Yes, they do, and I have a short ton of them stored on photobucket, but that fr%^&ing website won't let me post them! I've used PB for a couple of years now, but lately I can't get anything I've stored there onto a forum. I'm going to have to find a more reliable photo hosting site.
Norinco NS522 build: NEW MAG RELEASE
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I don't think I'd ever end up trusting the safety pin to hold its tension. I really hope I'm wrong tho!
Really want to add the post travel screw too, such a nice and simple thing to do.
It's weird that you have problems with photobucket, might be a problem with your anti virus cause I have no problem at all, the pictures I just posted are hosted there.
Really want to add the post travel screw too, such a nice and simple thing to do.
It's weird that you have problems with photobucket, might be a problem with your anti virus cause I have no problem at all, the pictures I just posted are hosted there.
The safety pin trigger spring mod is not my idea, btw. Here in the U.S., the NS522 arrived around 1996-97, and early on someone noticed the similarities between the original 522 spring and a safety pin. Quite a few people on RimFire Central have been using them for years (you'll have to search the archives of RFC to find much about the NS522). The beauty of the idea is this--$3.00 buys you about 50 safety pins, so you can afford to experiment with shape and tension and you'll have plenty of spares once you find something you're happy with. As to PhotoBucket, I have no clue. I've used PB to post many pictures on several different forums, but lately it will just not work for me.
Here's a little report after half painting done.
I started with some coats of BIN SHELLAC BASE PRIMER-SEALER. There might be better stuff but from my research, this was the best product to seal the stock and have a good base coat.
I don't know if the product was old and sat on the shelves (bought the day before use..) but it was the most horrible experience of spray painting I've ever had. Tho rattle cans don't make especially good jobs, I usually get away with more than decent jobs with it, have painted tons of projects and car trims and never had such a hard time. The B-I-N primer nozzle doesn't seem appropriate and the stuff itself is pretty thick but the way it spray makes it impossible to do even, proper light coats. The thing was spitting primer heavily and I ended up with it running all over the stock... Had to wait, sand down and re apply very very light coats. The result wasn't great looking but the wood is now sealed and the good part is, even if it wasn't good looking, the textured finish is going to hide the imperfections.
Sorry, didn't take pictures of the stock with only primer. It was simply all white and like I said, looked like a pretty bad paint job.
Then I went on and taped all the spots I didn't want texture on, mostly where the moving parts (mag well, bolt handle channel, safety...). And gave a few light coats of Rust-o-leum Accents Stone textured finish paint. This stuff also spit the paint out but on this one, this is pretty much what you want to get good texture. The stuff looks a lot like rocker guard/bed liner spray but without the smell and dries hard instead of keeping a rubberish feel. I realized you can't really give the entire finish with it as it leaves a lot of space between spits (you will see in the pictures). You could do all of it with it but it would take for ever as it really dries slow and would need so many coats, and the finish would be super thick and way too much texture. This was not a problem in my case as I already planned to put a flat black finish coat on the entire thing to get it nice and even and, of course, cover the parts that were taped off.
Here's what it looks like, still hanging to dry. The Accents Stone paint really takes a long time to dry.
I started with some coats of BIN SHELLAC BASE PRIMER-SEALER. There might be better stuff but from my research, this was the best product to seal the stock and have a good base coat.
I don't know if the product was old and sat on the shelves (bought the day before use..) but it was the most horrible experience of spray painting I've ever had. Tho rattle cans don't make especially good jobs, I usually get away with more than decent jobs with it, have painted tons of projects and car trims and never had such a hard time. The B-I-N primer nozzle doesn't seem appropriate and the stuff itself is pretty thick but the way it spray makes it impossible to do even, proper light coats. The thing was spitting primer heavily and I ended up with it running all over the stock... Had to wait, sand down and re apply very very light coats. The result wasn't great looking but the wood is now sealed and the good part is, even if it wasn't good looking, the textured finish is going to hide the imperfections.
Sorry, didn't take pictures of the stock with only primer. It was simply all white and like I said, looked like a pretty bad paint job.
Then I went on and taped all the spots I didn't want texture on, mostly where the moving parts (mag well, bolt handle channel, safety...). And gave a few light coats of Rust-o-leum Accents Stone textured finish paint. This stuff also spit the paint out but on this one, this is pretty much what you want to get good texture. The stuff looks a lot like rocker guard/bed liner spray but without the smell and dries hard instead of keeping a rubberish feel. I realized you can't really give the entire finish with it as it leaves a lot of space between spits (you will see in the pictures). You could do all of it with it but it would take for ever as it really dries slow and would need so many coats, and the finish would be super thick and way too much texture. This was not a problem in my case as I already planned to put a flat black finish coat on the entire thing to get it nice and even and, of course, cover the parts that were taped off.
Here's what it looks like, still hanging to dry. The Accents Stone paint really takes a long time to dry.
Norinco NS522 build: NEW TRIGGER UPDATE!!!
