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<blockquote data-quote="Silverstrike" data-source="post: 16217345" data-attributes="member: 4781"><p>Yeah the FN is pretty neat, they came in a plethora of calibers from 7mm Mauser (Venezuela) to 7.92 (8mm Mauser) Egyptian 1 of only 2 original customers that actually seen war and combat. The other was Belgium in their African colony Congo (1960-62) and the Korean war with both Belgium and Luxembourg troops there in 1952-53. So yes these rifles fought right along US Garands during that conflict. Then Argentina had theirs chambered for their Mauser 7.65 caliber which then was rechambered for 7.62X51/ 308 during the mid 60's with CIA assistance. </p><p></p><p></p><p>One thing the FN has over the Garand hands down is it's **** indicator in the bottom of the trigger guard at a glance or a feel you can tell a FN-49 is cocked either day or night. As it is a rod that protrudes out if it's cocked or is inside and forward in the trigger guard if it is not cocked. The FN got the name Cadillac of the battle rifles because of how well it was built. This was also one of the reasons it wasn't built in large numbers as it was expensive to make, that and it came out right after the end of WWII where the US was flooding the market with cheap or free M-1's so only a little more than 171,000 FN's was made from 1949 to 54. </p><p></p><p> Shooting it is a lot like an M1 except you don't have the enbloc being ejected after the last round being fired, but the bolt does lock back to show that you fired your last round. The 30-06 models use the 03 Springfield strippers, the 8mm uses 8mm Mauser, the 7mm uses 7mm Mauser strippers and so on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silverstrike, post: 16217345, member: 4781"] Yeah the FN is pretty neat, they came in a plethora of calibers from 7mm Mauser (Venezuela) to 7.92 (8mm Mauser) Egyptian 1 of only 2 original customers that actually seen war and combat. The other was Belgium in their African colony Congo (1960-62) and the Korean war with both Belgium and Luxembourg troops there in 1952-53. So yes these rifles fought right along US Garands during that conflict. Then Argentina had theirs chambered for their Mauser 7.65 caliber which then was rechambered for 7.62X51/ 308 during the mid 60's with CIA assistance. One thing the FN has over the Garand hands down is it's **** indicator in the bottom of the trigger guard at a glance or a feel you can tell a FN-49 is cocked either day or night. As it is a rod that protrudes out if it's cocked or is inside and forward in the trigger guard if it is not cocked. The FN got the name Cadillac of the battle rifles because of how well it was built. This was also one of the reasons it wasn't built in large numbers as it was expensive to make, that and it came out right after the end of WWII where the US was flooding the market with cheap or free M-1's so only a little more than 171,000 FN's was made from 1949 to 54. Shooting it is a lot like an M1 except you don't have the enbloc being ejected after the last round being fired, but the bolt does lock back to show that you fired your last round. The 30-06 models use the 03 Springfield strippers, the 8mm uses 8mm Mauser, the 7mm uses 7mm Mauser strippers and so on. [/QUOTE]
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