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Evil Muppet

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Re: Help me pick out a semi-auto .308 please.
« Reply #60 on: July 23, 2009, 04:27:40 AM »
Oh yeah.   The AR is a huge pain in the ass to clean.  It don't take long to get them all fouled up to the point that it starts to malfunction either. 
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Re: Help me pick out a semi-auto .308 please.
« Reply #61 on: July 23, 2009, 10:37:56 AM »
Quote from: John Shaw on July 22, 2009, 03:28:24 PM
You've never shot someone else's gun? (Like, by asking people at just about ANY RANGE?)

You've never gone to a range where they rent guns? (Like, almost EVERY RANGE owned by a gun shop?)

"Try before you buy" is more common with guns than it is with cars.

Please.

Only if you live somewhere where you can do that, at the same time as having the money to do that, at the same time as having the time to do that.

So here's a factoid: I have had one opportunity to go to a real rifle range in my life. I shot a DCM round, with an SKS that had trouble hitting the TARGET at 200 yards. I later found out why, by shooting it at a sheet of paper at about 50 feet, the resulting hole was a perfect profile of a boat-tail bullet. I think this is what in Vietnam was called "tumbling".

I have a .22 with which I can prune shrubs, and I've done quite a bit of archery. I know where I aim, so I do in fact want a rifle that is reasonably accurate without the sarcasm.

Some day I hope to have the time, money and opportunity all that the same time.
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Re: Help me pick out a semi-auto .308 please.
« Reply #62 on: July 23, 2009, 07:16:48 PM »
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Re: Help me pick out a semi-auto .308 please.
« Reply #63 on: July 23, 2009, 09:58:06 PM »
Quote from: Evil Muppet on July 23, 2009, 04:27:40 AM
Oh yeah.   The AR is a huge pain in the ass to clean.  It don't take long to get them all fouled up to the point that it starts to malfunction either. 

I own an ar15, the chore of cleaning them has been over-exaggerated.
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Re: Help me pick out a semi-auto .308 please.
« Reply #64 on: July 23, 2009, 11:56:38 PM »
Quote from: Rusty Nut on July 23, 2009, 09:58:06 PM
Quote from: Evil Muppet on July 23, 2009, 04:27:40 AM
Oh yeah.   The AR is a huge pain in the ass to clean.  It don't take long to get them all fouled up to the point that it starts to malfunction either. 

I own an ar15, the chore of cleaning them has been over-exaggerated.

Weeeell that's not really true.

The AR is not ridiculously hard to clean, it's just much harder to clean well than your average rifle is all. I mean, The FAL has a huge hinge and it breaks in half at the back, and it's almost an inch and a half wide back there. You can stick three tootherbrushes inside the action at the same time. 

It's hard to clean by comparison.
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Re: Help me pick out a semi-auto .308 please.
« Reply #65 on: July 24, 2009, 01:25:44 AM »

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If it's not too much to ask, could someone describe what modifications were made to that FAL?  How would that rifle compare to an M21 in both performance, and cost?
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Re: Help me pick out a semi-auto .308 please.
« Reply #66 on: July 24, 2009, 01:33:52 AM »
I just realized how sexy the fal is omg I want one. 
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« Reply #67 on: July 24, 2009, 01:59:36 AM »
Quote from: Rusty Nut on July 24, 2009, 01:33:52 AM
I just realized how sexy the fal is omg I want one. 

I suspected that, but I don't really know.  :D
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« Reply #68 on: December 15, 2009, 06:13:43 PM »
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Re: Help me pick out a semi-auto .308 please.
« Reply #69 on: December 15, 2009, 10:14:03 PM »
Nothing yet since my car's a fuckin' ho and keeps breaking, picked up a savage 7mm from a pawn shop though.
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Re: Help me pick out a semi-auto .308 please.
« Reply #70 on: December 15, 2009, 11:05:11 PM »
FN-FAL still hasn't jammed or malfunctioned in any way after 600 rounds.
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Re: Help me pick out a semi-auto .308 please.
« Reply #71 on: December 16, 2009, 12:05:47 AM »
Thread is TL;DR but I'm throwing my support behind the m14/m1a
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Re: Help me pick out a semi-auto .308 please.
« Reply #72 on: December 18, 2009, 05:15:09 AM »
Just curious, how do you speak "FN-FAL"

Like "pen pal" or like "FM radio" or like "F.N.F.A.L."  ??


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Re: Help me pick out a semi-auto .308 please.
« Reply #73 on: December 18, 2009, 08:36:35 AM »
I say "effen fall", but then nobody usually knows what I'm talking about.
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Re: Help me pick out a semi-auto .308 please.
« Reply #74 on: December 18, 2009, 08:38:14 AM »
Quote from: BonerJoe on December 18, 2009, 08:36:35 AM
I say "effen fall", but then nobody usually knows what I'm talking about.
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