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White Israelite:
Israeli pride

My Galil is finished being built :)

It will be shipped back to me soon, the builder is just test firing it a bit to check headspacing. Looks pretty damn sexy, I had to replace the wood handguards but overall looks like they cleaned it up a lot.













WestCoastJTF:
Looks nice!

Galils always look strange to me...they have the AK-47 design with an M-16 mag underneath ;-)  Is that a 16" or so barrel?  I'd be curious to know how it groups at 200m.  The sights look similar to the AK-47 clones...it's nice now that the assault rifle ban has passed that you can get these with the flash suppressor, folding stock, etc.

The only bummer is that right now ammo is too expensive!  Stupid war is driving up the price of everything, especially .223 and .308.

White Israelite:

--- Quote from: WestCoastJTF on December 20, 2007, 01:24:12 AM ---Looks nice!

Galils always look strange to me...they have the AK-47 design with an M-16 mag underneath ;-)  Is that a 16" or so barrel?  I'd be curious to know how it groups at 200m.  The sights look similar to the AK-47 clones...it's nice now that the assault rifle ban has passed that you can get these with the flash suppressor, folding stock, etc.

The only bummer is that right now ammo is too expensive!  Stupid war is driving up the price of everything, especially .223 and .308.

--- End quote ---

The Galil is based off the Valmet RK 62 which is a copy of the AK47 but improved. The differences of the Galil over the AK are mainly cosmetic. Exceptional changes are the sights are much better than an AK47, the charging handle is upturned for use with both hands, milled receiver (reduced recoil and virtually indescructable), better ergonomics (pistol grip) with thumb safety, folding skeleton stock for compactness, 35 round magazines.

The Galil does not use M16 magazines, they are their own design, I can show you the differences of an Ak and a Galil, there are some notable differences

Here is an AK47 for comparison



This is what the Galil is based off of, the Finnish Valmet RK 62. Note the milled receiver and the sights which the Galil is similar.



Also here is the m16 magazine, you'll notice it's not as curved as a galil mag. Also Galil mags hold more rounds than the m16 mags.



Compare to a galil mag



It's possible for a galil to take AR15 magazines with a AR15 mag adapter though I don't see why anyone would want to lose the extra 5 round capacity provided with the galil mags.

While an AK47 is a great weapon, the Galil is an improved AK47, although some people don't like milled receivers due to how heavy they are. The ak47 is a stamped receiver.

Mine is the 18" barrel

In regards to ammo, I purchased some czech .223, some mexican ammo (Aquila), Lake City M855 (green tip), and some wolf .223 (Russian). Got about 600 rounds for the range. I need to get at least 3000 rounds before i'm satisfied.

I'll get some video at the range for you guys :-D

White Israelite:
Actually theres a large misconception, the assault weapon ban didn't prevent you from owning these guns. There were guns known as "Preban" and "afterban" it banned new manufacture of the guns, the only difference now is that you can now modify a post ban gun and get the threaded barrel or folding stock and over 10 round mags.

Unfortunately the Galil is still banned for import, only about 10,000 made it into the country :(

דוד בן זאב אריה:
Cool!!! Do you hunt??

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