BG>Maintain thy air speed, else the ground will come up and slap thee stupid!
        One of the reasons why I much prefer STOL type aircraft.

BG>Michael- You and I have spoken about FAL s before. I won't tell you how I
  >got my rifle for modesty sake( HA) but it ended up costing me about $200
  >three or four years ago. I have yet to have it fail to shoot and to shoot
  >just about where I wanted it to shoot. After I figured out where the gas
  >port setting was supposed to be , I have never had it jam or fail to feed.
  >I know that Rick Nolan has some doubts about the FAL and I don't deny that
  >he may have had some problems in the past that I have not experienced. But 
I
  >thought that the M-14 was the best 7.62 simi-auto rifle I had ever fired
  >until I started shooting this FAL L1A1. Now, I just don't know which one I
  >like best. But considering that I saw an ad recently for a weapon that is
  >just exactly like mine for the paultry sum of $1295.00 , I think I will 
keep
  >mine and in as safe a place as I can. In my hands, as much as possible.
        I don't have a problem with the FAL. Rick appearently saw some
problems with it during his service in the 22nd SAS Regiment. The two
that I've fired, seemed to be quite reliable, but I don't own one and
the number of rounds that I've fired in these have been rather limited.
        I do think that we could have designed a better rifle, but I
don't think that we can now. From what I've seen, the US is fast losing
it's competency to design weapons.
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