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Shooting the Frankinfal

Chuck — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 08:00:03 +0000

A while back I picked up a FN-FAL heavy barrel Israel contract rifle that would not work. If you inserted a single round in the chamber and let the bolt close on it the rifle would fire but not eject. If you tried to load the rifle from a magazine it would feel but the bolt would not close fully. In the video you will see that the rifle would not eject.

After looking at the rifle it was decided to just rebuild the gun from the front to the rear. Every part was checked and and measured. The head spacing was way off, the gas piston was bent and the gas tube was also bent, there was an issue with the gas block and we checked all the components of the fire control group.

Now it is a nice shooting rifle. Enjoy this short clip of it working.

FN-Fal 7.92×33 second version

Chuck — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 08:00:26 +0000

With the last post we made on the 7.92×33 FN-FAL we showed a FAL that had a new ejector block and magazine made to allow the rifle to shoot 7.92×33. This post will show a different approach to reach the same conclusion, shooting 7.92×33. This series of photographs comes from another friend of Gun Lab and how he converted his rifle to use MP-44 magazines.

This version the owner cut down the receiver by 0.900 and welded support plates to enlarge the magazine housing.

He also put a side rail on it for a scope. You can also see the flapper magazine release for the MP-44 magazines.

A close up of the magazine release .

When the receiver was shorten then the bolt and bolt carrier also had to be shorten as well.

Reference pictures to show the length of the new bolt.

A view of the underside of the receiver to show the magazine well.

A series of pictures showing the size of the new bolt carrier.

A great deal of work went into building this rifle.

FN-FAL in 7.92×33

Chuck — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 08:00:07 +0000

In my list of want to do build projects building an original FAL is on the top. The very first FAL ever built was in 7.92×33 and was slightly different then the current FAL that we know today.

This rifle is missing and all that is left of it are the pictures you see here.

These picture are from the FAL book published by Collector Grade Publications. If you are into the FN FAL rifle this set of books is a must have.

This is Pete’s , a friend of Gun Lab, version of a 7.92×33 rifle. His solution was to put in a new ejector block of his design with a spring loaded ejector. Then remove 0.900″ from the magazine to fit the 7.92×33 round.

A side view of Pete’s rifle. Notice the larger then normal ejector block.

The magazine actually looks like the original.

You can see in this picture the fit on the magazine to the receiver.

You can see here how the cartridges set in the magazine.

This his new follower

A top view of the spring loaded ejector

This photo gives you a good view of the magazine well.

A nice side view of the larger ejector block.

He converted the rifle to take a smaller hand guard .

Video on making the FAL by DSA

Chuck — Fri, 15 May 2015 08:00:41 +0000

There are some real good segments in the video. One showing the stamping of magazines.

Cut away L1A1.

Chuck — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 08:00:15 +0000

It was brought to my attention,by one of my favorite blogs, that I was a little lacking on my cut away post of the FAL. I am sorry as I knew that some where I had a few more photos. It took a while to locate them but here they are to help anyone with an interested in the FAL/L1A1 rifle. This will be picture heavy so enjoy.

I hope this helps. If you have a chance please go to http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/ as it is one of my favorite go to sites.

video Friday October 3

Chuck — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 08:00:03 +0000

I just found this video from DSA on making there FAL.

Enjoy the video.