Today’s Photo of the Day features the DS Arms SA58 FAL equipped with a 21-inch standard-profile barrel chambered for 7.62×51mm NATO. This configuration uses Mil-Spec barrel steel, a chrome-lined chamber and bore, a 1:10 twist rate and a bipod-cut profile with a front sling swivel. The barrel is threaded 9/16×24 right-hand and fitted with a long, slotted flash hider that also serves as a bayonet mount.
POTD: “The Cuban” - DS Arms SA58 FAL
“The Cuban” refers to a specific FN FAL pattern built for Cuba in the late 1950s, before the Cuban Revolution cut off Western arms imports. After the revolution, some rifles remained in service with Cuban forces, while others spread to other conflicts. As usual, Forgotten Weapons has more details if you want to dive into history.
The rifle is built on a Type 1 carry-handle-cut receiver machined from 4140 steel. It uses a non-sand-cut bolt carrier, a left-side non-reciprocating metric charging handle and a forged steel lower with the model’s triangle marking. Furniture includes a Turkish walnut humpback buttstock along with U.S.-made glass-filled nylon handguards and pistol grip.
Sighting equipment consists of an elevation-adjustable front post and a rear ramp sight graduated to 600 meters with windage adjustment. The rifle retains the traditional FAL fixed-stock operating system, using a short-stroke piston, a stainless-steel gas piston and a fully adjustable gas system.
The SA58 “The Cuban” ships with a 20-round metric magazine, sling, manual and hard case. Finish is matte black Duracoat. According to DS Arms, all components are U.S.-made. Price: $1,995.
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