Norinco NP29 thoughts?
- Thread starter Horse96
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If you can find one they tend to shoot pretty well. But be prepared to futz around with some of the little things. Like seriously sticky mags and a gritty mag release. The spring plunger in the side housing that tensions the thumb safety and slide lock being something seriously odd so it springs out almost 6 to 8mm's and blocks the slide lock from going back in unless I use a smallscrewdriver to push it in and slip the lock past.
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I like mine. Runs reliable, ad decently accurate.
What I found with the Norc 9mm mags was that they just felt cheap and the follower
and spring felt and sounded rough.
Maybe I just got bad ones and others may be better. About the only tuning that
could be done would be to take sandpaper if the feed lips are a little rough and
make them smooth.
I should add that the mags I had worked fine, just felt cheaply made.
Yes the mags can be "tuned". Lip angles can be tweaked and shaped to carry the rounds at the proper height and angle and the lips can be polished to let the rounds slip more smoothly.
The holes in the side walls to see the round count can be polished up from inside to remove the burrs they have so the follower and spring slip past them smoothly.
This is all standard stuff for any mag on any gun though. It's not just for Norc mags. I had to do all these same steps on my CZ mags to slick them up. On the other hand the two Wilson Combat mags I bought to use with a .45 were sweet right out of the pack in every way. But this sort of fine stuff is why we choose to pay the big bucks.
Keep in mind too that a Norc that needs tuning is only going to continue to be a good price if you can do the work yourself. If you have to pay a smith to do the work or correct your mistakes due to being a newbie to this stuff that cheap Norc will quickly rise in price to the cost of a Ruger or Remington 1911. So if you don't trust yourself or if you want the "Full Meal Deal" on a trigger job and all the other stuff just buy a gun at a price point that comes with that stuff already done. Options such as as the lower cost modesl from Kimber and STI come to mind.
The holes in the side walls to see the round count can be polished up from inside to remove the burrs they have so the follower and spring slip past them smoothly.
This is all standard stuff for any mag on any gun though. It's not just for Norc mags. I had to do all these same steps on my CZ mags to slick them up. On the other hand the two Wilson Combat mags I bought to use with a .45 were sweet right out of the pack in every way. But this sort of fine stuff is why we choose to pay the big bucks.
Keep in mind too that a Norc that needs tuning is only going to continue to be a good price if you can do the work yourself. If you have to pay a smith to do the work or correct your mistakes due to being a newbie to this stuff that cheap Norc will quickly rise in price to the cost of a Ruger or Remington 1911. So if you don't trust yourself or if you want the "Full Meal Deal" on a trigger job and all the other stuff just buy a gun at a price point that comes with that stuff already done. Options such as as the lower cost modesl from Kimber and STI come to mind.
