So I finally had a chance to take this bad boy to the range today.
I had 200 rounds of Winchester white box sitting in my house for about a month, and I haven't shot my new norinco that I spent so much time working on. A few nights ago I found out how to do the pencil test,
And what it can mean. When I tried it, the pencil barely made it out of the barrel. I knew something was wrong. A combo of the 19# mainspring, lighter hammer, xp fire pin spring, and lighter firing pin didn't give the firing pin enough momentum. I figured this would result in light primer strikes, so to play it safe I put the factory 23# mainspring back in. The pencil cleared the barrel almost 2 feet, so it's a dramatic improvement. The trigger does seem a bit heavier with the factory mainspring, but I'm sure that difference will go away after I break in the gun. Time to shoot...
The gun is probably the most accurate pistol I own. I think I managed pretty good groups at 10 yards. Those were my best 3 groups of the day. The gun was flawless, and both the wilson and factory mags functioned perfectly. The major difference between the two was the wilson was WAYYY easier to reload, the norinco were rough and were much harder to reload. The pistol had zero feeding issues (I also polished the feed ramp and barrel throat with flitz), and ejection was perfect aswell. The gun was really smooth after I did the work on it, but after the range session it really smoothed up everything. The main issue I had was with the trigger itself. The serations managed to chew up my finger fairly quickly, and made it painful to shoot. I taped up my finger and it helped a lot, but it made it harder to feel and read the trigger pull. I think I can fix this no problem, just smooth out the serations on the trigger. I put a new target up and put it to the very back of the range ( can't remember the distance), and managed under 3" groups. I seem to shoot down and to the left a bit, but practice will eliminate that.
Overall I'm very pleased with the gun. All the new parts worked well, and nothing is broken. The last magazine I wanted to have some fun, so I shot as fast as I could reasonably control the gun. The very last round stovepiped. I have to look into whether something isn't tuned right in the gun, or I limp wristed or somthing. When I was leaving I made the mistake of going to the retail part of the shop and ask some questions. I'm not going to get into it, but I didn't end up buying anything like I planned to.
I had 200 rounds of Winchester white box sitting in my house for about a month, and I haven't shot my new norinco that I spent so much time working on. A few nights ago I found out how to do the pencil test,
And what it can mean. When I tried it, the pencil barely made it out of the barrel. I knew something was wrong. A combo of the 19# mainspring, lighter hammer, xp fire pin spring, and lighter firing pin didn't give the firing pin enough momentum. I figured this would result in light primer strikes, so to play it safe I put the factory 23# mainspring back in. The pencil cleared the barrel almost 2 feet, so it's a dramatic improvement. The trigger does seem a bit heavier with the factory mainspring, but I'm sure that difference will go away after I break in the gun. Time to shoot...
The gun is probably the most accurate pistol I own. I think I managed pretty good groups at 10 yards. Those were my best 3 groups of the day. The gun was flawless, and both the wilson and factory mags functioned perfectly. The major difference between the two was the wilson was WAYYY easier to reload, the norinco were rough and were much harder to reload. The pistol had zero feeding issues (I also polished the feed ramp and barrel throat with flitz), and ejection was perfect aswell. The gun was really smooth after I did the work on it, but after the range session it really smoothed up everything. The main issue I had was with the trigger itself. The serations managed to chew up my finger fairly quickly, and made it painful to shoot. I taped up my finger and it helped a lot, but it made it harder to feel and read the trigger pull. I think I can fix this no problem, just smooth out the serations on the trigger. I put a new target up and put it to the very back of the range ( can't remember the distance), and managed under 3" groups. I seem to shoot down and to the left a bit, but practice will eliminate that.
Overall I'm very pleased with the gun. All the new parts worked well, and nothing is broken. The last magazine I wanted to have some fun, so I shot as fast as I could reasonably control the gun. The very last round stovepiped. I have to look into whether something isn't tuned right in the gun, or I limp wristed or somthing. When I was leaving I made the mistake of going to the retail part of the shop and ask some questions. I'm not going to get into it, but I didn't end up buying anything like I planned to.
