Norinco JW-15A Compact Hiker New Arrival

TTB4570 said:
One thing I'm wondering is should the bolt need big mechanical leverage to bring to the cocked position even when it is cleaned out? I cleaned mine out and i cannot get it to #### with one hand on the bolt body and one on the bolt/handle like any of the other guns i own on this pattern (brno no2, 452, etc). I'd hate to force and snap the firing pin or something.

Anyone got experience with this one?
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Maybe yes. I had one that was very tight opening and closing. L lot of patient work with diamond files and polishing, and it ran beautiful. Very accurate rifle too.
 
I just ordered one of these from Tenda, I could not turn down the deal: $219.00 for the rifle and 1000 rounds of Aguilla Lead round nose. Not the greatest ammo, but it will plink. This will be the third JW15 for me, but the first short one.
 
Meroh said:
I just ordered one of these from Tenda, I could not turn down the deal: $219.00 for the rifle and 1000 rounds of Aguilla Lead round nose. Not the greatest ammo, but it will plink. This will be the third JW15 for me, but the first short one.
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I grabbed one too. We shall see if it at least functions! I always add a few "on sale" extras to get the free shipping.
 
I bought 2 of these and both had serious issues. On one of them the sights were installed extremely crooked to the bore but otherwise it functioned fine. On the other one the bolt handle cut out in the stock was not cut properly so I could not rotate the bolt fully into battery and the safety would not engage because of that.

Tenda was totally willing to take them back but I just decided to put a red dot on the one with the crooked sights and fix the stock on the other one myself. I used a sanding drum on my dremel and 5 minutes later I could fully close the bolt and it functioned fine after that.

Anyway no fault of Tenda and they were good with dealing with this but it seems the quality control of these can be quite poor
 
I just bought a long barrel version and it currently isn't a viable firearm. I cleaned the oil off and soaked the bolt in varsol, but it wouldn't matter anyways, it won't feed a round from the magazine if it's life depended on it. I knew I was buying a piece of #### that I needed to fix and I'm capable of it. I just hope no new gun people buy these thinking it's a good deal. It only is if you have tools and it's not your first rodeo.
 
unstableryan said:
I just bought a long barrel version and it currently isn't a viable firearm. I cleaned the oil off and soaked the bolt in varsol, but it wouldn't matter anyways, it won't feed a round from the magazine if it's life depended on it. I knew I was buying a piece of #### that I needed to fix and I'm capable of it. I just hope no new gun people buy these thinking it's a good deal. It only is if you have tools and it's not your first rodeo.
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Cheap enough that someone can learn a bit of gunsmithing with limited monitary risk.
 
Mine works well with Aquila 60 gr subsonic, that's basically all I shoot out of it.
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