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**Seaweed** · June 24, 2012, 08:46

Still here, many years and many thousands of dollars later. Today from a hotel room in the CA bay area.

catmguy445 · June 24, 2012, 15:11

I kind of did this backasswards. I bought an FN 50.00 in 1981, then got an FN-built Browning Hi Power, then an FNC, another Hi Power, and finally 3 L1A1 kits when they were still relatively cheap about 1994, an Irwindale Entreprise inch receiver, and a Lithgow L1A1 A receiver. I should have bought more than one, but didn't know any better back then. I still have one kit that I don't have a receiver for.

All this happened before I ever heard of the FAL Files. I joined in the fall of 2009, so it's coming up on three years that I've been a member, and I've learned an incredible amount of things I wish I'd known a long time ago about FAL's. I'm now thinking real seriously about building that last kit myself, assuming that Coonan ever gets around to making some Brit pattern inch receivers. The other two kits were built by a local guy who knows his way around FAL's, and both of them run fine. However, if I had it to do over again, I think I'd invest in the tools and build them myself, or would have sent them to either Mark Graham or Rich for assembly.

But what's done's done, and I'm not unhappy with the results of the two L1A1's that I had built. And I'll probably be on the Files as long as the Files are still here, which, hopefully, will be many more years.

0007 · June 24, 2012, 15:20

Been here since I don't remember when. Not as much time now since I retired from .gov service, heh.

**Hebrew Battle Rifle** · June 24, 2012, 16:07

What happened to Radio and OwlCreek?

ETA: I found this board while searching for the identity of the rifle that Val Kilmer used in the Drive In shoot out in the movie HEAT. I stumbled upon a picture of an FN and misidentified it as the same type. The trail lead here. Once I learned about the FNFAL, my interest in the VK rifle "evaporated like evil spirits at the dawn of day. " (I don't know who first used that phrase, but I like it)

**cavegeo** · June 24, 2012, 16:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hebrew Battle Rifle

What happened to Radio and OwlCreek?

Radio passed away some time ago, Owlcreek went to another forum.

**Hebrew Battle Rifle** · June 24, 2012, 16:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by cavegeo

Radio passed away some time ago, Owlcreek went to another forum.

Thank you for the info. I liked Radio. I am saddened to learn of his passing.

ETA: I like OwlCreekOk as well. I am sad that he left, but glad that he is still among the living.

masman · June 24, 2012, 18:37

wow cant believe i missed this one the first time it was up. i agree this place isnt as active as it was in the old days

gatoshooter · June 24, 2012, 19:30

been here since 2003

**Hebrew Battle Rifle** · June 24, 2012, 22:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by gatoshooter

been here since 2003

4 posts in 9 years? Friggin bucketmouth you are.

Chalk_2 · June 24, 2012, 23:43

Still here.

jerry704 · June 25, 2012, 17:50

im here and still loving this place!!!

**Hot Diggity** · June 25, 2012, 18:25

Still here. I thought this thread looked familiar. I don't post much, but still visit daily.

HD

Gary_P · June 25, 2012, 18:27

wow, Where is DABTL?

**C-ya** · June 26, 2012, 09:07

Posting in the very old thread.

Jailguard · June 26, 2012, 10:25

Still around

**FALonious** · June 26, 2012, 11:06

Lurked for 2yrs at least.....got sick of not being able to view most pics and purchase in the MP.
On almost every day since the end of 09"....and a bunch of $ lighter.

yovinny · June 26, 2012, 11:22

YOOOO

Blaster · June 26, 2012, 14:52

Been here for the past nine years.

WarriorPoet · June 26, 2012, 15:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by moses

So reply on this thread if you are reading this!

Replying on this thread because I'm reading this.

-WP

**moses** · June 26, 2012, 22:39

You would think this thread would not have faded away for a couple years!

I was here before this board when it was the "blue board" but didn't find out about this new Forum until I think the second or third day so that's why my # is in the high 300's

sideshowbob · June 26, 2012, 22:59

Well at two to four years I guess I fall into the second most popular demographic.
Try to get on as often as possible when at home and not out of the area.
Lurker for quite a while before taking the plunge.
Love the learning ability and obvious camaraderie here.
Don't post much because not that well educated in things FAL yet and the majority of things intelligent already seem to have been said.
Unintelligent things as well.
Figured I would just stay quiet.
Thanks to Jen and all the mods past and present for the hard work they do.

