DSK wrote:

It's one of the settings for select fire. Pull the trigger, it
squirts out 3. Usually a pretty tight group even from the shoulder, too.


Nav wrote:

I think it must be a different rifle than the NATO version 'cos the
selector on the ones I've fired only had a safe and semi position.


All the NATO infantry arms I'm familiar with have full auto, some have
3-round burst.

As for 3-round burst selective fire, you could learn a little about it
with a very simple Google search.

... To modify it to full auto was, I believe, a courts martial offense.



I didn't realize that any national army didn't trust it's infantrymen
with the option of full auto fire.

... I must admit that I don't see how the simple firing mechanism
could be modified to make a 3 round burst -full auto is simple the
selector just needs filing down so that when rotated further it can't
recatch the mechanism.


Why do you try and bull**** everyone when you ought to realize you don't
have a clue what you're talking about?

But Doug, it's you that is saying the FN FAL has a three round burst
selector, not me. When I fired it that was not the case, and when it was
used by the British Army it had no full auto capability either. When I
took a weapons maintenance course at the British School of infantry at
Warminster (which included servicing and testing the FN semiautomatic
rifle) there was discussion about how it might be illegally modified. At
no time was an automatic controlled burst discussed as an option. I'm
prepared to accept that some clever chap may have worked out how to do
it but I don't see how.


And to think, in this great modern age of the Info Superhighway, you
could become an expert of at least Jaxxian proportions very simply.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...=Google+Search

So, I followed your directions and typed in "FN FAL 3 round burst select
fire" and cant't find a site that says the FN has a three round burst.
But you say it does -so why not post the reference so I can read about it?


As far as balance, I'd say the muzzle tended to kick up about 4" so
that by the time you've let it fall and the next round is chambered it
would be hard to be accurate if the next shot were fired as soon as
the recoil mechanism closed the breach. In that sense I'd say it was a
bit muzzle end light for accuracy on full auto.


IIRC the 3-round burst fires from open bolt.

You don't know what that means either, do you?


No, I have no idea how one might modify a old standard NATO FN FAL to
fire an automatic three round burst. Perhaps you can explain?

Cheers