Had a Norinco HP9 for a few years now. First when I went to buy it I have never heard of it before but I decided to give it a try. Turns out to be a great gun! It's is a bit heavy and only chambers up to 3" shells but it's very reliable and trustworthy. Easy clean as well. Just throwing my opinion out there incase anyone was interested.
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I have the 12.5" version with ghost ring sights and man is it ever a blast to shoot. Rock solid too. Pretty hard to beat for the money I would say. Just need to pick up an extra barrel for some slightly longer range fun 
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"Hunting Arms" guys are among the biggest Norinco bashers anywhere. Mostly because they're too set in their ways to try something new and different from what grampa shot.
Quality control for a lot of the American manufacturers went out the door when Obama got elected and the American companies just started cranking out gun-like-objects to keep up with the panic buying. Remington is one of the biggest offenders. They bought Marlin firearms, and chucked every last bit of quality they could find in those guns, and upped the price at the same time. Google search "Remlin" and you'll get a sense of just how much a bunch of skin-flint, price gauging, quality chucking, jackwads, the current owners of Remington are.
Older wingmasters and 870s - different story. New production ones.... I'd rather have a Norinco.
Quality control for a lot of the American manufacturers went out the door when Obama got elected and the American companies just started cranking out gun-like-objects to keep up with the panic buying. Remington is one of the biggest offenders. They bought Marlin firearms, and chucked every last bit of quality they could find in those guns, and upped the price at the same time. Google search "Remlin" and you'll get a sense of just how much a bunch of skin-flint, price gauging, quality chucking, jackwads, the current owners of Remington are.
Older wingmasters and 870s - different story. New production ones.... I'd rather have a Norinco.
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Sounds like he might be a Fudd too.
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I use my grizzly with a 28" barrel for upland and my 870 with shurshot stock/red dot for deer and turkey. IMO the stupid grizzly is better made.
My HP-9 works great.. The only flaws are cosmetic (silver solder looks ugly, but works fine.)
Only slight adjustment to mount Remington bbls. and got the 14" bbl as well when you want the fun factor... or sell it for $$
The Homeland Security shotgun was a humongous POS with a porous cast bolt that shattered early on.. LOL Gave everything else a bad name
Only slight adjustment to mount Remington bbls. and got the 14" bbl as well when you want the fun factor... or sell it for $$
The Homeland Security shotgun was a humongous POS with a porous cast bolt that shattered early on.. LOL Gave everything else a bad name
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I have a Norinco HP9 that I picked up as a "test gun" when I was playing around with loading oddball shotgun rounds, I have ABUSED that thing and it is still kicking.
Last year, I cleaned my Grizzly in the spring, and just for kicks, intentionally didn't clean it again until I put it up for the winter.
Probably ran somewhere close to 1K rounds through it over the year, mix of target, bird, buck, and slugs.
Not one failure all year. No failures to eject, feed, anything.
Took about a half a day to scrub out the bore and action at the end of the year, gawd the residue was on there thick and heavy.
Yes, they put out the odd lemon, every manufacturer does. But overall? These things are tanks. They'll take whatever you throw at them.
Probably ran somewhere close to 1K rounds through it over the year, mix of target, bird, buck, and slugs.
Not one failure all year. No failures to eject, feed, anything.
Took about a half a day to scrub out the bore and action at the end of the year, gawd the residue was on there thick and heavy.
Yes, they put out the odd lemon, every manufacturer does. But overall? These things are tanks. They'll take whatever you throw at them.
