Decide to answer the question for myself; bought one in NATO length and installed it on a Hungarian FEG SA2000.
Good points: aluminum with steel tubes, finish is excellent, appears very well made. Very rigid lock-up when extended and I can operate the safety lever with the stock folded to the right. Comfortable check weld, good eye position, my eye is right in line with the Springfield 03A3 receiver sight I riveted to dust cover.
Bad points: a little movement when folded, about a 1/2 inch of play. I had to slightly widen the tang slot of the stock with a Dremel Tool to fit the Hungarian FEG SA 2000 tang. The stock was a very tight fit and the tang holes did not line-up perfectly with the stocks screw holes. Though the screws went in most of the way, I needed to grind down top of the front screw with a Dremel to let the recoil spring assembly fit correctly. Though I have not fired the rifle yet, I doubt the stock will loosen-up from recoil because the the tightness.
Overall I like it and have ordered a couple more for fitting to a Bulgy AK74 kit and a Romy AKM G kit I built on NoDak Spud receivers. Hopefully these will be an easier fit.
Fitted 3 more Falcon folding stocks to the following rifles:
Bulgarian AK74 kit built on an NDS-2 receiver which needed same adjustments as the Hungarian SA 2000, Romanian G kit built on an NDS-3 receiver and it needed the tang slot slightly widened, screw holes almost lined-up, hybrid .223 on a NDS-2 receiver with a Hungarian rear trunion which needed the upper part of the stock be slightly shortened where it contacted the trunion so the screw holes lined-up.
The Falcon stocks are definitely not drop-in but are very well made/finished with very tight lock-up in the open position, only one of the four was slighly loose in the folded position. If you do not mind an hour or two of fitting work these are a very nice Galil type stock for converting fixed stock AKMs and AK74s.
What the Falcon doesn't do is allow the user to fire when the stock is folded. Still waiting for a folding aluminum stock like the one used on the Beryl (at a decent price too).
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