Review: Williams Arms Company Aluminum "Combat Elite" FAL Receiver

(updated 04-04-06)

	Left side view, nicely machined. Dwight Williams of Williams Arms Company, in Sisters, Oregon, introduced the Aluminum Combat Elite in 2001
	Right side view, lettering a bit large for my taste.
	This inch receiver has clearance cuts for the inch topcover tabs
	Note same clearance cuts on the WAC Aluminum receiver. Note also the hole in floor of receiver.
	ejector block pins machined flush. Very neat. Note unusual mill cut behind hinge pin hole.Lightening cuts and sand cuts done very nicely.
	compare to this IMBEL
	different shape cut on IMBEL
	right side view
	mag well apparently cut to take inch or metric magazines
	rear view
	feedramps cut perfectly
	I recommend strongly against using the WAC Aluminum receiver in a rifle caliber. It endured one man's 1000 round torture test - then cracked. Tested with proofloads by White Labratories, it failed catestrophically. I have personally examined the splintered shards of the receiver. Several other people have had locking shoulders and ejector block pins walk out. I have examined photographs of several other full and semiautomatic aluminum receivers with cracks. Although probably okay for pistol calibers, I choose not to complete this review with a live fire. I have serious reservations about its safety and structural integrity. Dwight Williams has left his customers with a pretty, but useless product.