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Posted: 1/24/2011 10:13:42 AM EDT
| Have a DSA58ELIET and dont know much about the FAL. The instruction book isnt very helpful. Can anyone help a new FAL owner on adjusting front sight? Its not like my AR sights. Also it has trijicon front on it. |
| So i get my FAL back last FRI and they replaced night sights with standard front and rear (DSA) sights! Looks like the front sight was bottoming out and instead of cutting the friggin screw to fit they just replaced.....Im shure glad i paid the extra 175.00 or whatever it was for night sights that wont work on a FAL. And I guess they would rather just send the useless sights back than send me my money back for the sights. Been trying to get them on the phone to see what they will do. Guess i will cut the screw and fix myself......what a waist of time! |
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There are several different sight post heights available for the FAL - unscrew the post disc and measure sight height including the serrated disc. If you go to falfiles.com and do a search for front sight post or zeroing my fal you will find more info than you probably want. I just went thru this with my new DSA Imbel rifle and corresponded with Mike Fowler at DSA via email. It was shooting about 8 inches low out of the box, and had to screw the post all the way down AND set rear at 400m to get a 25yd. bullseye. Mike was very fast to respond and is sending a new shorter front post to me now.
DSA has great customer service, from my limited experience, can't speak highly enough about them FALfiles is your friend 
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On a similar note to the sight issue (which I'm going to have to deal with), here's some interesting stuff I've learned so far:
The metric front sight is about 0.075" across The metric front sight radius is 22" The shooter's eyeball is going to be 24" to 26" from the front sight. For the purpose of this discussion, we will go with 25" The FAL metric front sight will obviously always appear to the shooter's eye as 10.3 MOA, no matter how far the actual target. Multiply that O.E.M. 10.3 MOA(~inches) by the first digit of the numeric distance to get the subtension of the front sight at a given distance. (i.e. –– for 700 yards, its 7 x 10.3 = front sight covers 72 inches at 700 yards) At 100 yards a 20-inch torso subtends about 19 MOA in the eye of the shooter. For simplicity, that's 19 MOA = 19 inches at 100 yards, or about double the width of the front sight. The FAL front sight just covers a man's chest ("20-inch target") at 200 yards. At 300 yards, the FAL front sight would appear one and one-half times the width of a man's chest –– or 30.9" to be more specific. Remember too, we kind of pulled the 25" eyeball-to-front-sight number out of our ass. The more you climb the stock, the larger the front sight will appear. Vice-versa the more you scoot your fat ass away from the rear sight to make room for your beer-gut at the county-range shooting bench. (Maybe this explains the internet-interest in thinner front sights.) 22" is the absolute closest you can get to the rear sight if you mash it against your eyeball. In that case, the front sight would appear just shy of 12 minutes. Here's another tidbit: Ranging using the front sight (assuming it's a 0.075" one and 25" sight radius) Looking at a typical person (call it a minute of man), how many fit across the front sight: Distance to "Minute of Man" 20-inch target 100 yd = 1/2 200 yd = 1 300 yd = 1.5 400 yd = 2 500 yd = 2.5 600 yd = 3 Not that I can see squat at 300+ yards! |
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Well I might as well add my two cents to this. You adjust the front sight with a 25 yard BZO target to get what is known as zeroed same goes for your rear sight on windage. Also known as combat zero, no matter what at the greater distance the front sight will cover your target. With the front sight of an M16A2 at 500 yards it will completely cover the target. Once you achive your zero with the front sight all elevation will be done with the rear sight as well as windage. Here is where your money will go for rounds in learning your weapon at each 100 yard line but trust in the thought that it will be fun doing so. Enjoy for you have the best rifle in the world for raining hell. Campbell (sorry about my spelling.)
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