a Dutch FAL is basically like any other FAL so unless you're trying really hard to be stitch accurate Dutch (and you could just use another FAL for it) there isn't a reason to spend £270 for an airsoft RIF. You can buy a metric FAL Wooden parts kits in the UK or via the US pretty easily and usually around the $300 mark. You used to be able to get deact SLRs or FALs in the UK for £300 as well.
Also for reference, you can have a G1 style FAL stock made to order here -
https://www.kalashnicarver.com/G1-Style-FAL-Stock-p556431774 at $210.
Might i suggest a place called The FAL Files. Probably have better luck there trying to sell it.
Hey buddy, so Kalashnicarver doesn't sell to the UK. Guess how I know. In fact, most places that sell fal parts, particularly in the US don't sell things outside of there.
It is a lot of money, no doubt about that, but it's also a piece of wood for a specific rifle that was manufactured roughly 60 years ago. I have spent FAR more on FAL stocks for specific kit, and this stock itself was brought from the Netherlands for 250, and needed some fair tlc to be something you'd want to put your face on.
I'm not expecting the average person to want to buy it, and that's all good. But as someone who has been buying and selling FAL stocks for some time, it's pretty fairly priced in the market. Getting FAL wood in the UK is pretty impossible (at least for metric) and buying outside of the UK is a hassle at best, a gamble with customs and taxes at worst. It also often requires going and finding people who are willing to sell it and post it to you, and as someone who has frequented Falfiles for some time, it's not always as easy as you think.
I'm fairly surprised I haven't seen this on here sooner, as a lot of folks aren't going to realise just how dire it is to aquire stuff like this without serious connections or effort. But I also have no illusions that this is a VERY specific part, so the right buyer is probably few and far between, but I have time to spare, and I can't with good conscience lower it any further
Also in answer to your "just like any other fal" statement, the Dutch has a pretty specific sling loop on the buttplate, which is a sod to get in and of itself. There also folks out there who will spend 1000s on bits of kit that you can find reproduction from most airsoft stores for a fraction of the price, it just depends on the person, I frankly don't think it's on you to govern how people spend their money in this hobby.
If you can find me a metric fal parts kit in the UK, by all means please send the link to me, i'd love to investigate, as i'm still looking for parts a few years on
I mean no ill will when I say this, but from the way you've been speaking about availability of parts, and of prices of deacts, you've been out of the loop for a moment, in the last two years alone i've watched prices for deactivated fals jump a couple of hundred pounds. Between the current economic climate, and the inevitable nature of surplus becoming more scarce with age, the prices of such things are increasing at a dramatic rate.
I will say that INCH stocks can still be found at a decent price in the UK, and even some airsoft websites sell the wood kits for them on occasion, however they require parts to convert them, and often at lower price points they will come almost too damaged to use, something I have also learned personally when I snapped up an Aussie stock for an slr build, it's more a suggestion of a stock than something i'd trust
www.usedairsoft.co.uk
