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Imbel Paratrooper FAL
- Thread starter GBISHOP
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Yep. Just do an image search for Brazilian army rifles.
Looking through my pics I only see the shorter barrel version. That's as conclusive as I can get.
Edited to add, according to one of the Bibles they did.
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I've learned never to say never (or always) with regard to FALs, but I have nothing in my library to conclude that IMBEL made a 50:61 (Argentina did). I've only seen the ~17.2" variety.
That's what I thought too. I'm not mucking with the barrel. It's an all IMBEL 100% matching 50.61. No serial numbers on anything but the upper. NOS bolt and the SA conversion kit. PAC upper.Looking through my pics I only see the shorter barrel version. That's as conclusive as I can get.
Just edited my above post.
If there are no numbers, how can it be 100% matching?
Ravinder imported barrels and receivers and I believe para lowers. Someone could have collected the parts and assembled it on the PAC receiver.
I'll send him this link.
Ravinder imported barrels and receivers and I believe para lowers. Someone could have collected the parts and assembled it on the PAC receiver.
I'll send him this link.
Well, that's good to know. Found this one too.
It was from the Enterprise deal that had been parked. Put all the parts on the other except the lower and BCG. I can't find the reparked BCG that was matching and have no recollection of selling. When I mean matching there are no other numbers. Picked up the conversion kit from Lee and found a bolt at Numerich IIRC. Was able to score a set of NOS hgs that came off of an SAR 48 that got sold here with wood HGs that he had posted saying he wanted an additional $80 for the original HGs. The guy who bought the rifle declined and I swooped in. You going to get that 72" Hustler? That looks bad ass for a place like yours.
Planning on it. I don't have two nickels to rub together right now, as I've had to cash flow building the new place for almost 2 years, but I should clear $450k + when escrow closes in 7 days. Gonna buy the mower, a tractor, build a second 40x60 for garage and stuff, and maybe buy back some of the guns I had to sell to make it through the last 2 years. I thought about just paying this place off, but I'm not going to find a 3% construction loan today. Dave Ramsey wouldn't agree, but I can just double my mortgage payments and use the money for working capital. Pay it off in 10 years.
On the other hand, this is the 4th time the house has been under contract in the last year, and the other buyers flaked or couldn't meet their contingency times. Wouldn't surprise me if something goes wrong and I have to start all over again.
Nothing wrong with that plan. Wife and I should have ours paid off in August after 6 years here. Ramsey would not have athr pproved either because I pulled about 13% out of my 401K and we ponied up the other in cash. I am over 59 1/2 so there is no penalty. His saying that paying 24% tax, which is our bracket is like paying 24% on a loan. I say bullshit. The money was never taxed and you have to pay the piper. His other thing is that stocks yield 10% a year consistently. I am 62 and the wife is 60. The market has been in lull for the past 2 years. So basically think about that it's probably now 10% of the number of years we have left to live.
(thread digression) I didn't make any contributions to my SEP or Roth IRAs the last two years because I needed the cash to build the new shop. And I started late with retirement anyway - figuring that inventory I could turn multiple times a year, and capital equipment to make stuff, would beat 10% ROI. And I'm never going to retire anyway, because I love what I do. Not sure if I can retroactively make my Roth max. But anyway, what frightens me is that I will have a physical injury or illness that makes me incapable of working until I die. So I need to revisit "retirement".
I paid off the other house about 10 years ago, and the sense of freedom and comfort being completely debt free is something I want to have again.
Heck, a 40 hour week would be a vacation. Sunrise in the summer is 0445 so I have the animals (and me) fed and am turning on equipment at 0600. My dad is 84? and is cutting back to 30 hours a week.
I paid off the other house about 10 years ago, and the sense of freedom and comfort being completely debt free is something I want to have again.
Heck, a 40 hour week would be a vacation. Sunrise in the summer is 0445 so I have the animals (and me) fed and am turning on equipment at 0600. My dad is 84? and is cutting back to 30 hours a week.
