So..............did you get one?

mistified said:
Just brought my CZ858 to the range. Some FTFs, and sometimes the trigger does not get recocked despite cycling the action. Is this called the gremlin? It's happened enough that it got annoying with 40 rounds of 7.62x39 non corrosive norinco silver box
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WTF u serious? Wow they should eat everything.......geez u make me worried
 
If anyones planning to shoot it without cleaning should reconsider. Mine had LOADS of metal shavings pushed through, big ones just under 1/2 cm long. I will have to clean twice.

Also it says they are not stored is cosmoline but my bolt looked like it was definitely cosmoline soaked, Either that or a giant covered it in ear wax. Still cant get all the stuff off it was so saturated!

My finnish looks flawless and test target seem to me better grouping them most people are posting so im happy! I needed this to complete my red collection!
 
^^^^^ thanks for the heads up ingot mine here and this thing is dry as the desert no oil no nothing I will take her apart and clean her good thanks for letting us know I personally wasn't gonna clean it before first range trip.....then I'm having this from you and the guy with the FTFs and misfires in previous posts
 
I think I fixed the gremlin, took the sear out and held the spring up a bit to give it a little bit more tension.

Gremlin happened when I fired and didn't have the trigger either fully depressed or untouched. If I held the trigger 'in-between' like around the trigger reset, the trigger won't recock. You can see if this happens to you by taking out the spring and working the bolt with the trigger. You will quickly learn how the trigger works without the spring cover covering it all up

As for the FTE, I think it was either a bad mag or just break in period, nothing I was too worried about. Gremlin was what had me worried, but once again, I think I fixed it

icelink said:
WTF u serious? Wow they should eat everything.......geez u make me worried
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^^^^^^^ Ok great to hear you fixed it......from the sounds of it you were just holding the trigger too much between shots
 
Mine had a serious Gremilin. Happened on all 4 magazines, as well as the 3 additional ones I ordered. Happened about 85% of the time with different ammo. Called Wolverine and talked to Dave. Dave suggested I look at under Red Rifles in Forums and look at the Gremlins post. My sear pin was really lose and you could push it in. I made a spacer from a 9mm luger casing and inserted it as per the video. Took the rifle back to the range and the gremlin was now at about 10%. Went home and took the rifle apart again and put more tension on the sear spring, re-inserted the brass spacer and oiled it up again. Went to the range 2 more times and the gremlin is gone. My last 200 rounds, there were no FTF's.
Most of the time you can fix it by putting more tension on the spring, but my sear pin was really lose, so adding the spacer really helped.
Dave at Wolverine was very helpful.
 
Mine also had a bad case of the "gremlin". Would rack the bolt but dead trigger, couldn't even get it to dry fire. Finally got it to click and was able to take it apart. Tried bending up the spring to put a bit more tension on the sear, got one shot off before back to trigger not functioning. Just installed a little spacer I made from a sanded down washer to stop the side to side movement of the sear... We will see tomorrow if it works now, fingers crossed!
 
This makes me glad I jumped the gun and got a csa with chrome lined barrel. Finish is perfect and almost 1k through it with not a single stoppage. Receiver is drilled and tapped for a side mount and bolt is tabbed so gremlin is impossible. All the accessories that came with it were brand new (scabbard, bayo, mags, sling, etc). The csa is worth the extra $200 imo.
 
Got mine out for the first time yesterday. Happy to say everything functioned fine for the most part although sometimes it didn't like to strip the first round on a fully loaded mag, loading only four worked flawlessly.
Have to say the guy doing the test target must have practiced hard to get the group he/she did though lol. At 50m I was all over the place. Maybe (probably) it was just me though, or possibly the cheap ammo.
 
secondstrike said:
Got mine out for the first time yesterday. Happy to say everything functioned fine for the most part although sometimes it didn't like to strip the first round on a fully loaded mag, loading only four worked flawlessly.
Have to say the guy doing the test target must have practiced hard to get the group he/she did though lol. At 50m I was all over the place. Maybe (probably) it was just me though, or possibly the cheap ammo.
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You didn't drink enough Vodka before shooting your groups.
 
So when's the next batch coming in?????...������...JK.

I passed on this deal but wanted to see how the rifles were doing after 120,000 views!
 
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