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Posted: 7/16/2011 6:15:20 PM EDT
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How many rounds do you have through your FS2000? Have you experienced any failures with your FS2000 so far? Have you noticed any excessive wear or weakness on any of the parts? Is there any type of life expectancy for these guns? I've had mine for about 9 months now and I have about 250 rounds through it. I guess I'm the third owner of this gun. I've done a detailed cleaning on it twice and haven't found any signs of excessive wear on any of the parts and I haven't had any failures with it of any kind. I put the metal charging handle on it so that is one less thing to break. I'm just wondering how long I should expect a gun like this to last. |
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How many rounds do you have through your FS2000? Have you experienced any failures with your FS2000 so far? Have you noticed any excessive wear or weakness on any of the parts? Is there any type of life expectancy for these guns? I've had mine for about 9 months now and I have about 250 rounds through it. I guess I'm the third owner of this gun. I've done a detailed cleaning on it twice and haven't found any signs of excessive wear on any of the parts and I haven't had any failures with it of any kind. I put the metal charging handle on it so that is one less thing to break. I'm just wondering how long I should expect a gun like this to last. On my second FS2000, sold to pay bills and I'm a gunwhore.. Have 1500 rounds through this one Zero failures A roll pin on my Moving parts assembly (bolt carrier) was accently pushed out by me and it caused some scratching inside the upper but still ran 100% until I noticed. The life expectancy on FNH weapons, including the fs2000 is far higher than most any AR15 parts. Better steel, better coatings, and much less deviance in part to part tolerances. I was reading an F2000 info sheet from FNH Belgium where they claim 30,000+ rounds of service without parts repair (minus switch) if regularly maintained and well cared for. If I can find the publication again I'll post it. Speaking of the switch, mine is getting decently worn, and I will buy a couple replacements soon ($15 each) |
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Excuse my ignorance but what is the "switch" If I need this as a back up part where can I get one and are there other recommended parts like an extractor etc that would be at the same source. Wulfmann The switch is the white plastic mechanism that's part of the bolt carrier. It feeds rounds into the ejection chute You can get them from browning parts department Here are the part numbers as they were a while ago, unless they changed. When you call it helps to give them the part name and the part number Switch BFS2000058 Extractor BFS2000074 |
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Excuse my ignorance but what is the "switch" If I need this as a back up part where can I get one and are there other recommended parts like an extractor etc that would be at the same source. Wulfmann The switch is the white plastic mechanism that's part of the bolt carrier. It feeds rounds into the ejection chute You can get them from browning parts department Here are the part numbers as they were a while ago, unless they changed. When you call it helps to give them the part name and the part number Switch BFS2000058 Extractor BFS2000074 Thanks OK, I have to ask, why would I call Browning for an FN part??? Wulfmann |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Excuse my ignorance but what is the "switch" If I need this as a back up part where can I get one and are there other recommended parts like an extractor etc that would be at the same source. Wulfmann The switch is the white plastic mechanism that's part of the bolt carrier. It feeds rounds into the ejection chute You can get them from browning parts department Here are the part numbers as they were a while ago, unless they changed. When you call it helps to give them the part name and the part number Switch BFS2000058 Extractor BFS2000074 Thanks OK, I have to ask, why would I call Browning for an FN part??? Wulfmann Browning does the warranty service for FN. When my FNP 45 broke I had to send it to them to get the decocker switch replaced. |
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I posted in Observer's thread, and long with Observer and Judochop probably have one of the higher round counts. I have had mine since 2006. A few thousand in courses, a few thousand more at monthly and one major match. Then there is training, and then my friends all seem to want to feed it with (random brands of) ammo.
The only thing that breaks is the charging handle (actually just the finger rest), and that's when other people handle it. For some reason, they HK-slap it, or twist it, or something like that. I had mine without the finger rest for years. Failures: If you don't seat the mag, it'll misfeed. Seating a mag is less positive than on an AR - on an AR it'll misfeed and the mag will fall out. On the FS it'll stay, and you can double and triple-feed it, kind of. The solution? Re-train yourself to the manual of arms of the system you're using. Wear assessment: It's a little scuffed up where I have the HK clip on the front sling mount ring. There is clearly wear where moving parts meet, but from 1000 rounds onward I have not really been able to tell the difference. |
| Solution for making sure you have a solid seat when you slap a fresh mag in. Tug it. If its locked in, it won't come back out. A smidge slower than slap and go with an AR, but I tug on my AR too. Nothing sucks worse than not having a properly seated mag when you need one. |
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Quoted: Solution for making sure you have a solid seat when you slap a fresh mag in. Tug it. If its locked in, it won't come back out. A smidge slower than slap and go with an AR, but I tug on my AR too. Nothing sucks worse than not having a properly seated mag when you need one. Yeah, it took me about 5 minutes of hands on experience with my FS2000 to figure that one out. |
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My FS2000 has ~4000 through it. Early on, when it was new, I had some stopages which I thought might be ammo (Wolf) or mag related. As it turned out, after several hundred rounds it didn't seem to matter what ammo or mag I was using - apparently it just needed some time to settle in.
As others mentitoned, postively seating the mag is important. The FS has dust skirts in the mag well that will hold the mag in - even if it's not locked in. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I posted in Observer's thread, I have looked for a thread by Observer and can not find it. Is it somewhere right in front of me? (wouldn't be the first time) Wulfmann |
I picked up one of the first few that came out ( back when I wasn't married and had money ). It's one of the few that came with the milled contoured barrels (think M-4 profile).
