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Argentine FN-49?

DolomiteDolomite Member Posts: 9 ✭✭
edited April 2004 in Ask the Experts
Does anyone have any experience with the recent Argentine Navy FN-49 imports in .308 caliber? Any feedback on these rifles would be greatly appreciated.

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  • MIKE WISKEYMIKE WISKEY Member Posts: 10,042 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    a customer just had me order one, nice looking rifle and bayonet but the for almosy a grand it should be (low #, special selection, matching # bay. ect)
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  • ammo guyammo guy Member Posts: 810 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The FN 49 you mention was made for the argentine govt in 7.65 mm Argentine caliber orginally, years later they were converted to NATO caliber. they also converted the orginal 10 rd fixed mag to detachable. Some were inported a few years ago with the 20 rd cut down to 10 rds. They are good, well made guns. The currently available guns have the orginal mag. included. Whether or not they are worth the money that is being asked for them is another question.
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  • 1KYDSTR1KYDSTR Member Posts: 2,361 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    For that kind of money I'll stick to collecting Tokarevs! It's a bit less of a tree limb as well! I'm Belgian by family heritage and would LOVE to have an FN-49 but the prices are way too high! Another sticking point for me is the fact that the FN's currently offered are rechambered and rearsenaled to different magazine capacity than was origially intended by Mr. Saive et al. Excellent design, the FN, but so is the Tokarev and for that matter the Garand that you could get used, parts mixed for a little less money.

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  • jakelinjakelin Member Posts: 95 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I want to point out here that it was the FN factory and the Belgians that actually developed the conversion idea and supplied the tooling and technical support for all this in the first place. The FAL and the NATO 7.62 mm round were coming up and online in the late '50s, but not every customer could afford to re-equip ALL their armed forces that soon after the last major war, so the ABL conversion was offered as a stop-gap. Argentina adopted it for the Navy and various second line units associated. The only drawback to the ABL conversion is that it is heavy and not as advanced as the later FAL, that aside it is still a good rifle.

    JAK
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