The right side of receiver is marked 'FABRIQUE NATIONALE D'ARMESHERSTAL BELGIQUE. The receiver is marked 'AL' for 'Armee Luxembourg' on the top and has Belgium acceptance proofs. Excellent Luxembourg Contract FN49 Semi-Automatic RifleThis model is one of the scarce 'Luxembourg' Contract rifles produced in 30-06 caliber and it is estimated that less than 10,000 were produced in this contract.

I've got your data on the 2 Egyptians and the 1 Venezuelan which brings me from 297 up to 300 rifles in the data base I can't quite decipher your other entries however.It was given the designation of SAFN Model 1949 by Fabrique Nationale but also came to be known as the FN-49 and Fusil Automatique Modele 49 over the course of its career. Dana Thanks very much for participating in the survey. Shame on me.Buy FN 49 Argentine.308 Low serial number: GunBroker is the largest seller of Semi Auto Rifles Rifles Firearms All. Didn't get around to taking it apart and doing a deep cleaning until recently. I picked this rifle up a while ago.

I now have data for 664 FN-49 rifles in my data base. I have been running several FN-49 surveys on a number of Boards for. For some reason they were never marked.Fn 49 Rifle Stock. So I have to assume my rifle was a Navy Arms import. 30 imported by Navy Arms in 1986 and at least one by Century Arms (unknown if more, but only one has been documented.) Interestingly my rifle has no importer markings, which is consistent with other Navy Arms imported Egyptian sniper rifles. Only around 30 imported into the US.

Burleson, Serial Number: 38132019. No other imports to any other countries are know to have happened, and there are no other Egyptian sniper rifles know to be in private collections in any other countries.49. Any chance thats the serial number of the rifle Lets see some.

These numbers are not related to the serial number of the rifle. This scope is numbered 0592. Each scope has a Meopta serial number.

The base on this rifle is numbered '855' in Arabic language numerals.The rifle uses the standard 'large ring' ECHO made mount found on all the other FN-49 sniper rifles.All of the Egyptian sniper rifles were converted into sniper rifles in Egypt, not by FN in Belgium. The OIP bases have their own serial numbers, but like the Meopta scopes have no correlation to the rifles serial number. This mount had to be milled off and the scopes extension tube elongated in order to be held by the Echo mount and to allow for proper eye relief.This rifle has the proper OIP made 1955 side base with it's two tension screws. This rifle has the rifles serial number engrave into it in Arabic.The Meopta 2.5x6В°P scopes had to be substantially modified by the Egyptians to work with the Echo mounts and the OIP made 1955 scope bases.The Meopta scopes originally had a angular mount cast into the bottom of the scope body for use on the Czech vz54 sniper rifle.

Anyone who enjoys a good read should buy a copy. Wayne helped me confirm the legitimacy of my rifle.If anyone is interested in learning more about these wonderful rifles, Wayne just this last year published a second edition of his book. But the Egyptians did the assembly.It is believed that the Egyptians only assembled around 100 or so of these sniper rifles.I owe a great thanks to the Wayne Johnson who is the author of the book titled 'The FN-49 The last Elegant Old-world Military Rifle'. They also contracted for and installed the OIP bases.It is unknown who modified the Meopta scopes.

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