Actually twice! I've been missing my FAL since trading it to another loving home last year and have been just looking for the opportunity to get a hold of one again. That opportunity came last week in the form of a sealed auction.
I bid on a total of 4 guns in the auction and came away with 3 for prices that would make you cry with envy so I won't mention them. (AHH! I can't help it, spent under a grand all told! ) The results were 2 metric Century Arms L1A1s in 98%+ condition with B-square scope mounts (post ban configuration and the receivers are stamped CIA & L1A1, but I don't know who the manufacturer was yet), 15 twenty round magazines, a rifle case, and a pre-ban Norinco NHM91 (AK variation) in LNIB condition with all the accessories. I doubt that all three rifles have fired a hundred rounds between them.
Sorry about the braggin' bit, but I realize how lucky I was to get these rifles. Opportunities like that don't come along every day! I'm going to have to sell one of them to a friend of mine to defray my costs, but the other two will be my shooters. Hey, George, when's the next Utah TFL shoot? Bragging about these babys ain't enough, I gotta show 'em off too!
I bid on a total of 4 guns in the auction and came away with 3 for prices that would make you cry with envy so I won't mention them. (AHH! I can't help it, spent under a grand all told! ) The results were 2 metric Century Arms L1A1s in 98%+ condition with B-square scope mounts (post ban configuration and the receivers are stamped CIA & L1A1, but I don't know who the manufacturer was yet), 15 twenty round magazines, a rifle case, and a pre-ban Norinco NHM91 (AK variation) in LNIB condition with all the accessories. I doubt that all three rifles have fired a hundred rounds between them.
Sorry about the braggin' bit, but I realize how lucky I was to get these rifles. Opportunities like that don't come along every day! I'm going to have to sell one of them to a friend of mine to defray my costs, but the other two will be my shooters. Hey, George, when's the next Utah TFL shoot? Bragging about these babys ain't enough, I gotta show 'em off too!