A couple years ago a friend bought the NS-322, a sporter version of this heavy barreled rifle. He cleaned the stock with fine steel wool and applied 5 coats of Tung Oil. The rifle looks great and shoot very well. For $350 he got a well-made and good looking rifle.
When CanAm offered the NS-522, a heavy barreled version, for only $250 I could not resist, even though I already own a lot of 22 rifles, including Winchester, Cooey, Remington, Anschutz and Walther.
The trigger breaks at about 4 pounds. I have not yet decided if it has creep, or is a two stage trigger. Probably the latter.
It comes with a pair of well-made 5 shot mags. I think CIL used to market an Anschutz 22 repeater. Maybe those mags fit. But 2 is one more than I usually use. But gopher hunters might want some extras. This rifle has some heft to it. On a bipod I suspect it would make a solid gopher rifle for longer range shooting.
I am pleased with what I see. It has a heavy, but not very long barrel. It is hammer forged, so should last forever. Regular 22s are soft steel and target rifles need new barrels every 50,000 rounds.
I happen to have a broken Anschutz target rifle on my desk and notice that the screw spacings are the same. If I cut an opening for the magazine, I could put the Norinco in an Anschutz stock.
The stock is stained very dark. I intend to give it a buff with some steel wool, then some stain, then a Tung oil finish.
The bolt arrived un-cocked. It had to be cocked in order to install. I just pushed the cocking piece back with a flat screw driver and then turned the bolt handle. Before doing that I stood it on end and squirted some brake cleaner into the bolt. The pad it was sitting on tuned brown as the oil washed out of it. A squirt of G96 to finish, and the bolt is good to go.
I did the same thing to the trigger box.
A single pass of a patch pushed out a god of grease/oil from the barrel.
The inletting of the stock is nice and tight. I will wrap a socket with a piece of sand paper and open up the barrel channel a bit, to make sure the barrel is floating. The action will get a simple bedding job.
The trigger guard is a solid steel piece. Very nice, except the inletting in the stock is much too deep. The guard sits on pillars of two washers around the two action screws. I will tack these washers in place with some epoxy, and then use left-over bedding material to fill in the big cavity under the trigger guard.
I used a set of Weaver rings with ¾” bases to mount a 4-12 scope and look forward to testing the rifle at 100 yards on a calm day with a variety of different types of ammo. Maybe I will shoot it alongside my Walther target rifle, for a comparison.
When CanAm offered the NS-522, a heavy barreled version, for only $250 I could not resist, even though I already own a lot of 22 rifles, including Winchester, Cooey, Remington, Anschutz and Walther.
The trigger breaks at about 4 pounds. I have not yet decided if it has creep, or is a two stage trigger. Probably the latter.
It comes with a pair of well-made 5 shot mags. I think CIL used to market an Anschutz 22 repeater. Maybe those mags fit. But 2 is one more than I usually use. But gopher hunters might want some extras. This rifle has some heft to it. On a bipod I suspect it would make a solid gopher rifle for longer range shooting.
I am pleased with what I see. It has a heavy, but not very long barrel. It is hammer forged, so should last forever. Regular 22s are soft steel and target rifles need new barrels every 50,000 rounds.
I happen to have a broken Anschutz target rifle on my desk and notice that the screw spacings are the same. If I cut an opening for the magazine, I could put the Norinco in an Anschutz stock.
The stock is stained very dark. I intend to give it a buff with some steel wool, then some stain, then a Tung oil finish.
The bolt arrived un-cocked. It had to be cocked in order to install. I just pushed the cocking piece back with a flat screw driver and then turned the bolt handle. Before doing that I stood it on end and squirted some brake cleaner into the bolt. The pad it was sitting on tuned brown as the oil washed out of it. A squirt of G96 to finish, and the bolt is good to go.
I did the same thing to the trigger box.
A single pass of a patch pushed out a god of grease/oil from the barrel.
The inletting of the stock is nice and tight. I will wrap a socket with a piece of sand paper and open up the barrel channel a bit, to make sure the barrel is floating. The action will get a simple bedding job.
The trigger guard is a solid steel piece. Very nice, except the inletting in the stock is much too deep. The guard sits on pillars of two washers around the two action screws. I will tack these washers in place with some epoxy, and then use left-over bedding material to fill in the big cavity under the trigger guard.
I used a set of Weaver rings with ¾” bases to mount a 4-12 scope and look forward to testing the rifle at 100 yards on a calm day with a variety of different types of ammo. Maybe I will shoot it alongside my Walther target rifle, for a comparison.
