Most people who know me know I am not really the type to go out and get a gun that is different from the norm of ARs and AKs. But for some reason when these started coming out all I could think about was how in some of the most hard core soldier of fortune dudes were running these.
First impression:
Neat, full metal, rather heavy, loooong barrel with the flash hider on, so I took it off.
The internal barrel is 509mm which I changed to a madbull tight bore right off the bat. I didnt need to break open the gearbox because the thing was shooting 340-350fps with 0.2g bbs right out of the box. It was a bit of a pain to change that too, but luckly Jared over at the gearbox was able to help me out getting it all back together, to which he remarked "King arms fal, sig arms in disguise" (to the tune of transformers). Internally it shares the hopup and mechbox with a sig, so that should make sig fans happy that there will be parts available in the future that are compatible. The Charging handle is sticky but I haven't oiled it yet so that may just be how it is. The selection between modes of fire is nice and crisp and the operation of it is nice and tight. I will make an effort to do some range testing in the future with it, but as of now the furthest I have shot it is 10ft.
The mags are 90rnd midcaps and thanks to the gearbox I have 4 in addition to the one that it came with (thanks king arms for not selling the gun with a hicap). The battery area on the para is a bit limited to small stick batteries but that is ok with me because my other gun is my Dboys AK that takes the same thing. The balance point without the mag is right over the handgrip, nice until you realize the para stock is almost half the weight of the gun because the whole thing is cast metal (even the rubber pad).
Here are a few closeups that I took today:
Pros: Nice model of a historic weapon, should have good range and reliability with the barrel and hopup.
Cons: Limited battery space, the para stock is wayyyyy to heavy, difficult to take apart, some minor casting blemishes. oh and fal mags are freaking huge, yes even bigger than m14 mags, though not tapered thank goodness.
I am on the lookout for a solid stock before I start drilling out parts of the para stock to save weight.
Oh and I couldn't have a bunch of mags sitting around so I made a little rhody chest rig to hold em. Now you guys may understand who the dude in shorts was at the last game, and why.