Hey -ragh-, I love that stock mod, it's looking great!! I see some of the vital places you taped to protect from the texture. Just curious of you have texture on the cheek weld? If so, how rough will it be on the face (thinking if my baby soft skin! Lol)
Hey -ragh-, I love that stock mod, it's looking great!! I see some of the vital places you taped to protect from the texture. Just curious of you have texture on the cheek weld? If so, how rough will it be on the face (thinking if my baby soft skin! Lol)
at the dollar store I found a WHOLE row of ladies hair clips! and I think people were looking at me a little weird because I was a little too excited about them! ...20 trigger springs for a dollar!
heres the 1 I ripped apart that has its held up a few months now with a very nice light pull that hasn't seemed to change..
I thought about taping it also but I didn't want the cheek spot to be completely defined, I sprayed carefully and left this spot almost untouched so it make some kind of gradation. If it happens to have rough spots I'll lightly sand it down before final coat.
The textured paint really takes a long time to dry, after almost 10 hours the paint was dry but still not solid. I could press the texture down by pushing it with my finger. I added another coat to the grip and forearm for the best feeling/grip possible. It will now sit for a day or two so it really dry good.
Sk8, picture is too small, can't really see those springs. Even after your and minis comment and looking at a few post on rimfirecentral, I'm still kinda worried about using a non-firearm spring, but I guess I might just be over cautious.
elimsprint
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Kelowna, BC
Don't worry about it, a spring is a spring is a spring. Find one that works and enjoy. I have piano wire, bobby pin and safety pin return springs in my 10/22's and a bic flint spring in my Savage accutrigger and they all work fine.
Mine is bone stock and is consistently out shooting my two CZs and Savage at 75 yards with a much wider range of ammo. It actually prefers cci sv and sk std plus. I can't wait to try the safety pin spring mod. Anybody who is serious about rimfire really owes it to themselves to get one of these as you just can't beat the value and performance. I like mine so much I had to buy a second one.
TacticalCanuck
Regular
- Location
- SW Ontario
I wish I had pulled the trigger when canammo had the rifle and 5k federal package. May be a while before they offer it again.
As these were produced a good couple of years back, I thought the quantities might be limited, I jumped on it.
You aren't saving all that much with the combo, the rifle alone for 250 is already really good considering the potential of it. The total saving was about 50$ for both, if you go out and buy a case of ammo with a decent discount you might get pretty close to it anyways.
Point is, if you're thinking about it, get one before they're gone!
I could be wrong, but I suspect that the rifles CanAmmo was selling were part of Keng's orginal order of 2500 or so barrelled actions back in 1996. The story as I've pieced it together from old threads on RFC was that some 2000 of these barrelled actions were stocked by Keng's in American walnut stocks supplied by Bishop. These rifles were then sold over the years, the last of them just a year or two ago. The other 500 or so barrelled actions somehow arrived in the US without their bolts, and the trade ban on Chinese-made weapons came down in the interim, leaving Keng's with a few hundred barrelled actions without bolts. Keng's was then engaging in attempts to have a US sub contractor build the bolts to spec, but apparently this took some time. A year or two ago, a distributor in New Zealand or Australia was trying to buy these left-over 522s, but apparently he decided it wasn't cost effective to do so. Shortly thereafter, the CanAmmo rifles came up for sale. These rifles come installed in the NS em-332 stock, giving credence to the idea that they may have arrived as barrelled actions back in '96 as part of the original Keng's order. Granted, this is pure speculation on my part, but it seems to be possible given what I've read on the Interwebz.
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This is pretty much what I've heard too. I didn't have numbers but I read that a good part were stocked in boxes somewhere in a US warehouse for years due to the Chinese ban bill. The few ones I've seen from the US seem to have really decent wood. The ones we get in Canada have pretty run of the mill ones to say the least...
Glad they made it up here, and I certainly don't regret picking this one over a MK II. It seems really hard to beat for the money.
Glad they made it up here, and I certainly don't regret picking this one over a MK II. It seems really hard to beat for the money.
The Bishop stocks installed on the Keng's NS522s here in the US seem to range from the rather ordinary to very good, while the CanAmmo guns recieved the same sort of Norinco EM-332 stock commonly seen on guns in New Zealand and Australia--that is, without the characteristic twin cut-outs for the magazine holders in the butt, as was seen on those 332s that were imported to the US. I suppose that it is possible that CanAm bought the 522s as barrelled actions from some entity in the US, then stocked the guns themselves with the 332 stocks. The 332s I have seen online from down under also have the "spoon" shaped bolt handle, and the cut out for that can be seen on the stocks of the CanAm guns. Again, just speculation on my part. They certainly are fine guns no matter what their back story.
TacticalCanuck
Regular
- Location
- SW Ontario
Serious case of GAS right now....resistance is futile...I know!
According to my wife, you guys are a bad influence.
For $250. . .couldn't be happier.
