Type 81 Owners Corner !
- Thread starter Zab
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If you pay $1000 for a 35 year old design Chinese made surplus rifle you expect perfection? Wow! I'd hate to see what you expect when you start buying real guns.
But they are made with the same equipment and in the same way they've always been made by the same guys who were trained by the guys before them and before them. Why would these be any different. They don't give a crap about perfection, only that it works, if anything they would care even less about the build quality of export rifles, not like they offer a return policy or anything and they know they're for North America so why would they give a crap if they're any better than older ones.
Well, don't judge them by the targets I've posted showing my crappy groups, I have a hard time with these type of sights which is why I removed the top bar over the rear sight and also widened the "V". I still suck but at least now I can see the target when looking through the sights. I can ring my plates at 25 and 50 yards consistently, and it's good enough at 100 that I'd smoke any coyote that I see on my land so it's good enough for me.
2 moa? That's some damn fine shooting. I'm hoping someone comes up with a way to at least mount a dot sight on these, I didn't think I was going to need optics but after not shooting irons for a few years and getting older my eyes don't like this. I'm still pretty decent with a diopter sight like my AR-180B has though
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- Location
- Georgetown Ontario
Rails are delayed for a unspecified reason along with another unspecified magazine issue, so somebody shooting with a optic on the rail will have to wait a while, the rest of the week it seems. That's also assuming there are any mags left to ship when they finally get around to shipping quadrails out.
Well, when I think about accuracy of a firearm it's only benched that matters, otherwise you're just looking at the skills of the shooter. Even off the bench you've gotta be doing something right because you still have influence over the results even though it's reduced.
If I could get my hands on a spare dust cover I'd figure out a way to mount a rail on it but I don't want to risk ruining the one on it.
yeah its pretty bad. Worse than any AK cover I have seen
How do the side mounts attach to the receiver on the other guns? Drill and tap? I'd buy one of these
https://www.kellysonline.ca/collections/scope-mounts/products/csa-vz-58-fixed-scope-mount
It could easily be modified to clear the safety but I don't know if it could actually be attached to the receiver.
ComradeVlad
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Even if the receiver was 2mm thick.... it still wouldnt be thick enough to tap. Definitely gonna come down to bolting, riveting or possibly welding if the owners has the balls for it.
I think that's only the CSA ones.
The VZ receiver sidewall has plenty of depth (eg. "meat") to allow the use of screws or bolts with a fine machine thread.
ComradeVlad
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- To the West
On the CSA's, the rear hole is around 5mm; barely adequate for threading a machine screw, the forward hole however is threaded into a solid portion of the receiver that is as thick as the receiver is wide.
People are saying the Type 81's receiver is maybe 1.5mm thick, soooooo im not dusting off the tap set when mine arrives lol
People are saying the Type 81's receiver is maybe 1.5mm thick, soooooo im not dusting off the tap set when mine arrives lol
