil?  I can't remember, and from a cursory web look at FAL mounts, looks like the top cover is replaced.  Is the OP rifle a metric or an inch model?

Gene L said:

I had one about 15 years ago, when they were fairly cheap.  It was reliable and accurate enough as it was.  I didn't attempt to put a scope on it and don't know if they sold the methods back then.  Plus, the FAL isn't all that accurate to become a sniper rifle.  No battle rifle, unaltered, is.The British never to my knowledge ever used them for a sniper rifle; the converted No 4s to .308.  The FAL certainly looks like an accurate rifle and some may be. Plus they're way cool.  I've got accurate scoped guns in .308 and didn't see the need. I never shot it much, though.    I can't remember shooting the FAL for accuracy, though.  I sold it  before they escalated in price.  The only psuedo Battle Rifle I have now is a M1A, which I wouldn't scope, either, for the same reasons.  The sights are superior to any Battle Rifle I've ever used.


But a scoped FAL would be interesting, and if you do, please post a range report.

Mine is a metric pattern 

Elk creek

Zee said:

Envy continues. 

I’m sure you will end up with one someday.....

North Forest

Congrats on getting a FAL. I put the DSA railed top cover on mine and it works just fine, no issues with it coming loose. Expect to work a bit with your gas adjustment for cycling, not a big deal, and it will beat up your brass. 2 MOA is a reasonable expectation for these rifles, maybe better with the right hand loads. I really enjoy mine, I'd like to get another, perhaps an Israeli with wood furniture.

Elk creek

North Forest said:

Congrats on getting a FAL. I put the DSA railed top cover on mine and it works just fine, no issues with it coming loose. Expect to work a bit with your gas adjustment for cycling, not a big deal, and it will beat up your brass. 2 MOA is a reasonable expectation for these rifles, maybe better with the right hand loads. I really enjoy mine, I'd like to get another, perhaps an Israeli with wood furniture.

Thanks! I’m not worried about brass. I have a pile of 308 brass. The beauty of the fal system is the adjustable gas system. I’ve been wanting a semi auto social rifle far a while and glad this one came along when it did. This was the last rifle in an estate collection and the gun store was sick of people looking at it, it’s been on the shelf for almost 2 years at 1300. I got it for just over 850

Zee

GunNut said:

Zee said:

That’s why I ended up with a 1.5-4x variable. 

The ACOG didn’t work. It mounts too high on the C308 and didn’t have enough adjustment to zero. 

Hummmmmm, I wonder if I would have the same issue with the FAL...

Likely. 

GunNut

Zee said:

GunNut said:

Zee said:

That’s why I ended up with a 1.5-4x variable. 

The ACOG didn’t work. It mounts too high on the C308 and didn’t have enough adjustment to zero. 

Hummmmmm, I wonder if I would have the same issue with the FAL...

Likely. 

Hummmm, that would be an expensive experiment...

Elk creek

GunNut said:

Zee said:

GunNut said:

Zee said:

That’s why I ended up with a 1.5-4x variable. 

The ACOG didn’t work. It mounts too high on the C308 and didn’t have enough adjustment to zero. 

Hummmmmm, I wonder if I would have the same issue with the FAL...

Likely. 

Hummmm, that would be an expensive experiment...

I like the idea of a 1-4x or a 2-7 would be good  too. 

sakodude

I can see you now, on the roof of Sprouts