Argentine FAL kit.

[Anzac15]

Picked this Argentine FAL kit up this past weekend, going to have it built. It came with a Century receiver. Wondered if anyone had experiences, good or bad, with these receivers. Or should I spring for, say, an Imbel?

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[Paul S.]

Your receiver is marked "MADE IN USA". I would hope that it is as good as the L1A1 on a Canadian made Century receiver I had ~25 years ago. It functioned perfectly. My only complaint with it was that it was cut for metric magazines and not the Inch Pattern that I had in quantity.

[browningautorifle]

it was cut for metric magazines

I'd have just opened it up a bit.

[Brian Dick]

It should work OK. I've had to tune up many of the Century builds over the years including one post sample MG so if you have someone competent building it and the parts kit isn't very tired, it should be functional. The Imbel receivers are better IMHO.

Paul S, the "Century Arms rifles marked "Made in Canada" were a bit befuddling to me because they sported metric pattern Imbel mfg. receivers if memory serves.

[Anzac15]

Thanks guys. Always get a little twitchy when I see 'Century'!

[Paul S.]

... the "Century Arms rifles marked "Made in Canada" were a bit befuddling to me because they sported metric pattern Imbel mfg. receivers if memory serves.

Tah for that Brian. You've explained away a little mystery. I often wondered why Canada would make metric pattern receivers when it had produced inch pattern ones for decades. Surely, they would have still had the engineering drawings if not the tooling from their C1A1 production. So, now I know that the "Made in Canada" marking meant it had truthfully only been assembled there.

[Brian Dick]

I'd guess that they were assembled at CAI's facility in PQ and then imported just over to VT. Their US warehouse was just over the border. They've since moved the HQ to Miami. I'm not sure if they retained their places in PQ and VT or whether everything is done in FL now. Somebody told me they had their own ship for transporting loads of stuff from overseas. Not sure if there's any truth to it. I can ask George at Knob Creek.

[browningautorifle]

I'm quite sure CA is long gone from PQ, as in 20 years plus.

[Peter Laidler]

Cutting the magazine lip from metric to Imperial/UK spec is very simple. We (sorry..., the machine shop.....) did about 25 or so for captured FN rifles to be used as DP/training rifles so they could use the UK magazines that we were knee deep in. We also brazed the fluted flash eliminators in place.

[paul87buick]

This looks like a Imbel kit brazilian not argy