Not bad for a gun that is based on a 59-year-old design. This translates to four hits in the upper right shoulder area of a man-size target with one round just missing the paper. Four of the five Winchester rounds hit the target but were just off the circular bullseye target, with one round just missing the right shoulder.
While using iron sights on the G1 rifle, I delivered a group that measured 9 inches by 4 inches using Winchester white box 7.62mm FMJ ammunition. The bottom line is that despite the obvious differences between more modern rifles and a Cold War design, the G1 is perfectly capable of being used for personal protection and home defense as well as for recreational shooting with certain limitations.ĭuring the 100-yard accuracy test portion of this evaluation, I fired the Century Arms G1 using a BlackHawk messenger bag filled with 7.62mm ammunition as a rifle rest. However, it did not take that many rounds for me to find my comfort zone by repositioning my checkweld further back on the stock. The three problems that I have with the G1 is that the test rifle did not reliably feed German Patrone surplus ammunition, I went through several magazines before I found the most reliable ammunition, and the fact that the rear sight is positioned too far back on the top of the receiver for me and other shooters to use a “normal’ cheekweld on the stock to comfortably operate this rifle. Bear in mind that even though the gas regulator does not require a tool to make adjustments, I do recommend wearing gloves when you make adjustments on any rifle that is hot from excessive use. I say this because the G1 is manufactured with a gas regulator that enables the operator to manually adjust the operating system of any FN FAL copy by hand so it can reliably work with different bullet weights. However, it should be noted that if I had more 147-grain German FMJ ammunition with me and I had more time to do so, I could have tried to manually adjust the gas regulator one click at a time to see if I could get the G1 copy of the FN FAL to work with the German Patrone ammunition. This meant that I sighted the G1 in using mostly Lithuanian, Winchester and even some of Richard Batory’s reloaded ammunition, which all fed and extracted reliably in the test rifle. With plenty of knowledgeable technical advisers by my side, I started to sight in the G1 by using a variety of Lithuanian 147-grain Mil-Spec ammunition, German NATO specification 147-grain Patrone ammunition and Winchester 147-grain 7.62mm FMJ ammunition to see how the rifle printed, while being used to engage a 2-inch jet black Shoot ‘N See target that was taped to a man-size TQ19 Police Firearms Qualification Target 50 yards away from our shooting platform.įor some reason the G1 test rifle did not function reliably with German surplus NATO ammunition. The first order of business was to inspect the G1 and lubricate this rifle before I inserted a 20-round steel “metric” FN FAL magazine with five rounds of ammunition into the rifle. My other shooting buddy, Larry Kotz, an SOT dealer who supplies Class III firearms to military and LE personnel, also came along to test the gun. The person I selected to assist me was my shooting buddy, Rick Batory, a contract firearms and tactics instructor for a local U.S. The day that I decided to sight in the G1, I figured it would not hurt if I had a technical adviser on hand who was familiar with the FN FAL. Needless to say, I savored every moment of this quickly executed field test. When the new FAL owner arrived and learned how much I always wanted to buy or at least field test a FN FAL, he let me fire a few rounds from his newly acquired rifle on the 100-yard range. At the time he had no idea that I always wanted one of these rifles. Unfortunately, the range owner explained that he had just sold it. I liked this FN FAL so much I offered to buy it on the spot. I spent lots of time at a local gun range that was owned by a former lieutenant from the local sheriff’s department, and one day I noticed a Belgian FN FAL leaning against the wall behind the owner’s chair. After firing a few rounds through a friend’s FN FAL many years ago, I finally had the opportunity to conduct an actual field test of a FN FAL variant when I was asked to evaluate the Century Arms FAL G1 Sporter. I can’t explain it, but ever since I read about the British Army occupying Northern Ireland and then fighting in the Falklands War, I have wanted to get in some trigger time with a FN FAL. Have you ever been fascinated by a particular firearm but for various reasons you never had the opportunity to fire one, let alone own one? The rifle I am talking about is the FN FAL, a Cold War battle rifle that was selected by numerous allied nations when the United States adopted the M14.
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