What Happened with all the SR's?
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Sadly i think alot of owners are just sitting on them waiting for someone to offer a remedy for the stock issue. I put a screw in mine, zeroed it with Western Munitions 150gr SP's and hunted with it back in the fall. Successfully and humanely shot a small buck with it along with some other pest species. Havent really shot it since, been too busy with other endeavors. It didnt like the Western Munitions... put 3 rounds in 2.5-3.5 moa.
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Hoping after I’ve recovered from the panic pistol buy that there will still be some for sale
Accuracy with other ammo?
See a fair number of them for sale on #######. Just wondering how that is all going.
Most on gp are new, never shot. Some went quite low. I believe the situation will change once the new stock is available.
Some people are saying they are very accurate, others not. I guess the big difference is in the ammo used. I want to see someone using Barnaul and report, at least we know the parameters at that point. I doubt the Chinese tested it with hunting ammo.
Sigmaco will be offering a stock adapter just like for the SE fixed stock and LMG but of course it will be like a LMG at that point. Not sure if he will be offering a wooden version. I think this will depend if there is demand for it.
Neither its the Dragunov style, SR model stocks that are breaking frequently.
Not to kick up an old thread, but I don't really pop into this place all to often.
I've been running mine with out putting a screw into the stock. I've got about 100rds through it, sadly I can't get out all to much.
I don't baby the rifle at all and just run it the same way I would any other rifle. If the stock ends up breaking, then I will end up getting the replacement. As it stands though, I've never had it feel like it's about to fall apart on me. I've even held it my just the stock and left the front of the rifle hanging there.
Sadly it seems like when the few who have had issue brought it to light everyone who has one stopped and basically left the rifle on the shelf or in the safes.
If you're already committed to just leaving it and keeping it in the safe until a there's a replacement figured out, why not just run the rifle? Worse case is that it breaks off and you end up putting it in the safe until the solution is pushed out. In the mean time though at least you get to actually run the rifle and enjoy it a little bit before hand.
That's just my thought though. I just hate having things I've paid for siting there because of a "what if" that might never actually happen at all.
I've been running mine with out putting a screw into the stock. I've got about 100rds through it, sadly I can't get out all to much.
I don't baby the rifle at all and just run it the same way I would any other rifle. If the stock ends up breaking, then I will end up getting the replacement. As it stands though, I've never had it feel like it's about to fall apart on me. I've even held it my just the stock and left the front of the rifle hanging there.
Sadly it seems like when the few who have had issue brought it to light everyone who has one stopped and basically left the rifle on the shelf or in the safes.
If you're already committed to just leaving it and keeping it in the safe until a there's a replacement figured out, why not just run the rifle? Worse case is that it breaks off and you end up putting it in the safe until the solution is pushed out. In the mean time though at least you get to actually run the rifle and enjoy it a little bit before hand.
That's just my thought though. I just hate having things I've paid for siting there because of a "what if" that might never actually happen at all.
I had 2~300 rounds down the pipe in my SR.
Accuracy wise it does best with norinco red box ammo, about 2.5" at 100 yard with mostly horizontal dispersion.
Hornady steel cased SST does 5.7" at 100 yard. This ammo worked exceptionally well in all my other rifles, but was a disappointment in the SR.
All ammo I tested seems to get around 2400 fps out of the rifle, could be due to the longer barrel.
Trigger is good on my example of SR, felt lighter than then regular t81.
I don't baby the rifle and didn't do anything to fix the stock "problem". It held up just fine.
The high point is actually the 4x optic, the reticle is probably the best I've ever used. It is not overly crowed but very useful for ranging targets and correcting shots on the fly. The tactical style turret with rubber cap to "lock" it is also a simple yet elegant design. It's a truly an optic designed for combat use.
Overall I still hold my opinion that T81 does not offer much over an SKS (both accuracy and handling). But the SR can be an exception due to the amazing optic it comes packaged with, as well as the better trigger.
Accuracy wise it does best with norinco red box ammo, about 2.5" at 100 yard with mostly horizontal dispersion.
Hornady steel cased SST does 5.7" at 100 yard. This ammo worked exceptionally well in all my other rifles, but was a disappointment in the SR.
All ammo I tested seems to get around 2400 fps out of the rifle, could be due to the longer barrel.
Trigger is good on my example of SR, felt lighter than then regular t81.
I don't baby the rifle and didn't do anything to fix the stock "problem". It held up just fine.
The high point is actually the 4x optic, the reticle is probably the best I've ever used. It is not overly crowed but very useful for ranging targets and correcting shots on the fly. The tactical style turret with rubber cap to "lock" it is also a simple yet elegant design. It's a truly an optic designed for combat use.
Overall I still hold my opinion that T81 does not offer much over an SKS (both accuracy and handling). But the SR can be an exception due to the amazing optic it comes packaged with, as well as the better trigger.
yes the scope is really clear and incredible for a russian ski military scope despite the civilian reticle.
I don’t so much think it’s that people expected sniper levels of accuracy out of it, I think it was more so timing.
I was contemplating buying an SR before the admen DMR t came out that was going to make a bunch of rifles paperweights came out. Once that was announced I bought one the next day, it was purely because I wanted my chance at owning one of it ever went the route of being grand fathered. It’s also why I ended up grabbing an SE too.
Then you had multiple people who bought them strictly to sell second hand for a higher “no one knows you have it” price. I feel like a lot of those people are now trying to offload them at or below retail prices because they scrapped the amendment.
Of course there’s people who also heard about the stock breaking and don’t want to even risk it as well too.
Historically the t81 supply hasn't kept up with demand, so I would think people were buying them with the sole intention of flipping them. Judging by the sale prices from TI lately and the fact they aren't selling out shipments in a matter of days I would think supply has outpaced demand now though.
It is an overall situation that people have less money. There is still demand for the current thing, like the CZ carbine for example or the Crusader Templar. The SR was hit by the stock problem and the government announcement. Once that phase is over, demand will go up again. Remember the LMG going for up to 3K and now you can pick them up with a free drum for 1,3. I also think the overall quality of the type 81 is a problem, cheap wood and parkerized metal instead of a nice blueing. Functionality has always been excellent. Then many people got sick of the missing scope mounting options because of TI's protectionism. If the CZ58 would still be legal, the type 81 would float half dead in the water as it did when it came out first.