Bob

TheOtherChris · June 26, 2012, 23:30

Been here since before 9/11. Bought an STG58 and then found the files to learn what the heck it was.

cabinetman · June 27, 2012, 07:11

Here since 2002. To say that I've learned a lot would be an understatement. Lots and lots of personalities here, too. I foundly recall the "salad years" when kits were being offered on a "2-for" basis and parts were prolific. Learned to simply love the L1a1 and am head-over-heels in love with the NATO round so much so that I've pretty much made it my go-to caliber. Met a lot of great guys here, too.

Rome aka Cabinetman

**2barearms** · June 27, 2012, 11:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gary_P

wow, Where is DABTL?

Democrat Underground, where he belongs.

DK · June 27, 2012, 12:54

been here forever (it seems). Still here.

DK

**GOVT1911** · June 27, 2012, 17:14

Present

Douglas S Graham · June 27, 2012, 18:37

Here every day. 6 years.

STGThndr · June 27, 2012, 22:11

Started lurking before joining.. had bought a couple of FN49s- one an Egyptian and the other a non-monkeyed with something else I cant remember and sold it to get an FAL after spending entirely too much time in here.... stocked up on the 8mm, a lifetime supply for my Mausers. Then I restocked the 7.62NATO to go with the 7.62COMBLOCK... which I learned here was a POS round and rifle....

capt ron · June 27, 2012, 22:17

I have been here for a while. I know I don't have many post because when they get around 500 I start deleting the ones that are really not important anymore ( +1, nice looking,etc.). I usually stay around 400-500 post.

RON

G3isMe · June 28, 2012, 17:04

Still here too, jeez over 10 years. Took a brief 5+ year laison a while ago...

Mint · June 29, 2012, 06:50

Yup, still got a heartbeat here.

**gear-head** · June 29, 2012, 10:21

Still here, and just finished a Type IV argy build from Sarco with a Coonan Receiver

**LAFAL** · June 29, 2012, 10:39

still here. Hope to be sighting in my new to me Izzy, my Rhodesian, and a buddy's Imbel this weekend after work if I can stand the 101 degree heat.

falfred · June 29, 2012, 12:38

Falfred. I read the falfiles everyday, and post infrequently. The files is a breath of fresh air compared to most other forums. The falfiles core is made up of older more experienced individuals.

Edit to add: I ain't no spring chicken, either.

**andresere** · June 29, 2012, 17:05

Since 2000 I think, but I lurked before I joined. Posted on here to ask if a Century/Imbel recvr/L1A1 was a good buy. Recce (I think) and Ted squared me away and I bought it. Still have it. I'm on here just about every day although I don't post much. Miss a lot of the old guys that are MIA or have passed on (Radio). Best damn forum on the Net, this is.

georgeg · June 29, 2012, 17:35

I don't really recall when I first found The FAL Files.

doubletap · June 29, 2012, 18:12

Yeah, people come and people go. Just the flow of life. I originally joined in late '99, but at sometime, during the transition from the blue board I got wacked out of the queue and had to rejoin. We've had some great times here, I'm sure some of you still remember the great times like the Aluma-bombs from Williams, the great knockdown dragout fights between the Plumber and (gosh now I've forgotten his name, builder up in Oregon I want to say, somehow affiliated with Williams), the Jen's great/Jen's a demon threads, and on, and on.
Of course there has been an incredible wealth of great info too, over and above the FN, it's been a great place to hang out. The traffic may be lighter currently, but where can you go with out mall ninja's tell you more crap than you can take, communicate with a bunch of reasonably well educated adults who THINK (well some do), and in general just hang out. Kinda like my local pawn shop, with less things to get into trouble with.

Doubletap

squid8286 · June 29, 2012, 18:58

I've been here since '02.

**neilemore** · June 29, 2012, 19:38

I still check in most days.

J MOSBY · June 29, 2012, 19:56

I think that's 13 years, I think I'm starting to get real mad now.

**okiefarmer** · June 30, 2012, 19:13

Well slap me silly. I've noticed the thread title for months, and was just assuming it was asking for active duty members in the military. My son is, I'm not. He branched off into more music related sites after highscrewl graduation in '03. I think his handle was lilfalshooter or something like that.

