Any of you like Norinco Rimfire?

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Since everybody here has been talking about rimfire rifles from Ruger, Marlin, CZ...Few people are talking about Chinese Norinco rimfire. Just wondering, does anybody have experience on them? www.marstar.ca has a lot of Norinco .22LR rifles for a reasonable price. Is there a good one with quality and accuracy? I am thinking about getting one and try it out. ;)
 
FYI I called yesterday to order the m93 woodsman .22 handgun and was told they are out of stock for another 3 weeks :(
 
I have sold quite a number of different Norinco rimfires. They are: generally accurate, functional, and rough. Put a Brno .22 side by side with the Norinco copy, and the difference in detailing is dramatic. Useful tools, lacking esthetic value.
 
I had a JW15 that out shone a lot of other 22 rifles I owned.
Once the trigger was lightened up and the barrel Flitzed It would shoot groups that were competetive with a good target rifle.
As someone else said , the finish was not as good as a Brno or CZ but the barrel bore has a lot of effort put into it.
The stock is not all that great but is acceptable. You can install an after market stock for the CZ which works well.
Jim
 
Marstar is out of a lot of Norinco stuff, I just talked to them this morning and they said 3-4 weeks. Problems with China apparently.
 
I picked up a 22 mag BRNO knockoff-and it shoots pretty good,finish isn't BRNO-but neither was the price[$109 from SIR, years ago]
 
I just bought a jw15 from frontier (advertising above forum header) for my little brother for christmas. It's on sale for $139 if you go to clearance, then rimfire online. It's not bad, but not great. I haven't gone out in the snow to shoot it yet, but there are telling touches.

It's got a nice trigger, but it's a little gritty in the action. The wood is pretty well done, but the pores aren't filled, and the finish is a high gloss laquer that seems a little cheap and shiny.

It's chipped in the boltway (the wood stock).

The sights are a tiny bit misaligned. I think they install the sights on the chambered barrels first, then screw them into the actions, and mine needed a tiny bit more turning in. It's not a real issue, as they line up nicely with each other, and they meet the eye just fine when you use it, since it's got a round forearm, you naturally just tilt the rifle slightly.

The barrel is threaded and has a cap, which is neat if I want to get an aftermarket muzzlebreak, but I think is meant for the european market where sound suppressors are ubiquitous.

It's not perfect, but is it good enough for a rifle half the price or less of a new domestic product?

Yes, because my little brother doesn't shoot much at all, but enjoys it when he does. He doesn't shoot much past 30 yards, and doesn't shoot fast, or alot. He just likes poking holes in soda cans, and I'm pretty sure the norc will do that just fine at that range. I gave him the rifle and a box of 500 dynapoints, and five years from now, I expect him to still be shooting on the same box of dynapoints if he doesn't misplace them. He is going to like having the rifle in the rack on the wall, showing it off when someone comes over to visit, and maybe taking some nephew or some chick out to try a "real" gun once in a blue moon, and that's ok.

Not everyone is a dyed-in-the-wool gun crank like me. And that's ok too.

He has just about every computer gadget known to man and, and I type this stuff out on a new computer he built for me this christmas and he sets up all my other tech stuff, and it's really nice to have his expertise when something goes wrong. We may have different obsessions but it's nice we can and do enrich each others lives with our respective hobbies.

Bobby.
 
Norinco

Have had two Norinco 1911 .45 clones and an M14 in the past. To be honest they functioned ok and were surprisingly acurate for the money. On the other hand machining was very rough with numerous tool marks,burrs etc. You get what you pay for, nothing more,maybe less. Good "blasters" for the money.
Happily now Norinco-free!

Geoff in Victoria
 
i own ar15, m14 , and 870 clones and they work awesome...just a bit ugly. that would go for all norinco stuff. if you can get over the uglyness and rough finish you cant go wrong. then again a local store where i live has a savage bolt .22 for 169 and it seems a bit nicer quality. i guess depends what you like and how much it costs. i looked at norinco 22 but it is personal choice. best thing they sell is good value. some appearance stuff can be overlooked or corrected as long as it shoots well and norinco guns do that.
 
My wife and I have several 'rinco .22's.

I have an M93, the woodsman copy, it's been great, it's had about 5,000 rounds through it, and still works great, I had one mag go bad at about the 1000 mark and the rear sight is pretty loose now; but as long as I keep it clean and lubed it works great. It's got a pretty small grip, so it's perfect for kids. I usually take it to the range even when I'm not planning to shoot it, and if there are any kids hanging around I let them burn-off a few mags (with their parent's permission, of course).

My wife has an EM322, which is a pump with hidden hammer, not sure what it's a copy of. Anyway, it's been great, it was my wife's first gun, and my first online gun buy. The only ##### I have is the dovetail on the receiver is a really screwy size, like about 14mm.

And I've got a modified "Bell Sharpshooter", which is a heavy barreled copy of the BRNO. I liked it a lot, so I had Corlane Sports set the barrel back and give me a true match chamber, thread the muzzle (just because I like threaded muzzles) and powder-coat it. I'd like a better stock and a better trigger; but both are quite servicable. And considering that I'm only into the rifle for $550 ($150 for the initial purchase (nib), and $400 for the Corlane's work (The powder coating was a silly idea for a gun that doesn't get used in bad weather; but it was a great learning experience), and I've had about 15 years use out of it, I'm pretty happy.
 
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