“JW-25a” from Tenda (nearly all was wrong there!-now corrected) and its review
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Congratulations! You will not regret buying it. It's not a "Mini" at all unless that word refers to the rimfire caliber. Mine shoots about 2" high at 25y with iron sights with CCI Standard. I didn't want to do any irreversible modifications of the original iron sights so, I mounted a small red dot. Now it shoots like a laser.
I see that you also have a "real deal". Nice comparison. Is your real Mauser a "Russian capture"?
It’s a Russian capture, but a nice shooter!
Ok so the magazines on these really do suck. Does Norinco not even bother checking to see if the mags function in the rifle while designing it? I have 3 mags, not one will feed.
I’ll look into the other brand of mag mentioned above, and will have to reach out to Tenda.
The rear sight is set at the lowest it can go and it’s still ~3” high at 50m too.
I’ll look into the other brand of mag mentioned above, and will have to reach out to Tenda.
The rear sight is set at the lowest it can go and it’s still ~3” high at 50m too.
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I bought 3 mags for the CZ 452/455/457 (5 rounds). They are plastic with a metal follower. They work absolutely superbly in the JW25. The only problem is that they are quite expensive! I bought mine on sale at Doctor Deals. May be, you can find them on sale somewhere.
Perfect.
I showed Tenda a video of the mags failing and they agreed to take them back. I’ll grab some CZ ones.
Shooting high? I found that you can remove a small bit of metal from the ramp under the rear sight and you can lower it to your satisfaction. I removed a bit too much which didn’t present any problem and gave me room to try different ammo. I also found that there was windage”wiggle” in the rear sight and I tightened it up with vise grips on the ears of the rear sight. Windage adjustment can be done with the front sight after tightening up the rear. A little cold bluing took care of the aesthetics under the ramp. It sounds rough but you don’t want to see my cabinet work. Hope this helps.
I wouldn't be so harsh on Norinco on their manufacturing quality. The manufacturing quality of the rifle itself is very good. I'm not sure why Norinco is unable to make better magazines for these rifles. It's a bit weird to me. Easy way, they should copy a plastic 5rd CZ 452/455/457 magazine which would be a better solution than their metal one. With regard to a bayonet see my post #19. A replica of the K98k bayonet fits perfectly on the JW-25a. From a distance it looks like an original K98k.
