/k/ - Weapons

That's a metric lower. You can tell by the rear end of the receiver being square, rather than having a tail on the bottom, as on the inch pattern rifles.

>>655274

Thank you

>>655274

Also the fact that the disassembly lever is the later horizontal pattern that was only ever used on metric guns rather than the vertical pattern.

Also doesn't have the improved safety selector of the imperial pattern guns, nor the imperial pattern folding sights.

As for who made it, no idea.

>>655280

Ik it's a Rhody if that helps

>>655281

>it's a rhody

Is it a machine gun?

>>655281

Then it is most likely either a South African contract FN FAL that was later sold to Rhodesia, or an FN rifle directly bought by the Rhodesians. In either case that would make it Belgian production. They used a few FAL-pattern rifles from other sources, but easily 95% were made by FN. That is, if it's an original from Rhodesia and not something made later and just painted. You could tell by researching that number to see if it's a factory serial, which would give you an indication of when it was built and who for.

>>655286

I don't have an upper yet, so no

>>655287

It was made in 1957

>>655271

I want to keep this as close to what the Rhodesians carried, what would u guys recommend

>>655287

Would I be able to call up on and ask who they sent the rifle to?

>>655296

FN made it, sorry for not putting that in the post

>>655289

Oh right, I assumed the lower was the registered part like on ARs.

But yeah, like the other guy said, pretty much all Rhodesian metric FALs were either manufactured directly by FN or lyttleton engineering works/armscor in South Africa.

>>655293

57 seems a bit early for a Rhodesian FAL, considering we were sending them SLRs until 1965 and South Africa didn't even receive their own FALs until 1960, could just be a lower FN had sitting around for a few years before sending it as part of the SA contract though, which later fell into Rhodesian hands.

>>655300

I can't find a South African serial list, they may just have had overlapping serials, if so I might be wrong about it being a FN production fal