Norinco JW-15A Compact Hiker New Arrival

Received my order that I made a little over a week ago, all the rifles I got function as they should. I ordered multiples and I was really curious to see the out of storage/grease packed functionality and I can attest to some of them! The bolt is stiff but that's due to the sticky residue. Only 1 had the canted sight, which that will be an easy fix with a pair of soft jaw pliers. Lastly, a few of them had minor blems/marks on the stock, big whoop.

After cleaned up, I'd put one of these next to any modern bolt/semi auto of the same or slightly higher price point. The bluing overall is deeper/nicer than any lower/mid Savage or Ruger. The new Ruger 10/22s what I've seen are almost like a matte/satin vs actual bluing. I see they are sold out, but the full size versions are still available!


Big thanks to Tenda for the order once again, they are in the top 3 of shops in Canada IMO. I'm really lucky I don't live near them XD.


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Update....

Yesterday, I took a deeper dive into the trigger. I needed to further reduce trigger force, and take up.

First thing I found was that the trigger was rubbing on one side of the little sub-plate that sits under the trigger guard. I opened that up a few thousands with a small, straight cut, needle file. Suddenly, the "gritty" creep was gone!

I also discovered that the very stiff trigger return spring is the same OD as a YoDave 455 trigger spring. I put in a medium light one I had kicking around; It helped a bit, but the difference on force required was less than antcipated.

My nemisis, until yesterday, was the trigger adjustment screw. I was unable to get it freed-up even with heating it with a BBQ lighter, and later, the gas kitchen stove. Chinese lock-tite, may be superior to our western stuff. LOL. I heated the hell out of it again, and grabbed the end of the screw with a small vise-grip and worked it back and forth and lots of oil. I had to do that all the way out the bottom until it freed up enough to turn it with a jewler's screw driver. Once out, it screwed back in from the bottom quite easily. I set it up so that there is now no preceptable creep, but also when cocked, I can forcefully bump the stock on the floor without having the firing pin let go.

It also takes a bit more force to lift the bolt than is should; I have not had a chance to fix it yet, but I did take the bolt apart, and found the firing pin to be disgracefully rough. There is a lot of friction when moving the internals back and forth by hand with no spring. I estimate 1-2 hours. It is so rough, I almost regret looking at it.

Bedding and free-floating has been moved to the bottom of the priority list for the time being.

BTW, the rear dove-tail is not symetrical, and I have tried two different dovetail adaptors hoping to use a qd scope so I can easily go from scope to irons, neither worked for me. Dovetail is either too wide or two narrow.

Any ideas on this would be welcome.
 
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