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- From: towle@vssteg.enet.dec.com (Clark Towle Gunsmith)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Norinco M14/Mini14/SKS
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.153041.15233@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:59:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.035225.20733@nuscc.nus.sg>, swkmorri@nuscc.nus.sg (Perry Morrison (Dr)) writes...
- #I'd like to hear people's views on the relative merits demerits of
- #Norinco's M-14 copies, Mini-14 (.223) and SKS. I'm looking for a
- #general purpose rifle for foxes, pigs and maybe even self defence---
- #eventually. Please address reliability, accuracy, weight, cost (tough
- #I know), cost to feed it, parts availability in general.
- #
- #Any help GREATLY appreciated.
- #perry morrison
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- The Norinco M14 clones are garbage. The parts are soft, tolerences are lousy
- and the threading is sized metric. This means that if anything ever breaks,
- you can't use a genuine GI replacement part. You'll have to find someone who
- stocks the Chinese parts. (Nessard).
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- When the "genuine US Mil spec" clone kits appeared on the market myself and
- another good friend who is also a match armourer/gunsmith each bought a kit
- just to see if the fantastically low price was worth it. To make a long story
- short it wasn't. The worst part was trying to get the barrel to headspace.
- 4 different US made aftermarket receivers were tried and headspace was unsafe
- in all of them.
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- The "bannana bill" stuff aside, Mini-14 is ok I guess if you just gotta have
- something that shoots 223 and aren't concerned about losing most of your
- brass. The "raunch rifle" throws the empties about 50 feet.. The biggest
- drawback to the Mini-14 is its woefully inadequate accuracy.
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- The SKS?? Go for it... Definitely one of the best buys on the market. Its
- accurate enough for hunting, fires a round that's in the 30-30 power range,
- its a fun plinker, surplus ammo is as cheap as dirt, federal loads an
- excellent soft point hunting load, the rifle is like a Timex,,, it takes a
- licking and keeps on ticking.
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- Out of the 3 you listed the SKS would be my choice.
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