Sitting in front of the fireplace and drinking vodka on a blustery winter day while showing my buddy, Bill, how to assemble a FAL lower receiver.

I figured out how to build one first,..made up some tools,..then half the guys at work had to have one.

For a while there, every time I turned around there was somebody with a box of rifle parts knockin' on my door.

But it was a lot of fun,..always turned into a social event with lots of liquor and food,...and I take more than a small measure of pride in the fact that I became aquainted with the process to such an extent that I can build a damn fine example of an FN-FAL even with my blood alcahol level hovering above .2.

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