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"Here is an update for anyone looking into accuracy potential, about my fn49 8mm egyptian(late 80's import according to the former collection records), it sports a cetme/g3 flash suppressor opened up to 8mm standards, I recrowned the muzzle crown to perfection with a five minute recrown, bore is shiny and nice but has obviously been shot previously in service since the rifling isn't brand new sharp but very good to very good plus.  \nRifle has recoil lug style stock installed in egypt likely supposedly as a replacement in the 50's or 60's, so it is in the stock pretty well and tight and not slopping around like in a recoil lug-less model, with yugo 1957 surplus ball I was hitting at 250 to 300 yards various 1 liter jugs and 2 liter jugs(easy) and especially gallon jugs(easy), I had to shot slightly above the targets on a slight down grade slope on the 50 meter setting due to shooting too high on the next above setting from bottomed out unfortunately, rifle shoots dead center on the bulleseye like it should at 50 meters on the 50 meters setting, so I figure it is as it should be.  Strangely, I though these shot too low, not too high at distance, but differences in ammo etc, who knows, and I was shooting downhill slightly.  \nFor gas setting, I had to close off the gas to about halfway open and a little more open cause cases ejected on wide open gas about three feet then when hot the metal expended caused a stovepipe or two this week only, so closing off the gas improved operation when hot(guess I never shot more than ten rounds at a time), so now little more than half closed it ejects 6-8 feet and no hot stovepiping now.  \nMy front band screw is stripped out, the band threads look worn, and band was previously bent outward where my handguard blew right off in front of a friend due to no handguard retention(until I bent it inwards for this last weekend range trip) who, haha, made fun of my rifle, but after the target grade accuracy with iffy surplus yugo ammo he was trying to talk me out of it, all about it has been his dream and all since a kid in the 60's to have one, to bad so sad as we say, with that kind of accuracy with that ammo, it would be best to sell off other more modern rifles that aint as accurate first if I was ever desparate.  \nHeadspace checks with forster headspace gauges as excellent, that could have something to do with it, or most of it.\nNow, if I would just tighten up the accuracy with a 5 minute recrown job on my 1941 johnson like I did on the fn49 I will be a happy man."
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