So I bought it right back, and was happy. A few weeks later, I was back in that same gun shop in Boise, Idaho and spied my old C308 – no one had bought it. The rifle never had a malfunction of any kind, using a good variety of military surplus 7.62 NATO ammo – and it was plenty accurate, too. I believe I had at least a hundred spare mags for that C308.Īs is the case at times, I got stupid, and traded that rifle off, and I regretted it the moment I did the trade. And, best of all, used, but as-new Aluminum light-weight paratrooper 20-rd magazines were selling for 99-cents each. And, whoever owned it before I did, performed a fairly decent spray paint can camo paint job on the entire gun – again, not a deal-breaker. One difference was it had a faux flash hider on it, not a deal-breaker. Many years ago, I purchased a used Century Arms rifle that was marked “C308” and it looked very similar to the H&K Model 91 (“HK91”) battle rifle, with only a few slight differences. They are now taking extra care in assembling the military pattern rifles that they are selling.
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On one gun, it simply needed the gas piston rod straightened out – who would have been so stupid to install a bent gas piston rod? Obviously, Century doesn’t test-fire the guns they assemble The good news is that Century Arms has improved their quality control. Fortunately, I was able to do a little gunsmithing on those guns and get them up and running. There were a lot of problems with Century Arms AK-47s not functioning. It has been widely reported that Century Arms, were using trained chimps to assemble their semi-auto only version of the AK-47. However they had a reputation of working without any lube or being cleaned – not the most accurate battle rifles, but they worked. The AKs were used and abused, and rarely cleaned. They were designed that way, so they were easy to maintain by fighters in Third World countries, who didn’t know anything about firearms.
Now, if you know anything about the AK-47 rifle, you know it is simplicity at its best. Then, some years ago, they started making AK-47 style rifles – using a mix of used mil-surplus parts and some brand-new parts. Century used to import a lot of military surplus long guns and handguns, at quite good prices. The couple that I've assembled for customers I just cut the spring to the right length for the properly set up grip.If you’ve been on the firearms scene for any length of time, you will surely know the company called Century Arms. You do need to cut the trigger return spring to the right length - CAI didn't want to solve the problem of making a hole with a little metal shelf in the grip for that spring, so they threw them out and used cut up extractor springs so that the longer spring could just bear on the grip stud. The tab on the trigger plate is no big deal, you don't need it. The easy fix for the grip stud is to use a stepped bushing from the hardware store, 1/4" ID, probably 3/8" OD (check that). Inch lower is easy to go back to what you want. Probably easier to replace the metric lower if needed, I think I paid $30 or so for the one I have. I don't think you can repair a metric lower with the grip stud gone, but you could modify an inch grip to work on the lower. The inch lower will basically have nothing but the trigger sticking out, the metric lower has a couple tabs welded to it that hold the trigger return plunger and spring. You'll need to pull the stock off to tell whether the lower was inch or metric. I don't own one, but I've made a lot of grips for both
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