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Originally Posted by Sith
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...
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India may still have facilities to produce inch-pattern SLRs but I'm pretty sure everybody else has shut down about twenty years ago (UK, Canada, Australia). Anybody else using inch pattern bought L1A1s from one of those four countries (although I think the UK and Australia were the main sellers).