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Thanks for your info
But we put discussions on the discussion page. It is inappropriate to edit into the category descriptions of the page. thanks for your input on the 50.63 details. That gun was a HOLLYWOOD built blank firing gun to emulate a 50.63. Since I haven't seen an "authentic" 50.63 that has the details you outlined yet, that image was the best IMFDB could get. That was photographed from movie gun inventory that I had access to. Now I will look for the details you specifically list and try to see who in the industry has a 50.63 that more closely fits the detailed descriptions. Do you have access to one? I would appreciate a good photo. There are none on the net. If you are just a Fal enthusiast who knows what to look for, than I still appreciate the input. This image will stay for now in the 50.63 category since that is what it is supposed to be. But now I have a blue print to look for when I photograph other FAls. MPM2008
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First off my apologies for using the edit feature in that Para Fal Clone Pic I was unable to locate a more appropriate area IE the discussion page.
I worked for some movie / commercial production companies mostly in the special effects circa 1980's so I'm somewhat familiar with movie guns, You should see the collection that came from stembridge when they folded up the shop.
Yes matter of fact I do own several FN FAL 50.63's and other FAL Variants and would be happy to take some pics to provide for your website here.
Although I will admitt I am limited to a POS Kodak digital camera, I spend alot more coin on my firearms than I do on modern photographic equipment. I do have an old Canon F1 but have not mastered its features yet.
Another valuable source of into for you would be two items one a website known as the http://www.falfiles.com and another would be the book by a gentleman with the name Blake Stevens called "The FAL" Or his book that deals strictly with the Metric version of the FAL "The Metric FAL"
If you search in Google Images you will see my NIB FN 50.63 along with a few other makes and models of my rifles.
The Rifle picture in question is from my experience a Para clone as it has features that do not allow it to be anything else IE the folding stock is South African in origin and the mag release is from an Inch pattern rifle amounst other features.
The Blake Stevens book will also tell you what features a 50.63 has and how it compares to the other FN Paratrooper rifles IE the FN FAL 50.61, 50.64, and the Non paratrooper rifles as the standard FN 50.00, and the Heavy barrel models 50.41, 50.42.
There is some Google Fodder for you as well.
You can reach me at Devencenzi AT Safe-mail DOT net
Here is the google search that shows 3 of my rifles as the #1 hit and the link below that is the URL of that picture of those 3 rifles. http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=FN+FAL+50.63&gbv=2
Direct link below. http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j184/mag-lock/RIFLES/Rifles3Van.jpg
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- I worked for some movie / commercial production companies mostly in the special effects circa 1980's so I'm somewhat familiar with movie guns,
Yes, then you know that there are always some 'built' guns floating around out there. I didn't even realize for years that my 733 wasn't 100% correct until I joined THIS site. It was a cut down sporter on a converted lower. I guess unless you're a gun geek who reads all the books on the history of the guns, things like that will slip by. I have a friend who can practically look at an SKS and tell who built it (I mean what arsenal, not the general type). I know another guy who knows every variant of S&W handgun ever made, and has a sample of every one ever made. But actual gun experts/collectors like that tend not to share their knowledge openly. It's like pulling teeth to get them to help me update IMFDB. Rich gun collectors are the exact opposite of CAR collectors. The car collectors WANT people to know about the history of their cars and for people to take photographs of them.
- I spend alot more coin on my firearms than I do on modern photographic equipment.
Don't know if you've noticed, but most of the pics of assault rifles, some machine gun, lots of submachine guns and handguns (you know my pics, they're the high end ones on a white background) on IMFDB are from my own collection so I know what you mean about spending coin on firearms. It's distressing just how crappy most gun pics are on the net, because their shooters don't know jack about photography. Don't know where you are but I have open invitations to anyone between San Francisco and Los Angeles (about the limit for my driving just to take a picture) to photograph their guns, providing them with the "collection courtesy of" credit or anything they wish, if they have a pristine example of a type of gun. Most of my guns are blank adapted movie guns (and are not beautiful safe queens), (and we have some other very active movie armorers/smiths on IMFDB) and you know well that these types of weapons are usually BEAT UP all to HELL. The pristine mausers I've been recently photographing for the mauser page, are from friends' high end collections
(my own personal mausers are really UGLY since they've been dropped by actors and stuntmen), but I figured you know all about that.
- Yes matter of fact I do own several FN FAL 50.63's and other FAL Variants and would be happy to take some pics to provide for your website here.
You should create an account here and not be just an anonymous IP address. You can be the FAL info source :) Again, I'm NOT a gun expert despite having a large collection. Or a specialist in certain series or makes of guns. I'm like the guy who drives cars, but never pops the hood or tinkers with the engines. I shoot the gun and clean it. Any repairs or modifications or customizations, I hire others to do it. It takes a certain type of scholar to really dig down and know all the exact details of the firearms. I hope you will create a USER account so that others can tap into your knowledge about FALS. I've been dying to work on a complete FAL page with good shots of the various FAL types (including Closeups on how to distinguish them). Thanks for the book links, but I hope we can make the IMFDB FAL page a good one overview page of the gun. MPM2008
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