I've been around for 11 years now, but finding more time to surf lately, and it runs in spurts, the farm taking all my time in seasons. Trying to slow down there, and spend more time shooting at the range in the city where the wife unit got transferred to.

**LaConservationist** · July 01, 2012, 07:29

I voted as a NON active member

HAHA

**hkshooter** · July 01, 2012, 08:47

I visit everyday, just don't post a lot. I'd have replied to this thread months ago but I thought the title meant active "military" memebers so never opened it. Assumption. The mother of all 'f'ups.

BearNAM · July 01, 2012, 09:06

Still browsing and eating popcorn, just wondering whats gonna happen next.

homelandprotector · July 01, 2012, 10:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hebrew Battle Rifle

What happened to Radio and OwlCreek?

Radio is hanging out in Heaven these days.

Owlcreek started his own forum for grumpy old men.......invite only members.

mime · July 01, 2012, 15:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by homelandprotector

Radio is hanging out in Heaven these days.

Owlcreek started his own forum for grumpy old men.......invite only members.

I'm not grumpy.

**Thomas** · July 01, 2012, 16:20

I am still here.
Getting ready to build another one.
Still have TAPCO kits and receivers in the safe.

Keep the faith.

**JAVIER** · July 01, 2012, 19:46

hello.........

masman · July 02, 2012, 06:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seaweed

Still here, many years and many thousands of dollars later. Today from a hotel room in the CA bay area.

IanMor · July 02, 2012, 13:40

Present. I've been here a long time. I dont do much with it anymore, as the posts are pretty slow. Lots of the good old guys are gone. Kits aren't what they used to be. But it's still a great place to hang out.

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June 24, 2012, 15:11	#252
catmguy445 Registered FALaholic #: 50311 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Boise, ID Posts: 1,202	I kind of did this backasswards. I bought an FN 50.00 in 1981, then got an FN-built Browning Hi Power, then an FNC, another Hi Power, and finally 3 L1A1 kits when they were still relatively cheap about 1994, an Irwindale Entreprise inch receiver, and a Lithgow L1A1 A receiver. I should have bought more than one, but didn't know any better back then. I still have one kit that I don't have a receiver for. All this happened before I ever heard of the FAL Files. I joined in the fall of 2009, so it's coming up on three years that I've been a member, and I've learned an incredible amount of things I wish I'd known a long time ago about FAL's. I'm now thinking real seriously about building that last kit myself, assuming that Coonan ever gets around to making some Brit pattern inch receivers. The other two kits were built by a local guy who knows his way around FAL's, and both of them run fine. However, if I had it to do over again, I think I'd invest in the tools and build them myself, or would have sent them to either Mark Graham or Rich for assembly. But what's done's done, and I'm not unhappy with the results of the two L1A1's that I had built. And I'll probably be on the Files as long as the Files are still here, which, hopefully, will be many more years. __________________ Zeke the CATM guy (MSGT, USAF, ret.) "The only easy day was yesterday" - US NAVY SEALs

June 24, 2012, 15:20	#253
0007 Registered FALaholic #: 8922 Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: back in the States for a while Posts: 1,211	Been here since I don't remember when. Not as much time now since I retired from .gov service, heh. __________________ Oderint dum Metuant - Back in the USA again

June 24, 2012, 16:07	#254
Hebrew Battle Rifle Horses Ass Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 5777 Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Arkansas Posts: 6,812	What happened to Radio and OwlCreek? ETA: I found this board while searching for the identity of the rifle that Val Kilmer used in the Drive In shoot out in the movie HEAT. I stumbled upon a picture of an FN and misidentified it as the same type. The trail lead here. Once I learned about the FNFAL, my interest in the VK rifle "evaporated like evil spirits at the dawn of day. " (I don't know who first used that phrase, but I like it) __________________ THANK YOU JESUS Last edited by Hebrew Battle Rifle; June 24, 2012 at 16:35.

June 24, 2012, 18:37	#257
masman Registered FALaholic #: 781 Join Date: Aug 2000 Posts: 5,652	wow cant believe i missed this one the first time it was up. i agree this place isnt as active as it was in the old days __________________ somethings wrong with the world when the best rapper is white.the best golfer is black.the french think that the us is arrogant and the germans don't want to go to war

June 24, 2012, 08:46	#251
Seaweed Veteran Member Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 2736 Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Newport, OR Posts: 1,279	Still here, many years and many thousands of dollars later. Today from a hotel room in the CA bay area.

