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SAR48/FAL transferable opinions


Dean

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I have a transferable SAR-48 and never have had any problems /issues with it.

The SAR-48 was imported by Springfield as semi-auto from Imbel Brazil.  Springfield sold them both as semi-autos as well as converted some of them to machineguns once they arrived from Imbel as legal semi-auto imports.

From my research when shopping for a transferable FAL, the SAR-48s were some of the strongest receivers out there being a true forged steel, Metric, Type-3 receiver where many of the actual FN 50.xx Belgian imports had cast vs. forged receivers with a theoretical reduced receiver service life. (forget the cutoff date by mid 70s for Belgian cast vs. forged)

My SAR-48 was imported as a full stock long barrel model like the one on GB.   I ended up converting it into a short barrel DSA OSW.  However I still have the original front end and fixed lower/stock group should I ever want to bring it back to its original configuration.

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Good luck with the purchase as they are really nice guns and the actual machinegun conversion work done by Springfield on the original SAR-48 Imbel semi receiver is very well done.

 

 

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