Norinco M334 308Win, Anyone have one?

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Hi, just acquired a norinco m334 in 308 win, Anyone have one of these. Info on the net is very sparse. Its based on a mauser type action. Ill post pics tomorrow if anyone is interested.


Thanks.
 
Here are the photos, Stock is wood painted OD green, found an old catalogue online which lists the specs, just wondering if anyone has one, good/ bad experiences.
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I suspect its quite rare, probably not a great seller by norinco. But if anyone knows anything about this rifle please post up.
 
As it says on the reciver stamping made by Xinan, exported by Norinco.

First time I have heard or seen one of these.

I wonder what scope bases would fit?
 
Seems to be a crude copy of the FN Surpeme / Santa-Barbara / Zastava.
And some people say that Zastava rifles are crude :)
 
Norinco - M334
890,00€
Manufacturer: Norinco
Warranty (in months): 12

Norincova carbine in caliber .308 Winchester with a wooden butt of the highest quality and eye for detail.
Rifled Barrel Yes
Category C 1
Caliber .308 Winchester
Action Type Bolt Action
Magazine Capacity 4
Barrel Length 620 mm
Overall Length 1140 mm
Weight 4000 g
 
I have examined one in person and have considered buying one several times just to have the weird Mauser 98 variation in my collection but never got around to it. It is close to a FN M98 but the front receiver ring is quite a bit longer and I'm not sure on the barrel thread size or length.

While researching these I found one Norinco distributor that told me most that made it into the country had excessive headspace and were stripped down for parts. There have been a few places selling them as recently as a year or so ago but they are far and few between and obviously not a quality copy of the good old M98. Seem to be pretty over priced for what they are when they do show up. One dealer that recently was selling these told me he had no complaints from customers or returns so they must work and shoot well enough.
 
If you don't mind me asking when you have seen these, what was the asking price range, I paid under 300, which I thought was pretty good, Bore on this rifle is exc, but the stock is painted. The action is not what I would call smooth, but neither is the JW25 that I have in 22lr either. ill shoot her and let you know how it shoots.

jbmauser said:
I have examined one in person and have considered buying one several times just to have the weird Mauser 98 variation in my collection but never got around to it. It is close to a FN M98 but the front receiver ring is quite a bit longer and I'm not sure on the barrel thread size or length.

While researching these I found one Norinco distributor that told me most that made it into the country had excessive headspace and were stripped down for parts. There have been a few places selling them as recently as a year or so ago but they are far and few between and obviously not a quality copy of the good old M98. Seem to be pretty over priced for what they are when they do show up. One dealer that recently was selling these told me he had no complaints from customers or returns so they must work and shoot well enough.
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Hi, Chinese here. The full English name of Xinan is Southwest Ordnance Industry Corporation, before 1999 it belongs to Norinco, aka China North Industries Corporation. I guess you don't know much about stated-owned company but just like other stated-owned company it has too much staff than you need but you just can't fire them, so the government let them enter into the free market, and told them after you finish those military orders you can do whatever you want with whatever you have, but no more financial aids, good luck. So today Southwest Ordnance Industry Corporation is one of the biggest domestic automobile manufacturer in China, it cooperate with foreign automobile company (ford, Suzuki, Citroen) to manufacture cars and other auto parts. Also it has a own-brand maybe you heard of, its called BYD, some sort of electrombile. From the news I have Warren Buffett used throw some bucks on its stock, don't know if he is right but whatever Buffett buy it just grows like crazy.

I thought they don't manufacture fire arms anymore for a long time since none of those PLA's new toys are made by them, but obviously I was wrong.

Hope you can understand what I wrote. Have a nice day!

Raz
 
AJones said:
If you don't mind me asking when you have seen these, what was the asking price range, I paid under 300, which I thought was pretty good, Bore on this rifle is exc, but the stock is painted. The action is not what I would call smooth, but neither is the JW25 that I have in 22lr either. ill shoot her and let you know how it shoots.
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For under 300, I would have bought it as well just to have the variation in my collection but the ones at dealers were 500ish and I wasn't willing to pay that much for a pretty crudely built gun. (no offense).

As I said before though, they seem to work well enough so I wouldn't worry about the rough action or poor machine work. As long as it functions and shoots accurately enough for the hunting you do, I'd be satisfied with it.

Looking forward to a range report!
 
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Hi, Chinese here. The full English name of Xinan is Southwest Ordnance Industry Corporation, before 1999 it belongs to Norinco, aka China North Industries Corporation. I guess you don't know much about stated-owned company but just like other stated-owned company it has too much staff than you need but you just can't fire them, so the government let them enter into the free market, and told them after you finish those military orders you can do whatever you want with whatever you have, but no more financial aids, good luck. So today Southwest Ordnance Industry Corporation is one of the biggest domestic automobile manufacturer in China, it cooperate with foreign automobile company (ford, Suzuki, Citroen) to manufacture cars and other auto parts. Also it has a own-brand maybe you heard of, its called BYD, some sort of electrombile. From the news I have Warren Buffett used throw some bucks on its stock, don't know if he is right but whatever Buffett buy it just grows like crazy.

I thought they don't manufacture fire arms anymore for a long time since none of those PLA's new toys are made by them, but obviously I was wrong.

Hope you can understand what I wrote. Have a nice day!

Raz
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Thanks for clarifying things, as Norinco and Poly Industries are those kind of business we don't know much about here. By any chance, do you which Arsenal marking they used ?
 
I wish you luck with it, $300.xx seems fair, $500 is completely bat-you-know-what crazy!

Like with Zastava vs. CZ, I opted to not gamble my money on a potential POS and went CZ...
 
Baribal said:
Thanks for clarifying things, as Norinco and Poly Industries are those kind of business we don't know much about here. By any chance, do you which Arsenal marking they used ?
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Oh by the way, at some decades ago Poly is just a subsidiary company of Norinco for export Norc's products, but nowadays Poly is more like an normal company focus on domestic real estate business (which is much more profitable than fire arms), and Norinco do the export job themselves again.
 
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