I have posted several places regarding these little Spanish FR-8 carbines which are showing up here in the U.S. My friend has a couple of them.
From what I can gather, they are being marketed in the U.S. as .308 Winchesters and this could be a deadly mistake to shoot commercial .308 in them because of head space and pressures involved.
My friend has fired 7.62 NATO in them with no apparent problems. I personally would not fire anything but reduced handloads in one, and declined to shoot his with the 7.62 NATO rounds. Here is some of the info I've gleaned so far. Can anyone add anything meaningful to it?
http://www.gunsworld.com/spain/cetmefr8_us.html http://www.storm.ca/~debin666/html/the_fr-8_page.html http://shelfspace.com/~c-r-ffl/archives/199812/msg00597.html
http://www.storm.ca/~debin666/ht..._page.html
http://www.goags.com/~c-r-ffl/ar...00364.html
http://www.goags.com/~c-r-ffl/ar...00451.html
http://talk.shooters.com/room_27/Jul162000.cfm
http://talk.shooters.com/room_43/3728.cfm
http://oldguns.net/q&a2_97.htm
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=61277
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=59883
http://www.angelfire.com/nt/cruffler/spanish_fr-8.htm
http://pub33.ezboard.com/ffirearmsfriendsfamilyfrm22.showMessage?topicID=30.topic
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[Edited by 10CFR on 05-10-2001 at 11:53 AM]
From what I can gather, they are being marketed in the U.S. as .308 Winchesters and this could be a deadly mistake to shoot commercial .308 in them because of head space and pressures involved.
My friend has fired 7.62 NATO in them with no apparent problems. I personally would not fire anything but reduced handloads in one, and declined to shoot his with the 7.62 NATO rounds. Here is some of the info I've gleaned so far. Can anyone add anything meaningful to it?
http://www.gunsworld.com/spain/cetmefr8_us.html http://www.storm.ca/~debin666/html/the_fr-8_page.html http://shelfspace.com/~c-r-ffl/archives/199812/msg00597.html
http://www.storm.ca/~debin666/ht..._page.html
http://www.goags.com/~c-r-ffl/ar...00364.html
http://www.goags.com/~c-r-ffl/ar...00451.html
http://talk.shooters.com/room_27/Jul162000.cfm
http://talk.shooters.com/room_43/3728.cfm
http://oldguns.net/q&a2_97.htm
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=61277
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=59883
http://www.angelfire.com/nt/cruffler/spanish_fr-8.htm
http://pub33.ezboard.com/ffirearmsfriendsfamilyfrm22.showMessage?topicID=30.topic
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[Edited by 10CFR on 05-10-2001 at 11:53 AM]