Love the roasts! Can you do the FAL / StG.58 / L1A1 if you haven't already?
The battle rifle for the newfag /k/ommando fresh out of Reddit trying to seem cool on a board that doesn’t give a shit about Rhodesia memes anymore. He’s the guy still making “slotting floppy” and “terries” memes when most of the board just wants to shitpost about something else today. The FAL rifle is a big, overbuilt battle rifle that just wants to ease into it’s LaZBoy chair like the SMLE did and keeps getting poked and prodded to come back to fighting even when there are much better battle rifles.
If I had to choose between a G3A3 or an FAL, I’d take the G3. Why? Because the G3A3 is lighter and thus won’t make me regret every choice that brought me to trying to wheel it around in a combat zone.
Developed by FN’s Dieudonne Saive, or “Belgian John Browning”, the FN FAL would take the same basic mechanics as the failed FN 1949 and make it modern with features like a rear peep sight, removable magazine and a host of various different modifications to the owner’s desire. And we know how well it sold, upwards of half the world bought FAL rifles while the other half bought G3′s or were given M14′s because that’s the only way you can get people to take M14′s.
So, what are you getting with the FAL? A big, beefy, beat someone to death when you’re entirely out of ammo battle rifle. The FAL’s only problem is that there’s about 15 different patterns of FAL and they all have their own things to them, the British Metrics are different to the Austrian Stg, the Stg is different to the Brazilian Imbel guns and so on. It means that if you learn one pattern well, then swap to another, plus the FAL’s got it’s own problems as well. The charging handle means that if anything jams well enough, you really can’t get it out, it’s pretty easily fucked by elements such as sand or mud and really it’s not that good. It’s a gun design from the 1950′s that’s held aloft by people who don’t want to realize it’s from the 50′s and thus isn’t that good in comparison to modern equipment.
