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Originally Posted by Panther Al
The Mags and the whole imperial/metric thing. Its the mags that kill it the most for me. I want to know when I grab a mag, that its going to work. Its not going to be a metric when my rifle is imperial, or vice versa, that it will feed and not jam because I looked at the magazine lips too hard. And the biggest mistake in FAL production was by the Brits when they converted the drawings to imperial when they started making them in England - and promptly sent them everywhere.
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This is becoming less of a problem. I don't know this for a fact, but I believe that all inch pattern rifle production has ceased. Maybe there is one out there churning out spare parts, but the only factories I know of that are still turning FALs are metric. Inch pattern rifles are becoming increasingly rare.
I've been shooting metric rifles for nearly twenty years now and have yet to experience a magazine failure. The only problem I ever had was that one of my past rifles did not like Winchester white box ammo, played with the gas block all afternoon but couldn't get it to work right. Once I switched out ammo it ran quite nicely. I've heard that FALs can be finicky about ammo, and because of that experience I can kind of believe it, but that was the one and only time I had a problem. I've run different ammo through other rifles without any difficulties, so...