June 24, 2012, 19:30	#258
gatoshooter Registered FALaholic #: 9175 Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 4	Post ?? We can post ? been here since 2003

June 24, 2012, 23:43	#260
Chalk_2 Registered FALaholic #: 13760 Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Texas Posts: 876	Still here.

June 25, 2012, 17:50	#261
jerry704 Registered FALaholic #: 62933 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: gastonia Posts: 443	im here and still loving this place!!!

June 25, 2012, 18:25	#262
Hot Diggity Senior Member Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 12470 Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Pole Cat Hollow, NC Posts: 807	Still here. I thought this thread looked familiar. I don't post much, but still visit daily. HD

June 25, 2012, 18:27	#263
Gary_P Registered FALaholic #: 8635 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: North Chucktown,SC. Posts: 592	wow, Where is DABTL? __________________ "No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. - Ronald Reagan

June 26, 2012, 09:07	#264
C-ya One day at a time... Contributor FALaholic #: 16313 Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Southwest MI Posts: 1,184	Posting in the very old thread. __________________ ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ US out of the UN!! UN out of the US!!

June 26, 2012, 10:25	#265
Jailguard Registered FALaholic #: 10331 Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: west central Florida Posts: 2,243	Still around __________________ "Our conduct defines us." What every officer should live by. It's the tool behind the tool that makes the difference. ~ Chet

June 26, 2012, 11:06	#266
FALonious In His Grip Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 51017 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: MI Posts: 1,534	Lurked for 2yrs at least.....got sick of not being able to view most pics and purchase in the MP. On almost every day since the end of 09"....and a bunch of $ lighter. __________________ "Originally posted by blueyedfaler" That is really an issue to you guys?? Do you ever build a gun or just collect "kits"?

June 26, 2012, 11:22	#267
yovinny Registered FALaholic #: 7679 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: NY transplant to central Illinois, Now in Kentucky Posts: 3,411	YOOOO

June 26, 2012, 14:52	#268
Blaster Registered Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 11913 Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Out in the hills in Colorado Posts: 5,523	Been here for the past nine years.

June 26, 2012, 22:39	#270
moses One of the original 400 Contributor FALaholic #: 392 Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: charlotte nc usa Posts: 5,469	You would think this thread would not have faded away for a couple years! I was here before this board when it was the "blue board" but didn't find out about this new Forum until I think the second or third day so that's why my # is in the high 300's __________________ . Military rifle steel plate match schedule for 2013, March 9th, May 26th(Sunday), Sept. 14th & Nov. 9th AKA "8.47"

June 26, 2012, 22:59	#271
sideshowbob Registered FALaholic #: 50791 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Idaho Posts: 11	Well at two to four years I guess I fall into the second most popular demographic. Try to get on as often as possible when at home and not out of the area. Lurker for quite a while before taking the plunge. Love the learning ability and obvious camaraderie here. Don't post much because not that well educated in things FAL yet and the majority of things intelligent already seem to have been said. Unintelligent things as well. Figured I would just stay quiet. Thanks to Jen and all the mods past and present for the hard work they do. Bob __________________ Bob

June 26, 2012, 23:30	#272
TheOtherChris Registered FALaholic #: 2050 Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: SE Idaho Posts: 2,403	Been here since before 9/11. Bought an STG58 and then found the files to learn what the heck it was. __________________ TheOtherChris __________________ Pray for Obama Psalm 109:8

June 27, 2012, 07:11	#273
cabinetman Registered Contributor FALaholic #: 7264 Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Connecticut USA Posts: 873	Here since 2002. To say that I've learned a lot would be an understatement. Lots and lots of personalities here, too. I foundly recall the "salad years" when kits were being offered on a "2-for" basis and parts were prolific. Learned to simply love the L1a1 and am head-over-heels in love with the NATO round so much so that I've pretty much made it my go-to caliber. Met a lot of great guys here, too. Rome aka Cabinetman

June 27, 2012, 12:54	#275
DK Cereal Killer Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 134 Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Piney Woods of Middle GA Posts: 2,513	been here forever (it seems). Still here. DK __________________ Historically Freedom is bought with steel, not gold... "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher

June 27, 2012, 17:14	#276
GOVT1911 Curio & Relic Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 9433 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Raeford, NC Posts: 3,215	Present __________________ I don't make policy, I just enforce the last 300 Meters of it.

