I Have This Old Gun: FN Model 1949 

"until.... EVENTS.... overcame the country of Belgium" - yeah, I guess you could put it like that

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I am fortunate to own a Venezuelan contract FN-49 and its offspring, an FAL.

My FN49 is the egyptian 8mm in new cond, it's got some earthquake dings since I've had it though😊

I had one of these in 30.06 back in the 80s. I had kicked myself in the backside for years for trading it for something else.

I have one of the Luxembourg contract 30 ought 6 models. These are wonderful guns. To me it's very reminiscent of a M1 Garand same basic weight shape very similar yet very different in some aspects. The comparison between the two is fascinating to me. I love my FN-49. I got it as a young man before the internet it really taken off and it was very easy to research things like that. I had to dig into libraries and newspaper articles on microfiche anything I could find and it was still hard to find out information about it. But it is a great gun very fun to shoot very smooth shooting can shoot the thing all day long. I just wish it could have been finished before the war so it could have been actually used in world war II. It would have been fascinating to see the similarities and differences It would have with the M1 grand in battle. I just say this simply because they are very similar in some ways. But I think this would have been a very great gun in world war II. Would have been very useful. Although I wonder what country would have use The FN. But again it would have been similar to the garand if a country would have used it as its primary battle weapon as it would have been the second gun in world war II to be used as a primary issue rifle that was semi-automatic. I've always wondered how it would work loading it with strip clips instead of the en block clip of the Garand. Although it did have 10 rounds two more than the M1. I think the comparison's just would have been fascinating. I also think FN would have been a great gun in world war II. Like America with the M1 carbines and grands and the fully automatic Thompson's whatever country fielded FN would have had an advantage and using a 10 round semi-automatic rifle. But they're great guns all the way around. I would love to have one chambered in the 308 as well. If I had the money I would collect one from each nation that utilize the FN. But also it's a Great big game rifle. Has great range so you can stretch it out to 200 yards easily if you have the skills to shoot that far. That's not an incredibly long shot anyway but the FN is almost a sure bet from 200 yards on in. And I have the 30 ought 6 model so it can bring down any big game animal in America very easily. Just a great gun and a fascinating gun and a really fun gun to own and shoot.

This rifle was too late for WW2, and quickly obsolete post war.

Fn-49=8mm more powerful than an M-14,longer range.

I had an Argentine FN-49 in 7.62x51. Lovely rifle but very over-gassed even with the regulator nearly shut off. The rifle still retained it's original 7.65x53 gas plug (stamped 7.65) and I'm guessing this is the reason for the over-gassed situation. Will say as expected the workmanship was jaw-dropping, but what's new concerning Belgium made FN firearms. Will never see anything like this ever again.

Looks like Saive might've ultimately taken some cues from the German Gewehr 43?