Norinco M93 Woodsman? Tips or Tricks? What's your experience?

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Got one of these bad boys on the way from SFRC as we speak. Great to deal with as always.

I have reas a lot of good about them, but just wondering if I can get any opinions, or advice for a new owner.

I have been cautioned about taking it apart, and otherwise expect a reliable little .22.

Thanks in advance,
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They are okay for what they are. I find they are a little more sensitive to how you grip it than some other guns. I'm not a bad shot but I find that I have to concentrate a little more to get the shots where I want them.
Mine seems to hang up with CCI Velocitor. Runs great with Blazer.
Taking it apart is a little hinky and I find other people keep undoing the backstrap on mine somehow, but it's never happened when I shoot it so I'm not sure what they're doing.
I bought it as a beater gun for new shooters. If it breaks, I don't really care. And it's heavy enough to beat someone with if it stops working or to use as a hammer for odd jobs around the house ;)
 
Unless you're wearing a hockey helmet out of season, don't fear taking the slide off for cleaning. Just don't get funky with the slide.

I pulled the mag safety on mine to smooth the trigger pull and make disassembly easier.

They are a very cool gun for the money.
 
I will be sending my RPAL paperwork away in the next day or so and the M93 will be the first pistol i'll be buying, i'll be keeping an eye on this thread in the meantime.
 
Please let me add. It;s built like a soviet $h!thouse. When I say you can use it as a hammer I'm not kidding. It's not pretty, but it works.
 
Yup I pulled the mag safety on mine too. Not hard. I've since sold my though, I never used the thing. I also painted the front sight orange.

The thing that really stuck out to me was that there was no trigger reset. You had to let the trigger run all the way forward after each shot and sometime you even needed to let your finger right off the trigger before it would reset. It was like that before i removed the mag safety so that wasn't the cause. It's not a bad starter/beater gun for newbies, but i never used it.
 
I love mine, way more accurate than either of my ruger .22lr handguns. Bench rested, I can shoot a milk jug reliably at 100 meters, no bs. (aim high!)
Eats everything I feed it, and I rarely do a thorough cleaning, just bore and breech. Stay away from really dirty stuff like rem thunderbolts, and don't worry about it much.
 
ndb86 said:
Yup I pulled the mag safety on mine too. Not hard. I've since sold my though, I never used the thing. I also painted the front sight orange.

The thing that really stuck out to me was that there was no trigger reset. You had to let the trigger run all the way forward after each shot and sometime you even needed to let your finger right off the trigger before it would reset. It was like that before i removed the mag safety so that wasn't the cause. It's not a bad starter/beater gun for newbies, but i never used it.
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(bold) can anyone else say they're M93's had this? almost seems like a deal breaker, but for the money I will likely get one anyway.
 
fred0000 said:
(bold) can anyone else say they're M93's had this? almost seems like a deal breaker, but for the money I will likely get one anyway.
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It very well could have just been mine... I seem to be a lemon attractor... lol

They are a great little starter gun or range beater gun for the money. Just remember what you paid for it when something doesn't function just how you expect it to.
 
Lemon

Mine does not work. It jams all the time. I have fired several hundred rounds through it with three brands of ammo. It rarely fires a full mag without jamming.

Maybe I got a bad one.
 
ALFREDS said:
Mine does not work. It jams all the time. I have fired several hundred rounds through it with three brands of ammo. It rarely fires a full mag without jamming.

Maybe I got a bad one.
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Have you tried winchester power point 40gr at 1300FPS? Mine ran flawless on that.
 
this has been a great thread, the trigger reset problem is either rare or very managable, the videos i've seen on YT show many people easily rapid fireing these pistols.

i've had good luck with 40gr round nose lead HV .22lr in pretty well any 22 I shoot, i'm hoping this pistol likes the same stuff, it's very nice only needing one kind of 22 ammo.
 
Ok I have one and have shot around 5000 rounds through it. It eats everything I throw at it. I can also attest to the accuracy. I can hit a clay pigeon at 50 yards from a bench rest (not every time). Here are a couple of tweaks I did.

1. Painted the front sight white.
2. Used Loc-Tite on the rear sight screw (rear sight kept coming lose after about 200 rounds)
3. clean after 1000 rounds or so.

I bought mine for $150.. For $150 I feel like I robbed somebody..
 
ALFREDS said:
Mine does not work. It jams all the time. I have fired several hundred rounds through it with three brands of ammo. It rarely fires a full mag without jamming.

Maybe I got a bad one.
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I'd keep trying. 3 flavours isn't all that much in the semi auto 22 game. For bulk stuff, mine does great with Federal 525, Remington Golden Bullet HP, and Winchester 333. Blazer works great, too, but that's pretty spendy :D

None of the Remington truncated cone stuff seemed to work well. Some standard velocity ammo is too slow to cycle the slide (though I did polish mine up so it will run Rem Subsonic and Target).
 
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