FN’s FNAR Standard and Heavy Bolt Action Rifle
A descendant of the legendary Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR), the FNAR — available in standard or heavy — puts autoloading speed and bolt-action accuracy into one powerful package. Chambered in 7.62×51mm NATO (308 Win.), this versatile rifle offers an ambidextrous magazine release and a standard contour 20” cold hammer-forged MIL-SPEC fluted barrel with hard-chromed bore and target crown. Models with 10 or 20-round detachable steel box magazines (DBM) are available. A one-piece, receiver-mounted MIL-STD 1913 optical rail comes standard with a trio of similar accessory rails attached to the stock’s fore-end for mounting a battery of tactical lights and lasers.
Accessories available for purchase include rings, scope and a bipod.
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January 2nd, 2009 at 7:10 pm
HEY!!!! Guys you all are barking up the wrong tree!! I own the new FNAR in heavy barrel, you MUST shoot this rifle!!!! I have a friend handload some berger 155grain ammo and I CAN cloverleaf a hole at 100 yrds EVERYTIME I shoot. The bull barrel has to help because it never does pull off after several shots. I have had NO malfuntions and with my Millett tack scope it is as sexy as a new corvette!!!
December 28th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
You dont get it. The purpose of this weapon is to provide the tactical user a very accurate weapon with high capacity magazines. Yes the AR10 can be the same….Although it is heavier and a DI gas system as opposed to this short stroke gas piston system. This gun will run very very clean. Yes you have to clean the barrel through the muzzle but it is chrome lined and still gaurantees a 1moa accuracy level. Even though it is based on a hunting rifle (I have three browning semi autos and none of them produce 1moa accuracy) I believe it is better made.
Spend the money on an AR10 and lug that big heavy bastard around! I have one of these in light barrel OTW and im sure it will provide more than enough to do its job!
Matter of fact while your cleaning your AR10 I will still be shooting!!!
December 7th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
yea well glass bed the stock it’ll be a real tackdriver.
November 28th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Yes, this is NOT a John Browning BAR of WWI and WWII fame. This IS a Browning Arms sporting rifle model BAR, with matte black finish, black polymer furniture with pistol grip, and a flouted barrel to make it look tactical. As a serious precision weapon, it’s not. Neither the gas operating system, nor the bolt, can be removed and/or disassembled for routine cleaning, and the barrel must be cleaned from the muzzle. Really kind of a joke, that is how desperate FNH USA is to sell it’s overpriced products.
November 27th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
This looks to me like a new painted version of the commonly known BAR hunting rifle still in use today and not the old BAR used by our troops in WWII. Plenty of reasons to go with 7.62 over ‘06. Ammo availability on the battlefield and very close ballistic performance are the first two that come to mind. It doesn’t matter though this weapon is a failure out of the gate and will go nowhere. We already have AR based platforms that handle this chambering nicely with proven reliability. They are instantly familiar to our troops with abundant parts from multiple manufacturers. This is a classic example of a hunting rifle painted black with a pistol grip being pawned off as “tactical”.
November 24th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Descendant of the BAR my ass…..BAR=squad automatic weapon, full auto, this thing = sniper rifle…….I predict it will go nowhere……7.62 = NO BIG DEAL……build it in .338 Lapua and it might have a future, IF it’s as accurate as they say…..
November 24th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
7.62 is a plenty powerful enough standardized NATO round, plus it helps with the weight versus .30-06. If you want to take out cars, get yourself a MA-Duece. Think this is heavy? Pick up and carry around an old BAR, M-60, or even a fully loaded M240. I, for one, am looking forward to seeing this weapon in the field.
November 24th, 2008 at 11:27 am
WHY IN 7.62? WHY NOT IN THE ORGINAL LOAD .30/06 ? why cant we make this thing lighter?