the G-3 is known for its reliability overtime and accuracy (and of course its power, since it fires the huge 7.62 NATO round).

I fired the FAMAS during my military service (target shooting).

It's a bull pup rifle, like the British one, which means the feeding is behind the trigger and chamber.

It's very light, it's easy and fast to clean : you only have 2 or 3 "bolts" (I don't know the word in english, basicaly it's more or less the same kind of thing than to cock a hand grenade if you see what I mean : it

requires no tool other than your hands) to pull off and it breaks open, giving access to moving parts, and especialy the ones you'll check first in a hurry if you jam (chamber/bolt and feed/eject).

It has a selector allowing you to choose beween single, auto or 3 rounds burst (which is a very cool feature because autofire is at best a waste of ammo in most of the cases), but believe me it makes the trigger mecanism something like a swiss watch : don't expect to check or fix it on your own.

another good feature is the built in bipod, allowing really accurate aiming when crouched.

some fun features :

- the strange thing you can see protuding below the rear end of the buttstock is a remote part of the trigger mecanism (yes, it sounds strange) which can be easily removed either to replace it, but it is at first intended to neutralize the weapon (once removed, this part, made of hard plastic, can easily be destroyed).

- as it's a bullpup rifle, the chamber is right at the place you put your head when aiming, buy using the break method above, you configure it to
operate either for left or right handed user. If you got this wrong and fire, it will most probably eject the case right into your cheek !

my general opinion :

it's a very light and compact gun, thanks to the bull pup design. Ideal rifle in small spaces like a nightclub or a grocery lol.

More seriously, during trainings I praised its compactness most of all when...I crawled. You spend a lot of time crawling when training + the
fact you try to crouch to get a better aim whenvever you can, and it's really a pain in the ass to do so with a long gun as an AK or a M16, the FAMAS is 15-20 cm less in size !

The balance is weird (bull pup again) when you wield it at waist or chest height. If you fire in auto in this case, even if the recoil ogf this gun is amazingly weak, it will have a tendancy to nose up because of the balance.

about firing.

the optics are simple : the forward sight is a hole through the "handle" than has a kind of cap allowing for 3 sizes of hole. you just line up the hole with the end of the barrel (classic apperture + blade system). It's adjustable of course.

This gun is very quiet, more than the M-16 while using the same ammo, and has a very tiny slight puny recoil, you really have very good results in early training when firing 3 round bursts (if you fire with the butt braced against your shoulder of course) because of this weak recoil.

In 1 round shooting, it's very precise, you can easily hit a man sized target at 200 m while crouched within a few hours practice.

It has a range up to 300-400m, but I think 300m is the max range when you are well trained, 400m is maybe possible if you're a sniper but I'd say this would be a lucky shot anyway.

So it's more accurate than the AK up to 200m and less accurate than the M16 from 200m on. It's much less accurate than the G-3, from what I know.

In auto or 3 round bursts, of course it's more accurate than the AK and a little more than the M16.

The big drawback (but this is personal) is for auto fire when the gun is held at waist (John Wayne style) or at chest height : the gun is short and the big "handle" on the top makes it hard to accurately point at target. + the weird balance tends to make the gun nose up on auto.

Up to 15 meters it's ok, but between 15 and 50 meters, when you could expect - with some luck - to land the 1st, 2nd or 3rd bullet into your target, I think I'd feel more confortable with an AK or M16.

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