Dutch FAL

The FAL, Licht Automatisch Geweer.
After a long and fierce competition against the AR-10, the FAL got adopted in 1965 as the new battle rifle of the Dutch Armed Forces replacing the M1 Garand. The FAL's were 50/50 produced by FN in Herstal, Belgium and Artillerie Inrichtingen in Zaandam, The Netherlands.

The Dutch FAL is a metric pattern FAL and it has alot of unique features and changes to the FAL making it a very variant of the FAL. Like the original FAL, it is chambered in 7.62x51mm NATO and uses a short stroke gas piston and tilting bomt action.

The easiest way to recognize a Dutch FAL is to look at the sights, the Dutch FAL is the only FAL with fully hooded front sights and winged rear sights (which are only windage adjustable, to adjust the range you adjust the front sight). The Dutch FAL's also have a very glossy finish compared to other FAL's with a more parkarized finish. Early Dutch FAL's feature a 2 piece sheetmetaal handguard which were also found on the German G1 and Austrian STG-58. In later years they got replaced by plastic ones. People who used the FAL's were not very fond of the sheetmetal handguards since it transfered alot of heat, and they called it a Koekjesblik, cookietin. Most Dutch FAL's have wooden stocks, only a few later variants featured plastic stocks.

Like any other FAL. The Dutch FAL is able to Nato shoot rifle grenades. And this variant is able to sh**t fully aut0matik
Some other features:

The bolt has a extra firing pin safety and the lug that holds the trigger group fixed to the receiver has a coin slot for easier disassembly.

The Dutch also adopted the KRR 62 (kijker rechtricht 1962, scope straight aim 1962) for the GLA (geweer lange afstand, rifle long distance) as a designated marksman rifle. And the FALO (heavy barreled FAL) as a squad automatic weapon for the Dutch Marine corps, designated the Zwaar Automatich Geweer (Heavy automatic rifle), unlike the standard Dutch FAL, it has traditional FAL sights.

In 1995, the FAL together with the UZI got replaced the Diemaco C7 family of rifles. But it remained in service after it as a designated marksman rifle.