All-New: Type 81M
- Thread starter Tactical Imports
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The Chinese sks rifles, built for and sold on the American market, are regarded as quality rifles. I’ve not heard otherwise, except for your post.
The type 81 rifles available in Canada have to be commercial otherwise they would be prohibited.
That doesn't mean that the type 81’s brought into Canada aren’t made on the same Type 81 tooling, with type 81 materials, that the military variants are made on.
These most recent variants seem to feature a number of practical improvements that might be cost prohibitive for large scale military adoption.
As an early adopter of the Type 81, buying and selling them to get the latest models has resulted in my collection becoming of increasing quality. The LMG variants are by most accounts superb. I expect these recent versions to be of similar high quality.
My earliest type 81 is still in my possession as I consider it unsalable for its obvious barrel to receiver misalignment, it does however spit out 7.62 pills without so much as a single hickup.
commercial versions of SKS's to North America?
do you mean to Canada? Cause they are banned in States.
I don't see any commercial version of SKS.
There is no comercial sks in China. They produced huge a mount of SKS during 60-70s. Lots of them are still in storage.
Why they reproduce commerical sks for Canada? Just take some out from storage. Aren't that be easier?
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You wanna play with my magic beans daddy
For the two major batches of rifles (blonde and red SE), yes. That explains why the quality and finish varies so much, and the long gap between the two batches.
For the LMG, the line either stayed open for way longer or they have tons of LMG barrels, as both the SR and M are based on the LMG design, so they can actually afford to make dedicated commerical models out of them.
It's no different from what the Chinese did with the SKS and AK sporters. It's either built from geniune contract overruns, or made from the ground up as a commercial rifle if they saw demand.
And the TI rifles are neither. They are bespoke semiauto receivers so it's not the former, and they aren't made or marketed by Norinco so it's not the latter.
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- Frozen north
I still have my original blonde folder. I will never part with it!
It's got a slight cant to the right but runs like a champ....
And the best part of that rifle is the serial # is the year I was born it's like it was meant to be mine!
HAHA true.. sounds dangerous.. too bad, I guess I will have to settle for this model
Anybody ?
But underfolder, of course
Yup I'd be allover one of these!!!
apexanimal
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On a wishlist of things that could actually be possible I'd put a bullpup type 81 aka type 97 in 7.62x39 at the top of the list. A shorty t81 would be cool but man the r&d required to alter the entire gas system would not help the fact that as a restricted firearm it couldnt hope to sell anywhere near as well as the standard nr batches.
