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Blue207,
Excellent report! Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm of these pieces with us.
A couple of questions, if I may.
1. Which brake, if any, do your carbines have on them?
2. I would think that DSA would do any drilling mods necessary to the gas port to make their carbines function properly. Are any of yours DSA assembled?
3. Am I just plain nutz for having a nightmare last night about this rifle? Seriously. The last post I read before going to bed last night was your post about how much you enjoy your carbine. I awoke from a dead sleep when I reached in the box to pull out my new 21" barrelled DSA and I couldn't find the muzzle. The damn thing was sooooo long, the barrel just kept on coming out of the box as if it had no end. I swear this is true. I must be losing it, eh?
Just when I thought I had made up my mind, you come along and give me nightmares.
Thanks,
Joe
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Joe,
I use a modified Steyr "short combo device" that has had the length altered by me so it cannot accept an evil bayonet. The device has 4 rows of holes on it and I have it positioned so the top set are at roughly 45 degree angles to the TDC of the barrel, and have enlarged them considerably. I cannot say it has been approved by anybody in particular but I think I could show it does act as a compensator and not just a flash suppressor.
BTW - I cannot tell a whole lot of difference from the flash from my 21" barrel with DSA comp from this one.
2. The 21" barrel is DSA assembled. The carbine is Entreprise assembled. They cut the barrel and opened the gas port.
The first carbine I had (notice "had" and not "have") I made from a STG58 kit from A&D Global. I followed the Gunplumbers recommendation for drill bit sizes and had no problems with the function, other that needing to replace the extractor, but that had nothing to do with the gas system.
Cruise on over to the FAL Files and search for posts about the carbine. Most love it.
I have also found something very neat.
The rear sight is graduated in 100's of meters, starting at 2 for 200, right?
OK - there is some loss of muzzle velocity with a barrel reduction.
With a 16 1/4" bbl you can zero your weapon for a dead on zero at 100 yards and when engaging targets at 200 yards move the rear sight up to the next notch and you are dead on again. I would guess it would be the same all the way to the top of the scale. I have not tried the theory out yet but I cannot see why it would not work.
Find somebody close to where you live with one and compare them would be my suggestion.
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