Griff Murphey
04-25-2013, 04:15
My new Vepon! Ok basically it is more of a model gun capable of shooting than it is a useful firearm. In this corner, weighing in at over 10 pounds, it's the new heavyweight champion of the world's .22 LR "assault" rifle replicas. The weight is authentic, which is nice. A functioning tangent sight, fully adjustable, provision for an M-98K sling, operating ejection port cover, dummy charging rod, and nice wood complete the illusion. The rifle comes with one 25 round composite magazine. The left side is quite convincing but the right side of the mag has a slot in it that a follower lever tracks in. The plus side is that this feature makes it easy to load.
Incidentally to hit at 50 yards, point of aim, point of impact, my rifle's rear sight was jacked up to one yomp below the "10" mark, so it looks like it is ready to shoot 500 meters. The more I shot it the more the groups seemed to tighten up.
The post front is a needle point as on a 98k. Accuracy was OK, about inch and a half off the bench at 50 yards with Federal semi auto match. My club restricts semiautos to loading 5 rds, even .22's, so I was not able to do much rapid fire, but there were no stoppages after about 75 rounds loaded 5 rounds at a time. I think a little silver rub'n buff on the sharp line angles of the plastic mag would make it more metal looking and convincing.
The trigger is adjustable and I plan to play with that. The literature that comes with it indicates that a 10 round mg is available. This would be good for bench rest, as the standard mag is so long there is just NO WAY to shoot it unless you let the mag hang down behind the bench.
It comes in a yee-hah wooden crate with burned-on Wehrmacht "dirty bird' sans "Schwarstika" as Trevor Howard would say. Kind of a P.I.T.A. to get out of that thing. when you lift it out the buttstock will not be installed, and be advised, the recoil springs are going to start popping out of the rear end. All in all, a fun addition to the military gun collector's armamentarium, a very practical alternative to trying to buy a real one at about 26k or even the new 8mm Kurz replica at ~5k(?)... but not nearly as useful as a good Ruger 10-22! Buy it for fun and you will enjoy it; cost is about $570, retail.
Incidentally to hit at 50 yards, point of aim, point of impact, my rifle's rear sight was jacked up to one yomp below the "10" mark, so it looks like it is ready to shoot 500 meters. The more I shot it the more the groups seemed to tighten up.
The post front is a needle point as on a 98k. Accuracy was OK, about inch and a half off the bench at 50 yards with Federal semi auto match. My club restricts semiautos to loading 5 rds, even .22's, so I was not able to do much rapid fire, but there were no stoppages after about 75 rounds loaded 5 rounds at a time. I think a little silver rub'n buff on the sharp line angles of the plastic mag would make it more metal looking and convincing.
The trigger is adjustable and I plan to play with that. The literature that comes with it indicates that a 10 round mg is available. This would be good for bench rest, as the standard mag is so long there is just NO WAY to shoot it unless you let the mag hang down behind the bench.
It comes in a yee-hah wooden crate with burned-on Wehrmacht "dirty bird' sans "Schwarstika" as Trevor Howard would say. Kind of a P.I.T.A. to get out of that thing. when you lift it out the buttstock will not be installed, and be advised, the recoil springs are going to start popping out of the rear end. All in all, a fun addition to the military gun collector's armamentarium, a very practical alternative to trying to buy a real one at about 26k or even the new 8mm Kurz replica at ~5k(?)... but not nearly as useful as a good Ruger 10-22! Buy it for fun and you will enjoy it; cost is about $570, retail.