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To: doorgunner69
Except like the AR-10's smaller relative, the AR-15, you get to chip carbon out of the innards for hours when you go to clean it. P

The G3 system is 'roller-delayed blowback' operated, as you know. It's not very *much* delayed, only barely enough to get the pressure in the chamber down to marginally safe levels before unlocking the bolt head, while the bolt carrier actually accelerates backwards even faster separately from the bolt head. As a result, there's not exactly a lot of mass in the operating mechanism to suck up the recoil, nor is there gas redirection to reduce recoil and the bolt starts its cycle the millisecond the round fires.

The FAL on the other hand uses a gas piston system and a tilting bolt, which makes for a very interesting felt recoil reducer and doesn't allow the bolt to start cycling until the bullet passes the gas tap towards the end of the barrel, so the recoil impulse has to try to move the entire mass of the rifle for quite a while. FALs are heavier than their G3 counterparts, too.


72 posted on 12/08/2016 12:26:51 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.d)
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To: Spktyr

Great graphics. Never studied the FAL mechanism. Tilting bolt vs. tilting barrel on semiauto pistols.

With the gas turned way down, you do not get a lot of carbon in the AR308. The chamber and lugs are still a pain to clean if you are anal-retentive about your weapons. So was the Hk-91 chamber, and being blowback, it got REALLY dirty. And ruined the brass.

If I decide to tinker with this Franknegun AR going together, may try a piston conversion. Cannot recall the name of one maker that had a good looking system.


87 posted on 12/08/2016 10:05:19 AM PST by doorgunner69
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