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/7537/dsc00190cb.jpg Since then it has seen cases of ammo through it, I couldn't even begin to count it. Only time I had trouble with it was when I tried some REALLY crappy frangible ammo in it (Remington if I recall correctly). Stuff would never cycle in any of my other 5.56mm guns. Actually, I've never seen any weapon cycle that stuff we had. Tried it in the 2000 and it failed to cycle on the normal gas setting. Put the gas port on the tighter setting and it ran fine-ish. Maybe one or two cycling burps afterwards. Using just about every conceivable type of ammo (other than the frangible crap), no problems. Not exactly the most accurate rifle I have, but it maintains a decent 2-ish MOA with most of the better grades of ammo, and just under 3 MOA with the lower grade (wolf) stuff. As to wear, I'm hard pressed to say there is much visible wear at all. Got a few casing dings on the ejection port door and the magwell rubber dust flanges are starting to look a little rough. Aside from that and some minor finish wear on the bolt, there's not much to see. One of the most reliable and non-finicky ammo eaters I own. Then again, I ditch anything that isn't...no matter how cool it looks. |
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My second one has no lite strike problems and so far all ammo works 100%
Wolf WPA requires using the second gas setting or it short strokes not picking up the next round but the gun is doing what it is supposed to for that. This came with the two fore grips and I have it set up for home defense close range using the tri-rail and a Magpul grip. The simple flashlight is a on/off, no worrying what mode its in and the cheapo laser actually has never once failed. The clone of the EOTech does not light the red dot well for strong sunlight and it is difficult to adjust but is excellent 5-30 yards (Does not change, holds fine but getting it to POA is near impossible) I will get a real EOTech (have one on my PWS) when the next round of rebates comes back as this is fine for close range work This is the ultimate heavy home defense gun with a similar silhouette as a pistol two hands hold I can be assured 30 rounds with pin point accuracy. While I would grab my shotgun for a night time intruder this is more the guys pulling in the driveway victim of chance opportunity prevent gun. Wulfmann 
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I have about 500 rounds through mine, not a problem yet.
Pic shows it with the tri-rail and light/foregrip on, but I now have the stock handguard back on. The weapon's balance, IMO, is much better without all the stuff on the front. I'm still toying with a configuration with the tri-rail though. I'm still messing around with foregrip/lightswitch placement. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-f7BZ1dRMxGA/TfauplW5F4I/AAAAAAAAAUk/_PliBlcb3VE/s720/DCP_2357.JPG https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-sSa5tWgUspA/TeFJh5W_kRI/AAAAAAAAAS0/Dh12aC4-vU4/s720/DCP_2349.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ldC8nGvZ0mQ/TfFUMb3I-OI/AAAAAAAAAT8/cfU6BWWoWWY/DCP_2355.JPG https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-joS6Euj8NKU/TfauLgoLH3I/AAAAAAAAAUI/6nHkNhgyLYE/s720/DCP_2363.JPG |
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What magazine is in your rifle KPS, any mods needed to make it fit? Those are Troy Battlemags. You don't need any mods to make them fit...but it's a tight fit and required a little bit of a push to lock in. The rib on the back of the mag gets thicker where the mag would stick out of a AR15 mag well, and I thinned it with a file and the mag was much easier to lock in. |
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What magazine is in your rifle KPS, any mods needed to make it fit? Those are Troy Battlemags. You don't need any mods to make them fit...but it's a tight fit and required a little bit of a push to lock in. The rib on the back of the mag gets thicker where the mag would stick out of a AR15 mag well, and I thinned it with a file and the mag was much easier to lock in. Hmm i didn't know a whole lot about these. How is reliability? Any problems? |
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What magazine is in your rifle KPS, any mods needed to make it fit? Those are Troy Battlemags. You don't need any mods to make them fit...but it's a tight fit and required a little bit of a push to lock in. The rib on the back of the mag gets thicker where the mag would stick out of a AR15 mag well, and I thinned it with a file and the mag was much easier to lock in. Hmm i didn't know a whole lot about these. How is reliability? Any problems? Nope, no problems. Seem to work well for me. There was a Troy Battlemag thread over in AR15 magazine section. |
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Quoted: I picked up one of the first few that came out ( back when I wasn't married and had money ). It's one of the few that came with the milled contoured barrels (think M-4 profile). http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/7537/dsc00190cb.jpg Since then it has seen cases of ammo through it, I couldn't even begin to count it. Only time I had trouble with it was when I tried some REALLY crappy frangible ammo in it (Remington if I recall correctly). Stuff would never cycle in any of my other 5.56mm guns. Actually, I've never seen any weapon cycle that stuff we had. Tried it in the 2000 and it failed to cycle on the normal gas setting. Put the gas port on the tighter setting and it ran fine-ish. Maybe one or two cycling burps afterwards. Using just about every conceivable type of ammo (other than the frangible crap), no problems. Not exactly the most accurate rifle I have, but it maintains a decent 2-ish MOA with most of the better grades of ammo, and just under 3 MOA with the lower grade (wolf) stuff. As to wear, I'm hard pressed to say there is much visible wear at all. Got a few casing dings on the ejection port door and the magwell rubber dust flanges are starting to look a little rough. Aside from that and some minor finish wear on the bolt, there's not much to see. One of the most reliable and non-finicky ammo eaters I own. Then again, I ditch anything that isn't...no matter how cool it looks. How did you mount that flashlight? |
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