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Quoted: Quoted: My #2 of the massed produced FAL's is the DS Arms.
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Hate to burst your bubble, but FN's were FAR more mass produced than anything DSA has ever made.
"M4" "My #2 of the mass produced FAL's...... I'm trying to say of the massed produced FAL's (FN being my number 1 of the massed produced rifles) DS Arms is number 2. The original Belgium guns were certainly mass-produced as you point out. Also please note that of the Belgium FAL's I picked a specific model as my number one choice.
As you imply the DS Arms FAL's are built closer to the original spec's then even the original guns. The DS Arms folks actually bought the original Belgium drawings and modern "CNC" milling machines allow for a closer-to-spec gun from DS Arms.
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Some corrections are definately needed here, and no flame intended at all.
First of all, DSA's are not mass produced. The entire purpose DSA was designed for was to make FAL's that are superior in pretty much every respect to any FAL before them. They get hands on attention like no FAL ever made. FN has name recognition, and that is why they are so frequently mentioned as the benchmark FAL. They truly are not. They were made by the millions, where as DSA details each and every gun by hand. That combined with superior materials, machinery and craftsmanship simply make a superior rifle. It's not a matter of opinion.
DSA did not buy the original Belgium drawings.
DSA bought the Austrian STG-58 blueprints. They did this for the simple reason that the Austrian FAL's, at the time, were the best in the world. After aquiring the rights to produce STG-58 clones, they greatly modernized their production processes, improved the materials used through out the guns, and devoted handcraftsmanship to their rifles that no other FAL maker(Austrian, Belgium or anyone else) ever had.
As for DSA being "closer to spec", they have greatly surpassed spec's of any previous FAL.