Well, you probably already know you need something low. Very low. FAL was designed to keep the head down in combat (according to the manual) and that's why the sights and everything are so damn low on that rifle. I tried to make one into an SDM rifle some years back and gave up. Though the Steyr barrel is supposedly the best FAL barrel ever made and I got a new one, I still get this flier I can't account for that ruins an otherwise great group, it's good for 1.5-2 moa --until that 4moa flier fucks it all up. I think it may be something to do with the handguard but I can't be certain. It could be me and the shitty relationship I have with my optic.
Despite them working better with a low mounted optic, Canada issued 'em with Elcan 3.4x optics and you can find 'em for pretty good deals here and there. I got one for $400 ten or twelve years ago. Tritium is dead, I have a lamp for it but don't know how to install it properly with the gas and all. Without it, it works fine but maybe one day I'll find someone that can help install the tritium or convert it to battery. It's also obvious in the picture that I need something to build up a cheek weld. I think they make some kind of plastic device for this that fits these stocks but I don't know what it's called, who makes it or where to find it. DSA didn't have one last I checked.
I forget what it is but there was a scope made for these that was really low. Then there was the Trilux sight, or SUIT. You can still find these with battery upgrades to 'em for fairly cheap. Or you could. I still think a low mounted optic to be ideal though, lower than what I have.
Another good, inexpensive option IMO is the 1-4x Vortex PST something something. Mount it in the lowest rings you can get away with, it'll be about the same cost as the Elcan I have. OR you can go with a nicer optic. An ACOG --DSA makes a scope mount top rail cover with a cutout in the rear so an ACOG can mount direct to the rail, keeping it even lower, but I think a 1-4x (or straight tube scope) mounted as low as possible would be ideal. I have a USO 1-8x that works like a tree reticle at higher mag and a dot reticle at very low mag and it's straight and would be an ideal optic (and can be found in PX here for a good deal, where I found mine).
This rifle has a Steyr barrel which they say is the best barrel ever made for the FAL, and a newer Jard trigger (BIG thumbs up to Jard for their outstanding CS). Cerakote is Patriot Brown and FDE on the plastic and black small parts in case anyone is wondering, and SDN6 can. The folder really adds even more recoil to a hard kicking rifle and takes away any cheek weld you may have had.
Still a sexy bitch some 70 years on...
View attachment 7318363 This is on my .22 and it's in fairly low rings but it could go lower for the FAL... It's the Vortex 1-4x I was talking about and it'd make a good solid scope for just about any application really, including the FAL. This one is MOA but I think they make 'em in mil too.
View attachment 7318374 For a dot, just get whatever quality one that floats your boat that you can mount low. Maybe a Trijicon, maybe a Mepro. Or an Aimpoint, preferably the larger model. Whatever, mount. it. low.
If you're interested in an adj. Magpul PRS stock and/or complete FAL lower, PM me, we can work out a trade or sale.