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Posted: 3/28/2015 12:43:37 PM EDT
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Sold my metric Imbel/STG58 kit build from way back in the day.
Had Arizona Response Systems cut down the barrel and parkerized it >10 years ago (!?!). GREAT gun considering it was my first build of any kind. I included 10 mags. Got what I believe to be a fair price for it (while not gouging my friend). Replacing it (for now) with an M1A SOCOM 16... but I don't think it'll be my last foray into FAL territory. |
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Do not sell guns!!!!!!!!!!!! True that. I think I fell victim to a series of circumstances: -The desire for something different -A friend who wants what I've got and is willing to pay a fair price (in both our opinions) -Being temporarily broke (my own fault, due to some recent 'big ticket' purchases) -A wife that's fine with multiple guns, as long as each fills a specific role (ie. My shotgun, my duty pistol, my backup/travel gun, my precision rifle etc.). Two carbine-length battle rifles... she'd know!!! She's already giving me the stink eye over multiple AR uppers! I keep telling her, "But that a .300 SBR dear. That other one is a 5.56 SBR. They look identical, but they're TOTALLY different animals, I swear." I'll find another down the road. Maybe go for a para next time around. Who knows. |
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I've shot an M1A SOCOM and I wouldn't trade a broken FAL for one. They reek of tacticool And I found it to be a very unpleasant gun, balance, recoil, and getting slapped in the face with muzzle blast. It might be a different story if you're going to remove the factory flash hider and put on a suppressor.
An M1A National Match... on the other hand...  
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I've shot an M1A SOCOM and I wouldn't trade a broken FAL for one. They reek of tacticool And I found it to be a very unpleasant gun, balance, recoil, and getting slapped in the face with muzzle blast. It might be a different story if you're going to remove the factory flash hider and put on a suppressor. An M1A National Match... on the other hand... I tried talking a good friend out of that same rifle. Wouldn't listen. We picked it up, hit the range. He fired it 4 times, asked if I wanted to shoot it, declined. Sold it within a week. |
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I could sell one of the two Imbel based kit guns I own, but they run great and I know it will be difficult in the future to find one as good in the future. Just troubleshooting one could run $100 given how much ammo costs. The only way I would sell one is if I ever end up buying a Belgian preban.
Given the scarcity of parts and general crap being sold these days. FALs and AKs are not worth selling if you intend to own anything similar in the future. |
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