June 27, 2012, 18:37	#277
Douglas S Graham Registered FALaholic #: 19332 Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Pa. Posts: 2,400	Here every day. 6 years.

June 27, 2012, 22:11	#278
STGThndr Registered FALaholic #: 14583 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Southern Colorado mtns and desert Posts: 3,409	Started lurking before joining.. had bought a couple of FN49s- one an Egyptian and the other a non-monkeyed with something else I cant remember and sold it to get an FAL after spending entirely too much time in here.... stocked up on the 8mm, a lifetime supply for my Mausers. Then I restocked the 7.62NATO to go with the 7.62COMBLOCK... which I learned here was a POS round and rifle.... __________________ Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. W.B Yeats

June 27, 2012, 22:17	#279
capt ron Registered FALaholic #: 17663 Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: one of the other coast Posts: 570	I have been here for a while. I know I don't have many post because when they get around 500 I start deleting the ones that are really not important anymore ( +1, nice looking,etc.). I usually stay around 400-500 post. RON

June 28, 2012, 17:04	#280
G3isMe Registered Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 6530 Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 1,750	Still here too, jeez over 10 years. Took a brief 5+ year laison a while ago... __________________ "I believe that time wounds all heels" ----John Lennon

June 29, 2012, 06:50	#281
Mint Registered FALaholic #: 63278 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: New York Posts: 60	Yup, still got a heartbeat here.

June 29, 2012, 10:21	#282
gear-head Member Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 6692 Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: PA Posts: 190	Still here, and just finished a Type IV argy build from Sarco with a Coonan Receiver __________________ ‘‘Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.’’

June 29, 2012, 10:39	#283
LAFAL Veteran Member Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 85 Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Pineville, LA Posts: 1,848	still here. Hope to be sighting in my new to me Izzy, my Rhodesian, and a buddy's Imbel this weekend after work if I can stand the 101 degree heat. __________________ -to AR is human. to FAL is divine!

June 29, 2012, 12:38	#284
falfred Registered FALaholic #: 8090 Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 295	Falfred. I read the falfiles everyday, and post infrequently. The files is a breath of fresh air compared to most other forums. The falfiles core is made up of older more experienced individuals. Edit to add: I ain't no spring chicken, either.

June 29, 2012, 17:05	#285
andresere Master of Gunnery Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 6598 Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 1,024	Since 2000 I think, but I lurked before I joined. Posted on here to ask if a Century/Imbel recvr/L1A1 was a good buy. Recce (I think) and Ted squared me away and I bought it. Still have it. I'm on here just about every day although I don't post much. Miss a lot of the old guys that are MIA or have passed on (Radio). Best damn forum on the Net, this is. __________________ I'm a Black Jew at a Nazi Klan rally. Let's get it on. ---- Ted Nugent

June 29, 2012, 17:35	#286
georgeg Registered FALaholic #: 15803 Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 174	I don't really recall when I first found *The FAL Files*.

June 29, 2012, 18:12	#287
doubletap Registered FALaholic #: 1426 Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Northern Taiga-land Posts: 829	Yeah, people come and people go. Just the flow of life. I originally joined in late '99, but at sometime, during the transition from the blue board I got wacked out of the queue and had to rejoin. We've had some great times here, I'm sure some of you still remember the great times like the Aluma-bombs from Williams, the great knockdown dragout fights between the Plumber and (gosh now I've forgotten his name, builder up in Oregon I want to say, somehow affiliated with Williams), the Jen's great/Jen's a demon threads, and on, and on. Of course there has been an incredible wealth of great info too, over and above the FN, it's been a great place to hang out. The traffic may be lighter currently, but where can you go with out mall ninja's tell you more crap than you can take, communicate with a bunch of reasonably well educated adults who THINK (well some do), and in general just hang out. Kinda like my local pawn shop, with less things to get into trouble with. Doubletap

June 29, 2012, 18:58	#288
squid8286 Registered Contributor FALaholic #: 7276 Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,330	I've been here since '02.

June 29, 2012, 19:38	#289
neilemore Member Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 18472 Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Centeral Arizona Posts: 274	I still check in most days.