embermage
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Have a chance to pick one of these up for around 450. Stock is cracked along the bottom, other than that the metal looks good. Did not have a chance to check the bore. What are your thoughts, yes/no?
FN-49 8MM
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I have a 7.62x51 Argentine I got last year from a board member. Seems the market for the 7 & 8mms starts around $500 and goes up (way up sometimes for a really nice version.) So not totally out of line depending on how bad the crack is (and the remaining condition.) Matching numbers?
My stock was pretty dinged up and I remember looking for a replacement. No one had in stock anymore and sounded like the supply dried up a couple years ago. The different calibers use different stocks so maybe just the argentine ones were sold out - can't remember. I ended up steaming many of the dings out and re-oiling it.
Its a neat gun. Many at the range mistake it for a M1A. You'll need the little pin-spanner tool to adjust the gas port settings. Also check to see what mags will cost. I bought a couple spares for mine for $16ea. No idea what the 8mm ones cost.
My stock was pretty dinged up and I remember looking for a replacement. No one had in stock anymore and sounded like the supply dried up a couple years ago. The different calibers use different stocks so maybe just the argentine ones were sold out - can't remember. I ended up steaming many of the dings out and re-oiling it.
Its a neat gun. Many at the range mistake it for a M1A. You'll need the little pin-spanner tool to adjust the gas port settings. Also check to see what mags will cost. I bought a couple spares for mine for $16ea. No idea what the 8mm ones cost.
jimbobborg
Oddball caliber fan
I liked my 7mm Mauser version, but it chewed the hell out of the brass, even after adjusting the gas. They use standard Mauser clips to load internal magazines. Neat weapon, good thing the Nazis didn't get their hands on the designers.
reverendbeer
Stiff Member
If the crack isn't bad, grab that summbish. If it is bad, talk 'em down to $300 and wait for a replacement to pop up on electronic bay or the broker of gun.
reverendbeer
Stiff Member
According to this thread from 2008, .30-06 stocks can be modified to fit...
They also say that Wenig's will make make one for you, to original spec, but I've been to scared to call them because I'd almost certainly get one made in some manner of unobtanium wood that would cost more than my FN-49 was...
Various other minutiae can be gotten from Numrich and Liberty Tree.
They also say that Wenig's will make make one for you, to original spec, but I've been to scared to call them because I'd almost certainly get one made in some manner of unobtanium wood that would cost more than my FN-49 was...
Various other minutiae can be gotten from Numrich and Liberty Tree.
- Oct 8, 2007
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if everything else is good, its a decent buy.
mawkie
C&R Whisperer
I've done it. Bought one of the Century Egyptians built from the big pile of spares they got along with all the complete, original FN-49s back in the early 90s. When the blew through the spare factory stocks they contracted an Italian manuf. to build copies for them out of this funky looking beech with a cheesy plastic buttplate. But hell, the parts were NEW so if you wanted a shooter it was a good deal at $300. Later on I got sick of looking at that stock and purchased a factory 30-06 furniture set from Northridge when they were on sale for $75. If the receiver has the eagle crest then it's pretty much a drop in using 30-06 buttplate. There will be a gap around the TG but no easy way around it. Here's a thread over on Gunboards with info from Goose52 who wrote the best reference work on the FN49 and photos of my 30-06 stocked Egyptian.
That's a pretty piece of wood as well.
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