Skarekrow88
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Finally settled on the model of FAL that I wanted after years of being undecided on one. From the title you can see it was the 18” FALO. Great looking rifle imo.
Long story short I elected to “tune” the gas system like the manual says to do by opening the gas system all the way up and loading a single round at a time and closing the gas two clicks or so at a time until the rifle locks open when empty (then closing it two more clicks for assured reliability). I started out doing this with Monarch lacquer coated .308 FMJ and I was never able to get the rifle to lock open even after closing the system all the way.
Luckily my buddy had a box of Winchester M80 and I was able to get the rifle tuned with a small handful of clicks left before the gas system was all the way back to its original position.
I knew monarch was probably a little less powerful than M80 but I wouldn’t have thought they would be so different that it meant the difference between cycling and not cycling a tried and true battle rifle design like the FAL. I tried to find the muzzle velocity of Monarch .308 using my google-fu but didn’t have any luck. Anybody have any insight? I was kinda disappointed that it won’t function with the cheaper steel cased stuff, it’s one of the main reasons I bought the rifle in the first place.
Long story short I elected to “tune” the gas system like the manual says to do by opening the gas system all the way up and loading a single round at a time and closing the gas two clicks or so at a time until the rifle locks open when empty (then closing it two more clicks for assured reliability). I started out doing this with Monarch lacquer coated .308 FMJ and I was never able to get the rifle to lock open even after closing the system all the way.
Luckily my buddy had a box of Winchester M80 and I was able to get the rifle tuned with a small handful of clicks left before the gas system was all the way back to its original position.
I knew monarch was probably a little less powerful than M80 but I wouldn’t have thought they would be so different that it meant the difference between cycling and not cycling a tried and true battle rifle design like the FAL. I tried to find the muzzle velocity of Monarch .308 using my google-fu but didn’t have any luck. Anybody have any insight? I was kinda disappointed that it won’t function with the cheaper steel cased stuff, it’s one of the main reasons I bought the rifle in the first place.
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