- Location
- North-Central Quebec
Originally Posted by Sasquatch807
What I want to see from Norinco next ?
A source of replacement parts for their ill-fitted, sloppy, sub-standard clone jobs.
I don't buy the stuff, however I do have to fix it when it come into my shop and then have to tell the customer that most replacement parts can't be found in Canada. I'm all for inexpensive entry-level guns but when the importer doesn't have the decency to carry parts for his product, that sucks big time. The local forestry school bought a bunch of different Norc rimfires for teaching purposes (bolts, levers, pumps, semi-autos). Parts like extractors, springs, sights and others regularly come flying off the guns during normal use and factory replacements can't be found so a few of them just became parts guns. Sure, I could machine replacement parts, but that defeats the purpose of buying an inexpensive rifle. I have to admit their M-14 clone is OK but why buy a roughly-made Norc .22 bolt rifle for $179 when for $30 more I can get a smooth working Savage Mk.II made right here. It just doesn't make any economic sense, plus, working the bolts on their rimfires feels like you threw in a handful of sand in the action, same for the pumps and levers.
Just my two cents, I'm just tired of this cheap throw-away consumerism fueled by the flooding of our markets with inexpensive substandard products. Is it so wrong to want the products I buy to last a little while and to be able to get parts for them when they break. My daughter hunts today with the Cooey mod 75 my grandfather bought 70 years ago. He bought it in a hardware store for about $10 and after 7 decades of regular use it has only required the replacement of an extractor, which by the way is still available today. Can I expect that from a Norinco product ?
What I want to see from Norinco next ?
A source of replacement parts for their ill-fitted, sloppy, sub-standard clone jobs.
I don't buy the stuff, however I do have to fix it when it come into my shop and then have to tell the customer that most replacement parts can't be found in Canada. I'm all for inexpensive entry-level guns but when the importer doesn't have the decency to carry parts for his product, that sucks big time. The local forestry school bought a bunch of different Norc rimfires for teaching purposes (bolts, levers, pumps, semi-autos). Parts like extractors, springs, sights and others regularly come flying off the guns during normal use and factory replacements can't be found so a few of them just became parts guns. Sure, I could machine replacement parts, but that defeats the purpose of buying an inexpensive rifle. I have to admit their M-14 clone is OK but why buy a roughly-made Norc .22 bolt rifle for $179 when for $30 more I can get a smooth working Savage Mk.II made right here. It just doesn't make any economic sense, plus, working the bolts on their rimfires feels like you threw in a handful of sand in the action, same for the pumps and levers.
Just my two cents, I'm just tired of this cheap throw-away consumerism fueled by the flooding of our markets with inexpensive substandard products. Is it so wrong to want the products I buy to last a little while and to be able to get parts for them when they break. My daughter hunts today with the Cooey mod 75 my grandfather bought 70 years ago. He bought it in a hardware store for about $10 and after 7 decades of regular use it has only required the replacement of an extractor, which by the way is still available today. Can I expect that from a Norinco product ?
