So I just picked mine up from Moreguns supply here in Winnipeg.
I'm going to post a few pics with some of my initial opinions to try and help people out with their decision to get one or not as they are selling like hotcakes.
Firstly heres the little puppy
A little bit of Engrish
It's really cute!
And handy.
And covered in cosmoline!!!!
I took it apart and cleaned the cosmoline out as best I could
After a wash in Isopropyl, orange cleaner and some Ed's red, it was finally ready to put against my cheek.
And this is what I witnessed next.
Pretty nice simple sights. The front blade is plenty thin enough to use, but could let a little more light in on both sides. I'll see how they do tomorrow.
All in all I think this baby is begging for a nice 3/8" rail mounted peep sight.(anyone know where I can find a williams 5d-gr?)
But I sure like the hooded front blade, the hoods got a hole on top to let in light. that sits on a nice rounded crown in the bare, hardly target grade, but then again this is not a bench gun. I think I'll blue the muzzle so it looks a little less sketchy.
The finish on the gun is a nice deep blue, and the machining is quite smooth, with very few tracks.
The safety is a little stiff, and being used to savages I had to look up how to use it in the manual. All in all I think it's way classier being on the bolt, but not quite as quick shooting left-hand. (Which is how I shoot!)
The trigger breaks nice clean and light!!!
That's right everybody. Nice trigger.
The Magazine is a nice little flush mounted 5 shot, unlike the 10 shot they said it would come with!!
Luckily I much prefer it to 10 shot ones, but I might go grab a 10shot CZ mag. at Cabela's for plinking to compliment the short one for hunting/hiking.(p.s CZ 10shots are 40$ at cabela's BLAH)
The follower is steel, which is pretty cool in these days of plastic.
It is a little shorter than my M6 (when it's unfolded)30.5"vs32" and a little lighter too(M6 .22lr weighs 4.5lbs) this one feels closer to 4 (no scale). Maybe a touch heavier than a papoose but I sold mine so who knows.
But in terms of survival use, the M6 is probably more versatile as it can use .410 slugs (survival big game) and my favorite (WW 5 pellet 000buck for when things go bump in the night). But the JW15 is definitely a contender. We will see how they stack up against each other tomorrow. It sure is a lot more comfortable to use than the weird Springfield M6.
The scope was really too big for the gun, in fact the bolt handle would hit the rear of the scope, and it took off a little blueing on the bolt, and marred the scope some. Also I could only mount the scope far enough forward till it hit the rear sight blade.
Not to mention the safety being really awkward for a left hander like me to manipulate with the scope on. Not to bad without the scope though.
. More comparisons to the M6. A gravel pit report. And what my girlfriend thinks. Coming soon!
I'm going to post a few pics with some of my initial opinions to try and help people out with their decision to get one or not as they are selling like hotcakes.
Firstly heres the little puppy
A little bit of Engrish
It's really cute!
And handy.
And covered in cosmoline!!!!
I took it apart and cleaned the cosmoline out as best I could
After a wash in Isopropyl, orange cleaner and some Ed's red, it was finally ready to put against my cheek.
And this is what I witnessed next.
Pretty nice simple sights. The front blade is plenty thin enough to use, but could let a little more light in on both sides. I'll see how they do tomorrow.
All in all I think this baby is begging for a nice 3/8" rail mounted peep sight.(anyone know where I can find a williams 5d-gr?)
But I sure like the hooded front blade, the hoods got a hole on top to let in light. that sits on a nice rounded crown in the bare, hardly target grade, but then again this is not a bench gun. I think I'll blue the muzzle so it looks a little less sketchy.
The finish on the gun is a nice deep blue, and the machining is quite smooth, with very few tracks.
The safety is a little stiff, and being used to savages I had to look up how to use it in the manual. All in all I think it's way classier being on the bolt, but not quite as quick shooting left-hand. (Which is how I shoot!)
The trigger breaks nice clean and light!!!
That's right everybody. Nice trigger.
The Magazine is a nice little flush mounted 5 shot, unlike the 10 shot they said it would come with!!
Luckily I much prefer it to 10 shot ones, but I might go grab a 10shot CZ mag. at Cabela's for plinking to compliment the short one for hunting/hiking.(p.s CZ 10shots are 40$ at cabela's BLAH)
The follower is steel, which is pretty cool in these days of plastic.
It is a little shorter than my M6 (when it's unfolded)30.5"vs32" and a little lighter too(M6 .22lr weighs 4.5lbs) this one feels closer to 4 (no scale). Maybe a touch heavier than a papoose but I sold mine so who knows.
But in terms of survival use, the M6 is probably more versatile as it can use .410 slugs (survival big game) and my favorite (WW 5 pellet 000buck for when things go bump in the night). But the JW15 is definitely a contender. We will see how they stack up against each other tomorrow. It sure is a lot more comfortable to use than the weird Springfield M6.
The scope was really too big for the gun, in fact the bolt handle would hit the rear of the scope, and it took off a little blueing on the bolt, and marred the scope some. Also I could only mount the scope far enough forward till it hit the rear sight blade.
Not to mention the safety being really awkward for a left hander like me to manipulate with the scope on. Not to bad without the scope though.
. More comparisons to the M6. A gravel pit report. And what my girlfriend thinks. Coming soon!
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Range report would have to be bad for me to take this one off the "want" list. Held one of these last week, hard NOT to want one for the money.
