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Posted: 7/11/2005 7:29:17 AM EDT
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What gives re: magazines? Is there any interchangeability or is metric only for metric and inch only for inch and never the twain shall meet? Metric seems to be more prevalent, but is a metric really the better choice? Or, now that the idiocy of Clinton went sunset, is there that much difference? |
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Inch rifles came from the "ABC's", Australia, Canada and Britain. Most of the rest of the world used the "metric" rifles. A proper "Inch" receiver should be able to use a metric mag. Now the mag will not be as secure as an Inch mag. Function may not be as reliable. I would want to test this setup a while before using it in a SHTF scenario. A metric receiver will not accept an inch mag. Metric kits are more available, so are most of the US compliance parts. Metric mags can be had for as little as $5, Inch mags go for $15 and up. |
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the rear sight will go on as an assembly. the extra 3mm is especially handy for carbine builders. they fold too the safety will go but you may need to dremel it or work a pin off the metric lower the mag release will go but you need the inch screw with it. it's more ambi but i prefer the izzy then 'holland' then std. metric before the inch. just not my thing i guess, i like to hit the release with the tip of the trigger finger and the inch is is less amenable to me nice to have such choices tho! |
I'm thinking I'll do a standard length for right now.
That could be nice, though.
Yeah. I'm thinking of going with a parts kit, though. Get the US parts count up with an American receiver (DSA or Coonan - 1 part), American furniture (3 parts), American gas piston (1 part), US charging handle (1 part) and US hammer, trigger and sear (3 parts). That should keep me out of trouble with the BATmen, even leaving a proper flash hider on. 
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