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I still don't know what this babble about weight and shorter effective range is all about.
When I got my first FAL I didn't have a spare sling laying around, so I just huffed it without one. I went out at night for about 6 hours without a sling, and 2 spare mags on my person. No problems.
Go to the gym if you have that much of a hard time carrying a rifle, damn.
Effective range? The farthest I've ever seen anything was about 4-500 yards out. Any semi automatic .308 can do that easily if the nut behind the trigger knows his shit. Even more so if you've got a nice optic sitting on it.
ETA: Even if you don't have as effective accuracy of a bolt gun out to say 6-800 yards, you've still got 20 rounds of knock-knock motherfucker .308 on tap. I'd much rather have that for the close encounters with hogs, or quick follow up shots out to 100 yards. Semi-auto's are just better for all around field use.
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FAL was built specifically to kill mammals who top the food chain.
FAL ain't that heavy, when you compare it to an Izzy, to an L1A1, to an Rodie, to an Imbel...
I chucked my Israeli FAL with SUIT on the scale once for shits and giggles. 12.5 lbs. About the lightest FAL (para carbine with alloy lower and type I upper) weighs a little over 8 lbs.
You can do better with a bolt action. No need at all to lug that extra weight around for a shorter effective range.
I still don't know what this babble about weight and shorter effective range is all about.
When I got my first FAL I didn't have a spare sling laying around, so I just huffed it without one. I went out at night for about 6 hours without a sling, and 2 spare mags on my person. No problems.
Go to the gym if you have that much of a hard time carrying a rifle, damn.
Effective range? The farthest I've ever seen anything was about 4-500 yards out. Any semi automatic .308 can do that easily if the nut behind the trigger knows his shit. Even more so if you've got a nice optic sitting on it.
ETA: Even if you don't have as effective accuracy of a bolt gun out to say 6-800 yards, you've still got 20 rounds of knock-knock motherfucker .308 on tap. I'd much rather have that for the close encounters with hogs, or quick follow up shots out to 100 yards. Semi-auto's are just better for all around field use.
Not wanting to lug a 8-12 lb bullet hose around for miles to take one or two shots at a deer or elk doesn't mean I need to hit the gym. Heck lots of people backpack into hunting areas, I've done that before. Taking my FAL instead of a much lighter and more capable bolt action would have been plain stupid.
Lots of people take 300 yard shots. Your vital zone on a deer is an 8" circle, your average FAL is going to sling them outside of that at that range a significant number of times.
If the most you'll walk is a couple miles or you are stationary, the weight obviously doesn't matter as much.
There is a reason why even when FALs were dirt cheap almost everyone that hunted chose something else.