All-New: Type 81M

[MustardoTigre]

I myself am in Canada Post Purgatory…
Shipping info on the 25th
Picked up on the 26th by CP
Sat in Calgary for a day
Then made it to Edmonton on 27th
In transit on the 28th
That might not sound bad but I only live 90 minutes from Calgary LoL
It’s like Canada Post was not ready for the influx of parcels form TI LoL
So close and so far away, I could have watched the truck drive by on highway 2
Now it says delivery expected on the 3rd of April!!!
If it comes on the 3rd of April that will make it 9 day shipping to a place 90 minutes from Calgary!
Sorry for the rant but do better Canada post LoL

Absolutely ridiculous.

[TTTimothy]

Wow that wood is very orange. What do you think of the optic?

It's clearer than my Holosun 507k, feels solid. Haven't hit the range yet so can't really tell.

And yes, the stock wood is very orange...main reason I wanna get rid of it

[fritzhanzel]

Absolutely ridiculous.

Somebody reported that TI had some kind of fallout with CP. I was one of the first to order and had mine less than a week after order.

But after that it went downhill. No word from TI about that fiasco.

[kermit]

Thanks to this gentleman for running his folder thru it paces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYbWSLbn5EI

[East13]

Order number: 281xx
Ordered: Afternoon on March 13th
Processing: March 22nd

Any idea how much longer?

[JasonGTA]

289XX got the order processing email last night at 2:30am. Ordered on March 18

[stoop14]

How nice of them to keep their customers informed of delays.

[JayCorbett]

2nd day with the rifle. Maybe 100 rounds through it.

Gawd this thing is shmexy.

Two things to criticize:

1. My eyes can barely pickup the irons on a dim lit range. I may have to mount an optic and just live with it not folding.
2. The wood, albeit flawless, I’d like to have a bit darker.

Anyone know of an easy way to get the wood darker? I’m mechanically inclined but not any sort of wood guy. Is there anything I can spray the wood with to get a darker finish?

A couple of observations over the days:

1. The under folder is somehow more anesthetically appealing then the two side folders I’ve owned.
2. The under folder shoulder brace will snag my clothing on occasion but I’ve got no issues making a cheek/chin weld, nor have I suffered any pain or bruising from it. It’s totally fine for me.
3. The phosphate finish and black bolt is very appealing.
4. The build quality on this rifle is great. It’s on par with my LMG.

I still don’t know what to do about the sights. I run a dot, or magnification, on everything else but shotguns. It looks so good without a dot tho, so maybe this will become my dedicated LARP’ing rifle.

This is the seventh T81 I’ve owned, including one banana shaped abomination (that I still own), and the damned things won’t choke on any load - How do the Chinese build such fantastically functional, sometimes fugly rifles?

Pretty sure the AK mastermount won't fit on the underfolder because of where the internal pins are on the receiver unfortunately. Being able to open the stock and pull the dot and rail out of your pack and locking it on to the master mount would be so nice

[JayCorbett]

Someone needs to design an underfolder to fixed stock adapter and a dust cover rail similar to the texas weapon systems dog leg and they'd probably be rolling in the dough. I'm assuming the mlok handguard releasing in april from TI will be the best option for mounting optics to the underfolder?

[JayCorbett]

So the external of the barrel on my gun looks like a layer is "peeling" off. I'm guessing the barrel bluing wasn't done properly? Not sure if I should even bother TI with something so miniscule. Might just bring it to a local smith to look at and see what's up. Just something to look out for guys. Hope you get yours soon.