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Hi Froggy,

hope you enjoyed the shoot on Sunday. Even with your magazine troubles..

you might have to go to alot of trouble to get your AIA to cycle reliably at speed....

and then decide to buy an AR for CSR anyway....

just saying... razz

Salut Individual !!

It was very nice meeting you on sunday & I had a splendid day. Very enjoyable even if indeed from my truly appealing results you might be speaking wise words & have a fairly valid point

Having said that, hopefully, with decent mags (and sh*t loads practice), I'll approach, AIA in hand, the next match with the determination & grit of a North-Vietnamese BoDoi facing the onslaught of superior imperialist & capitalist AR

The AIA (Australian International Arms) is not designed for rapid fire feeding from the magazine can be a problem.
Reloading may help. I tried shooting soup can boolits in mine with reduced loads it was a disaster. I now use a Loverin and it feeds much better.

Reloading may help

Reloading ?? Isn't that a tad "petit Bourgeois" ?

Sorry, but I do feel I need to support work & 5 years production plan of great proletarian comrades from Tula factory

froggy wrote:Reloading may help

Reloading ?? Isn't that a tad "petit Bourgeois" ?

Sorry, but I do feel I need to support work & 5 years production plan of great proletarian comrades from Tula factory

Reloading takes bread from the mouths of the Tovarishchi

froggy wrote:Reloading may help

Reloading ?? Isn't that a tad "petit Bourgeois" ?

Sorry, but I do feel I need to support work & 5 years production plan of great proletarian comrades from Tula factory

Alpha1 wrote:The AIA (Australian International Arms) is not designed for rapid fire feeding from the magazine can be a problem.

As far as I was aware it was meant to be a subsitute for the SKS* as a 'pig' gun - so rapid fire would have been a design factor, even if it doesn't do it well.

*Lost after Port Arthur.

Sandgroper wrote:

Alpha1 wrote:The AIA (Australian International Arms) is not designed for rapid fire feeding from the magazine can be a problem.

As far as I was aware it was meant to be a subsitute for the SKS* as a 'pig' gun - so rapid fire would have been a design factor, even if it doesn't do it well.

*Lost after Port Arthur.

Funnily enough Sandgroper I thought they were designed for that also. I also believe in places like South Australia with no mag size restrictions some people there have left over ak's mags and the like. It just sounds like they got the fitting wrong, thats why I reckon that taking magpul or tapco mags is a safer bet as they can be fettled to give the right amount of play. For Froggy Magpuls are here http://www.lannertactical.com/LanTac-On ... ories.html. Scroll down until you find them. Tapco's are here http://www.brownells.co.uk/epages/UK.sf ... /100010795. Order a few as postage aint that good from brownells.

rapid fire would have been a design factor, even if it doesn't do it well.

I had no real previous experience worth mentioning with the Lee-Enfield and Sunday was a steep learning curve for me. I started the day dropping every time the stock from my shoulder to reload but at the end of the day was kinda ok-ish racking that bolt from my shoulder & managing to fire (inaccurately) about 8 rounds in the time it took Individual to fire 10 and just about to finish his cigarette ... Uuuuups ...

A metal mag would aesthetically be more pleasing but those polymer might indeed be the solution. I saw that Israeli FAB Defence also make them with an "anti tilt" follower.

If the AIA was designed for rapid fire some one got the sums badly wrong no wonder they went out of business. Its a fun gun no way would I try and compete in rapid fire events with it.