IN-STOCK: All-New TYPE 81 SR

dropinvancouver said:
what is the use of the screw on the front sight? looks to me you can loose it and move front sight to right
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Adjusting a front sight is opposite. To raise point of impact screw down lower screw up. Sight needs to go left inorder to have point of impact right. Must say tactical imports customer service is great. I emailed describing the issue and within a few minutes they emailed back to tell me to send the rifle back for replacement and they will cover postage.
 
JBD said:
Adjusting a front sight is opposite. To raise point of impact screw down lower screw up. Sight needs to go left inorder to have point of impact right. Must say tactical imports customer service is great. I emailed describing the issue and within a few minutes they emailed back to tell me to send the rifle back for replacement and they will cover postage.
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Id call that basic customer service, anything less then that would be ripping you off.
 
My front sight popped off around 100rnds, picked it up and put Loctite on the bolt and tightened it back on. Still tight after another 75rnds
 
KDW__ said:
The front sight is already as far left as it will go and he's still shooting a foot to the left. If he moves it to the right he will shoot even further left.
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I just checked and realized my front sight is kind of rotated clockwise looking down to the barrel. I might have the same issue as you. Not sure how to rotate the entire front sight, not just shifting the it left or right.
 
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Did this as soon as I received the shipment, but used a stainless steel screw for increased strength since someone had said that their brass screw broke. Not totally convinced that this "fix" provides that much added strength though... Hoping Tactical Imports will come up with a more permanent solution to this serious defect.

bfiles said:
Well as simple as I wanted to makes this all I did in preventative measure was put a simple 1" brass wood screw thru the perfect fit hole just behind the recoil spring:

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I'm more then confident now this will take any unnecessary stress or flex off of those 2 bottom roll pins.

Was this unnecessary, YES. Should we have to do anything like this, NO.
This was an oversight on TI and the designers. Nit their fault but hopefully everyone who purchased these rifles will
A) either get a replacement stock JIC
or
B) they have a remedy from the factory for all of us buyers.

Until then I'll continue to play with and use this rifle without any worry
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The fact the SR still sold out with the known stock issue shows that TI was right that we were the only market on the planet who had a use for a DMR-style Type 81. Congrats on the innovation, looking forward to the official fix!
 
From the comments an Instagram post on the LMG, https://www.instagram.com/p/CkgKiLEL210/:
Ustauk said:
TI already sold out of them in a Canadian specific Type 81 SR with the LMG barrel and a Dragonov style stock, despite a known issue with the stock pin sockets cracking and going to be needing a fix of some kind.
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Tactical Imports said:
Factory investigation revealed it was due to improper alignment of stock during install, if the holes weren't lined up properly then the pins would crack the stock as they'd just be pressed into the wood when installed. However it is a very rare issue, less then 10 units affected
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Ustauk said:
The fact the SR still sold out with the known stock issue shows that TI was right that we were the only market on the planet who had a use for a DMR-style Type 81. Congrats on the innovation, looking forward to the official fix!
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Or more likely since they are available at all the stores I’ve been too, they simply just distributed them to other retailers casting a wider net for more sales. Where as the type 81 rifle had several shipments sold before a very limited numbers were given to other stores.
 
Stevent said:
Or more likely since they are available at all the stores I’ve been too, they simply just distributed them to other retailers casting a wider net for more sales. Where as the type 81 rifle had several shipments sold before a very limited numbers were given to other stores.
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Exactly, he gave them to retail dealers for a substantial discount.
 
Stevent said:
Or more likely since they are available at all the stores I’ve been too, they simply just distributed them to other retailers casting a wider net for more sales. Where as the type 81 rifle had several shipments sold before a very limited numbers were given to other stores.
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Fair enough.
 
Stevent said:
Or more likely since they are available at all the stores I’ve been too, they simply just distributed them to other retailers casting a wider net for more sales. Where as the type 81 rifle had several shipments sold before a very limited numbers were given to other stores.
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plus they sold most of it before there was reports of the dragunov stocks breaking.
 
Received a bunch of emails from retailers announcing SR in stock recently but I still bought one directly from TI after that. 2 guys were having fun with SR on the range yesterday and they ran out of cases of surplus ammo, never saw the stock crack.
 
Has anybody who ordered an LMG from last weeks shipment gotten an email about shipping yet? I'm like a kid before Xmas waiting on that notice from Canada Post!
 
Ustauk said:
The fact the SR still sold out with the known stock issue shows that TI was right that we were the only market on the planet who had a use for a DMR-style Type 81. Congrats on the innovation, looking forward to the official fix!
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They're not sold out at all. How do we know that TI was struggling to sell them to customers and didn't sell these to other retailers ?isn't it strange that tactical were the only ones to sell them.. Then everyone reports the issues and suddenly they're not selling. Now just about every other dealer is selling for a higher price .. hmm I'd almost think they couldn't move inventory and made deals with other retailers to sell for them
 
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