So, As many of you know I'm now the Owner of a PARA FAL 50.63. I received the rifle this Friday and managed to get some range time Saturday.

the receiver is an american made billet manufactured by Ohio Rapid Fire (Defunct. also: avoid. my receiver is good, but some are not.) Imbel Lower,  Imbel bolt, DSA lower guts, DSA barrel, gas piston, ect.

she shoots around 2-3 MOA, standard for a FAL. and aside from an issue with a soft commercial round being ripped apart during extraction pretty dang reliable. I've got it set on gas setting 3.5, works great.
still absolutely mangles brass, but hey, what FAL doesn't?

I've decided to forgo the custom machining of a break for now as it was going to be more expensive then originally quoted due to factors (My smith would need to machine a dummy barrel, ream out a hardened break and then single point tap it. so $25 became $70 real quick. I'll wait for the 5/8th-24 version and get an adapter or the barrel retapped when the time comes.

all in all it's a fine rifle. the LOP is a little short feeling to me. but I have massive monkey arms.

Oh- and the receiver is metric cut only. not hybrid. as far as I can tell it's a full metric gun. I had issues seating two of the mags (Israeli markings) at first. but once I scraped the paint off the contact areas they functioned fine.


inch left. metric right.

my mag well:

 
LOVE IT.

Words cannot adequately convey my jealousy. That is the exact rifle (minus the carry handle) that I've been lusting after since I first shot a FAL... geez, about a year and a half ago? It's been that long? Regardless, congrats on the new rifle.

If you're not keen on the stock, DSA announced a new folding & collapsing buttstock at SHOT. It looks kinda like a hybrid of a SCAR and ACR buttstock.

Lear? Never heard of them.

EDIT: Nevermind. Disregard. Reading comprehension and short-term memory seem to be a bit lacking tonight.

it's okay.
You'd be surprised what a group of pissed off engineers and machinists can do when they can't find what they want on the market.
there's a bunch of guys who have started manufacturing PARA springs because the two main US providers (DSA and Falcon) don't do it right.
DSA uses a slightly thinner spring wire and Falcon just ignores the engineers and uses stainless without beefing up the wire to compensate for the additional weakness of the material.
heck- they have a guy who had a hundred carry handle fillers cut to match the profile of the receiver because he didn't like the round washer types.

they are the pettiest, most ingenuitive, and most singular minded group of lunitics I've ever met.
god bless them.

Edit:
to put it to you this way- there is a guy who manufactured his own ambi mag release because he didn't like DSA's...

Where did you find this unlikely gang of singular minded, OCD, FAL rainmen? The FAL files forum?

I'm curious, even though I don't own a FAL yet, I'd love to see what they have come up with.

Yep FALfiles. There are specifically three or four guys who do most of the stuff.

There used to be a few guys who did really really nice wooden furniture for the FAL. But both of them quit. (Blue monster and flypaper. Their furniture catches 400-530 a set now. It's really top end stuff.)

Nice rifle! 

The FAL platform does not excite me, but still a fine looking weapon.

Is it ok to shoot steel in these? seeing as they mangle brass.

She seems to mangle brass during ejection. So I'd say yes.
Most of the mangling is from it slapping the cases against the side of the receiver and flattening one side of the neck

Outstanding looks like a good gun.

I'm very happy with her.

FAL's are contagious though, and they spread rapidly....

...I already have money I'm starting to set aside for another one... 

  Purty gun.

I just acquired an Imbel 21" build.  Loving having a FAL again.   Making me get all kinds of itchy to get an L1A1 now.

   

  Yeah that's pretty up there for me.   I'm keeping my eye open there's been a fair number of $1000-$1100 L1A1's built on century receivers, there was a pair on GB, one Canadian, one Brit, the two for $1700.   I wish I'd have snapped them up.

   Century receivers don't have a good rep, but once they're working, they continue working, they're sometimes just hard to tune initially, and if the build is from a reputable smith (Ce on the files for one) I will get one with a cheaper receiver.

As soon as I get my rental house paid off in a few months, I really need to finish those extra kits I have been sitting on for 15 years. 

What are you valuing them at?

I ran to the range today and shot some supported.


I squeezed her for a little better then 2 MOA. Right around 1.7 after I stopped screwing around with the sling.
(Those are two separate 7 round groups. Shot at about 70 yards)

yes she is a shooter...