Hey guys, thanks for tuning in to another video on ForgottenWeapons.
We're on Forgotten Weapons today because
I am shooting my FAMAS in honor of my new book on French military rifles
actually being available and shipping out which is really, really exciting.
So, this time I have got my hands on a PGMP rail for the FAMAS,
which is the proper stable optics mount for it.
I have put on an EOTech because
that's the most common optic actually to find on these.
The new French rifles? They're buying Aimpoint CompM5.
But with the FAMAS a lot of them were using EOTechs.
So I figured we could give that a try.
And today's match is a little bit unusual. It's a team match.
So, who are you?
My name is Jordan. I shoot this match every month.
I decided to be Ian's partner today, so we can have some finger fun.
Yeah, Karl is off on his version of Narnia
So, and you're shooting something almost as weird as this
It's a Blackout SBR, Hera stock,
side charging upper, can, 220 grain subs
basically just lobbing bullets in
Cool. Alright, so let's dive right into the first stage. -Hell yeah
-A are you ready?
-Am I A? -Yeah, you're A. -Yeah
-Shooter B are you ready? -Si, señor
-Shooters ready. Standby ...
-Hit!
-Hit! -Hit!
-No, Ian you need to stay, you can go, keep on going
-Back right to left, right left
-Hit!
-That plate
-Hit! -Hit!
-Alright, should you finish off and show clear
So this is kind of like the first time in a very long time I've done a team match.
This is the first time I've ever done a team match.
This is kind of a fun stage
I really wasn't sure what's into it, like
what are we gonna, like, how could is this really gonna be, but
That was pretty cool!
Yeah it was actually a lot of fun
Yeah I goofed a little bit. I shot ...
I was on the bottom of the the prop, the rifle prop
and I was supposed to hit, you know, we each hit five targets in sequence
and then I was supposed to stay back and hit each of them again
and I forgot about that, and went to bail out after the first five hits
My RO had to be like:
"Hey no you're not done yet. Keep shooting"
Well we've made sure to have you on the bottom for all those rifle hits with that nice FAMAS, so
It worked pretty well actually
Now these were pretty big targets that were pretty close
This was 75 or 80 yards I think?
How's the sight picture with that EOTech Mounted to it?
Well it's ... it's a chin weld
I mean it's very much a ... plunk your chin down on it.
But it works.
You know, it's not one of those weird cheek welds where you don't have anything to index on
Well it do, like, your chin is on top of the action
It's an easy index for that, so
AR works well I assume?
Yeah, as soon as I realized that since we are starting at condition 3
we have to charge the weapon before and I forgot it
Yeah, ran fine.
Not too much drop on the 220 grain subs
That's right. You're shooting 300 Blackout
300 blackout!!!
And you've got a weird side charging AR
Yeah, side charging and all ... and Hera stock, all of the space gun mess...
Not all of the space gun mess, but a lot of it
And the other cool thing I like was the pistol thing
Definitely
What we've been seeing with people shooting this is the second person to arrive
often is able to help pick up a couple of those pistol targets
Yes since they only have to make, like six hits minimum on the target
It's a lot easier for them to switch over and start knocking over whatever steels' left,
which is very helpful for somebody like me.
The other thing is the second shooter doesn't have to try and switch sides of the barricade
Yeah which makes engaging those steel a lot easier, you just have one simple dadadada
First shooter has to shoot ... every time they knock down a plate
they have to switch side to the barricade
Second shooter doesn't have that restriction, so
And the ROs can say it a hundred times and you still forget
Yeah, but you're supposed to do it
So all right we got one more stage
because this is a team match we've only got two stages today
So that's go and see what's that one's like
-Shooters are you ready?
-Ready
-Understand your sequence of fire?
-Yep
-Standby ...
-Hit!
-Hit! Abandon it safely!
-Nice
-You should get a back brace, so you could carry the team even harder
-Hit the stoplight
I'm sorrrrry!!!!
Just hit the stoplight man!!!
Well I gotta say, I'm ... pretty happy with that one
I'm less happy than you are but overall pretty happy
What we have really seen here is the ultimate triumph of the FAMAS over the AR-15
Yeah
So because ... I think people only follow ... we only have one camera following me
You had a lot of malfunctioning with the rifle, right?
I did
Didn't really clean it last time I used it
and the amount of gas I'm getting from this can——
is just making all the bullets black
so I think there's just a lot of built-up residue,
but luckily it's a side charger,
it's super fast to just kick them out and get back on target, but
So you did that deliberately so it will be more silent
because you weren't getting the bolt clap, right?
Yeah, it's more a more of a De Lisle carbine kind of effect, but
I wanna thank you for taking care of all of the pistol steel so that I didn't have to do it
Dude I was so happy with how that went
So my pistol to match the FAMAS, my pistol, is an early Beretta
It's not an actual French Beretta
because the French do manufacture this under licences and use it as the P ...
I don't remember what it is right now. I ought to know that, but
“The G model”
At any rate, I'm using a Beretta because that's the most common French sidearm and
Man, I almost went one for one on those plates
So I'm ... that's not normal for me
I'm really happy with all that have turned out
Yeah, it's a lot better than what I would have done, so I appreciate it
You bet
Overall the team thing, I think was really cool
Awesome
and probably my favorite part other than, you know the shooting and stuff was
when you have disparities and shooters like Ian's a much better shooter than I am normally
the team kind of evens it out, so
If this was a single thing you'd probably be doing
you know, 40 second stages and I'd be doing 80 second stages
We kind of get that middle ground so I think we were in the low 80s on both stages
Yeah we actually ... I think ... I don't know the scores yet
but we did reasonably well
So it was pretty cool
For my part the EOTech here, my PGMP rail has just a little tiny bit of play in it
and I had a little bit of trouble on that first stage hitting all the targets
and I don't know honestly
I need to go in there and see if this is something I can tighten up a little bit
Obviously the hand guard on the FAMAS was really not intended to mount optics
So this has been reinforced with this big block here down into the receiver area
If you want to know more about the FAMAS and its modernization systems
check out my book - "Chassepot to FAMAS French military rifles"
which is now actually printed physically available and shipping
So you can find it at headstamppublishing.com or French rifle book.com
I've got a link to that down in the description
and in commemoration of that I thought it'd be a lot of fun to bring out
the new and improved EOTech mounted FAMAS today, so
Anything else you got for people?
Nope, not really
Alright. Thanks for watching
Thanks Jordan for joining me for the match
Thanks for having me and putting up with me
Haha we'll see how we did. That's it