Valmet : Where in God's name are they all hiding
- Thread starter Ceiferiro
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It's been an ongoing project for years, but just never have time to finish it. I've decided it's probably going to be on the EE in the near future. With the parts I have mounted, it can be used as what a Valmet Hunter always should have been as-is with the addition of the trigger guard. Additionally I was planning to have the muzzle threaded for the flash hider, and with the Galil stock and furniture it would make a pretty decent Galil clone. Would be easy enough to alternate between the two formats
Sweet gun! You don't have a spare stock bolt you could sell me, do you? Or even know the thread? I need one for my M78... don't ask....
The Galil receiver cover? No fitting required. The parts that will require a gunsmith are mounting the handguard retainers, threading the barrel, and fabricating a removable filler block for the slanted part at the rear of the receiver when the Galil stock is mounted.
KotKotofeich
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it was M8 0.75 pitch on my stamped m78. My hunters _do not_ use the same thread on the machined receivers.
I think I have a _short_ bolt I had made to use with a stock adapter. Shoot me a pm if you want it.
Thanks, I'll PM you. I discovered firsthand that the Hunter and M78 bolts aren't interchangeable!
Lever Arms sold all the Valmet models ,as he imported them direct. They were reason price wise for what you got.
When the original restricts and probition's were introduced , the list was copied from the import probition made up by
the ATF in America. They didn't want any more foreign assault rifles imported, Canada took the list and restricted some
and prohibited other's and went around collecting them up!
That's when the guns of various manufacturer's disappeared. The Valmet Hunter was ok, but the Norinco direct copy wasn't!
Reason, the Norinco was on the ATF list and the Valmet wasn't
When the original restricts and probition's were introduced , the list was copied from the import probition made up by
the ATF in America. They didn't want any more foreign assault rifles imported, Canada took the list and restricted some
and prohibited other's and went around collecting them up!
That's when the guns of various manufacturer's disappeared. The Valmet Hunter was ok, but the Norinco direct copy wasn't!
Reason, the Norinco was on the ATF list and the Valmet wasn't
If this is directed at me, the rifle isnt mine, ill ask the owner if he minds me posting a pic this weekend and by then ill have the x39 barrel machined so he will want pics too.
A Friend of mine offered to sell me his a few years back for $3000 and I told him he was out of his mind... Really wish I could go back
