FNAR: Is it based on the BAR (from WWII) or the Browning BAR hunting rifle?
fnhusa.com/le/products/firearms/group.asp?gid...Posted Dec 8, 2009, 10:29 PM UTC
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That's the most awkward looking rifle I've seen in a while. The stock looks like a regular bolt action stock, with the pistol grip hastily added on at an awkward angle. The Picatinny rails look like they are just screwed into the sides to make it look "tactical".
It's probably a great rifle, just looks really weird, kinda like some of the Tactical stocks for the M-14, they look like they just don't belong.
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All of the reports I've heard say it's awesome.
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I shot one in a 308 and it was amazing.
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I have one and it rocks. Very comfortable well thought out rifle design. A joy to shoot.
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On their own website they say it is from the BAR (WWII) but all the reviews say this is wrong and it is based on a hunting rifle called the Browning BAR. Any ideas?
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The origional BAR action (from WWII) is quite a bit bigger than that. It probably means the action design was taken from the BAR, that's about it. Heavily modernized, and lightened a lot to make the hunting rifle.
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This is the BAR Hunting Rifle. I'm assuming that the hunting rifle descended from the BAR and the FNAR descended from the hunting rifle.
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The hunting rifle has pretty much nothing to do with the M1918.
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Not according to FN.
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From the site:
"Descending from the legendary Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) made famous in battle by Allied forces around the globe..."
I think the key word to pay attention to is "Descending". They never actually say that it is based on the M1918's design. It is in fact based on the FN's Browning BAR hunting rifle design. If you look at FN's BAR page the similarities are pretty obvious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_BAR