![]() ![]() ![]() At a time when concealable guns were mostly. I later learned from the innernetz that these were prone to have the problems I experienced.Ī miniature 1911, right? Or at least it looked it. He determined that the bolt head was starting to mushroom and headspace was already into the dangerously too much zone. I couldn't figure out why the gun had trouble extracting after a couple hundred rounds. I knocked a corner off of it with just a minor bump. I had to sell the gun quickly, afraid the whole furniture set would disintegrate from very little use.Īnd on that day I learned the hard way: Chinese guns are junk. There were no replacement parts available at the time. I glued the rubber butt plate onto the stock and it worked, but then the handguards started wearing excessively and becoming loose very quickly. I think the retainer was broken already but took that little bit of torque to make it give way. Retainer for the nut to hold the rubber butt plate to the stock broke the first time I tightened it just a little bit. Perfect combination of the AK and AR, right? Wrong. I'm convinced if James Bond had been a real guy he would have defected to the Soviets just to get a Makarov. Sold it and bought my first Makarov, which was everything the PPK/S wasn't. James Bond would have died a thousand times if he had carried it. Most stated that they had seen a lot of problems with the US-made ones. It was the pre-internet era, so I chatted up every FFL I could about whether it might just be my gun or the whole run. He even had trouble: it was returned to me with fresh scratches on the slide. I had to have a gunsmith install the new extractor and reassemble it for me. I broke the extractor trying to reassemble it. 32 (there were no other models at that time). ![]() 25 caliber sucks, but the Seecamp guns were so hard to get for a time that I jumped on this one because I knew I might be old and grey before I even saw a. I had one for exactly a week and sold it to finance a Galil, which I loved. Oh, and the high quality steel mags were both rare and expensive by 1992. You had to use the STANAG mount to put a scope on it. If you made a mistake reassembling the bolt carrier group, it required thumbs of steel to move the bolt back into the right position to put it in the receiver. 308's after shooting factory ammo all day. The fluted chamber made it so you couldn't save money rolling your own. I'm not talking about one defective or bubba'ed example of a fine design: I'm talking about hating an entire design after thinking it was going to be your favorite firearm.Īfter a buddy enthusiastically declared it to be the perfect combination of AK reliability with sniper precision, I plunked $1,200 down on one (1992 prices after the 1989 import ban). Then you shot them, carried them, cleaned them, and then dang near wanted to throw them in the river. We've all run across them: that wonderful work of art that was supposed to "complete" your firearm collection, or at least make you think you'd "arrived." ![]()
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