Armory Sponsor
Posted: 6/13/2015 4:48:35 PM EDT
|
Looking for an optic for my first FAL.
I will be using a stripper clip DSA mount that will need to stay clear and completely functional. I'd like to have something low to the rail like a aim point. If I can find something that works Id like some magnification. ETA: I finally got my stripper clip dust cover in and put some optics on it to see how much space they would take up. Heres what I had on hand. 
|
|
Quoted:
TA33 would probably be your best solution, unless you wanna give the TA31 a go. Quoted:
Quoted:
one of the compact ACOGs might fit behind the stripper clip cutout. Maybe. TA33 would probably be your best solution, unless you wanna give the TA31 a go. The TA-33 can definitely be mounted such as to allow the use of chargers. It's also light, which is a big plus on a FAL, which needs as little extra weight added to it as possible. |
|
But then you got to figure out how to mount it if you don't want to have a chin wield. I think an ACOG is a perfect optic for a robust, minute of man gun like an FAL, but the stripper guide mount means it will sit up pretty high. Heaven help you if OP is also running a Para. |
|
Quoted:
But then you got to figure out how to mount it if you don't want to have a chin wield. I think an ACOG is a perfect optic for a robust, minute of man gun like an FAL, but the stripper guide mount means it will sit up pretty high. Heaven help you if OP is also running a Para. Will be running a ACR Enhanced stock |
|
Quoted: Will be running a ACR Enhanced stock Quoted: Quoted: But then you got to figure out how to mount it if you don't want to have a chin wield. I think an ACOG is a perfect optic for a robust, minute of man gun like an FAL, but the stripper guide mount means it will sit up pretty high. Heaven help you if OP is also running a Para. Will be running a ACR Enhanced stock Nice. Compact acog would be the way I'd go then if it will fit. |
|
Why do you absolutely have to run the stripper clip style? Just curious, I've run them both with, and without. Only way I could get a magnified optic with decent eye relief was to run a standard cover. If you do find something that works for you, post it up, I'm sure lots of us would like to see it. |
|
Quoted:
Why do you absolutely have to run the stripper clip style? Just curious, I've run them both with, and without. Only way I could get a magnified optic with decent eye relief was to run a standard cover. If you do find something that works for you, post it up, I'm sure lots of us would like to see it. Based on the earlier pics, I'm guessing (and it's only a guess) that it's to do with ban-state legal compliance. Might not want to do something like a bullet button type device, I suppose. If not, I'm just as baffled, because it does seem like compliance with use of clips does limit options pretty sharply. |
|
Quoted:
Why do you absolutely have to run the stripper clip style? Just curious, I've run them both with, and without. Only way I could get a magnified optic with decent eye relief was to run a standard cover. If you do find something that works for you, post it up, I'm sure lots of us would like to see it. Because I like strippers |
|
Quoted: Because I like strippers Quoted: Quoted: Why do you absolutely have to run the stripper clip style? Just curious, I've run them both with, and without. Only way I could get a magnified optic with decent eye relief was to run a standard cover. If you do find something that works for you, post it up, I'm sure lots of us would like to see it. Because I like strippers Looking forward to seeing your solution OP |
|
The Burris 332 or 536 sights for the AR are short enough to work, and are magnified (3x and 5x, respectively).
They are significantly less expensive than the TA-33; whether they are sufficiently robust is another question entirely, one to which I do not have an answer. |
|
Quoted:
Based on the earlier pics, I'm guessing (and it's only a guess) that it's to do with ban-state legal compliance. Might not want to do something like a bullet button type device, I suppose. If not, I'm just as baffled, because it does seem like compliance with use of clips does limit options pretty sharply. Quoted:
Quoted:
Why do you absolutely have to run the stripper clip style? Just curious, I've run them both with, and without. Only way I could get a magnified optic with decent eye relief was to run a standard cover. If you do find something that works for you, post it up, I'm sure lots of us would like to see it. Based on the earlier pics, I'm guessing (and it's only a guess) that it's to do with ban-state legal compliance. Might not want to do something like a bullet button type device, I suppose. If not, I'm just as baffled, because it does seem like compliance with use of clips does limit options pretty sharply. With a bullet button it's still more practical to reload using chargers. |
|
Quoted:
Figure it'd be easier to use stripper clips the. Loading individual rounds into the mag. The bullet button lets you reload using magazines. But trying to use a tool can be rather awkward and can be an issue if it needs to be done under stress. Reloading that way is still superior to trying to load individual cartridges through the ejection port, though. Reloading using chargers is definitely superior to both, especially if you can find good quality 10-round chargers (the Chinese-made ones I bought sucked, as the rounds would bind or want to come loose; the FN ones I tried worked fine). |
|
Quoted:
The bullet button lets you reload using magazines. But trying to use a tool can be rather awkward and can be an issue if it needs to be done under stress. Reloading that way is still superior to trying to load individual cartridges through the ejection port, though. Reloading using chargers is definitely superior to both, especially if you can find good quality 10-round chargers (the Chinese-made ones I bought sucked, as the rounds would bind or want to come loose; the FN ones I tried worked fine). Quoted:
Quoted:
Figure it'd be easier to use stripper clips the. Loading individual rounds into the mag. The bullet button lets you reload using magazines. But trying to use a tool can be rather awkward and can be an issue if it needs to be done under stress. Reloading that way is still superior to trying to load individual cartridges through the ejection port, though. Reloading using chargers is definitely superior to both, especially if you can find good quality 10-round chargers (the Chinese-made ones I bought sucked, as the rounds would bind or want to come loose; the FN ones I tried worked fine). The bullet button will be expoxied so the magazine cannot be released. There is nothing in the law defining perminant. The closest thing we have is a local gun shop was selling AR lowers and rifles with collapsible stocks button with a billet button so the magazine is "fixed". The NYSP deemed it to not be a fixed mag and demanded the records of everyone e who bought a rifle or lower with a bullet button under threat of a swat team raid. The local DA told a newspaper that if the bullet button was epoxied then they would not been considered assault weapons. |
|
Quoted:
BTW, are you saying that the bullet button will be permanently attached or that the magazine will be permanently attached? If the latter, what exactly is being epoxied to accomplish that goal and how does the bullet button shroud fit in? I will have the bullet button install then filled in with epoxy. |
|
Quoted:
I will have the bullet button install then filled in with epoxy. Quoted:
Quoted:
BTW, are you saying that the bullet button will be permanently attached or that the magazine will be permanently attached? If the latter, what exactly is being epoxied to accomplish that goal and how does the bullet button shroud fit in? I will have the bullet button install then filled in with epoxy. So it basically uses the epoxy to block the magazine release? Is the bullet button still removable at that point? |
|
Quoted:
So it basically uses the epoxy to block the magazine release? Is the bullet button still removable at that point? Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
BTW, are you saying that the bullet button will be permanently attached or that the magazine will be permanently attached? If the latter, what exactly is being epoxied to accomplish that goal and how does the bullet button shroud fit in? I will have the bullet button install then filled in with epoxy. So it basically uses the epoxy to block the magazine release? Is the bullet button still removable at that point? Correct the mag release essentily becomes fixed. I have t looked at it yet but from what I can tell the epoxy would have to be removed in order to remove the bullet button. |
Armory Sponsor