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<blockquote data-quote="Rich Stern" data-source="post: 880678" data-attributes="member: 52580"><p>Bill, it's absolutely a quality firearm. High quality steel, heavy duty parts, all machined. I think the only stamped part on the entire rifle is the lever attached to the receiver action cover.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's a very well conceived design with few drawbacks, particularly from a simplicity/ease of maintenance perspective.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It has three flaws: </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>1) Difficulty of mounting optics.</p><p></p><p>2) capacity limitation due to lack of detachable magazine. The latter feature is not much of an issue if using ammo on stripper clips. The stripper clips actually load faster than a magazine change in an AK or AR. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And the killer: </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>3) It's more difficult/expensive to make than an AK47.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Some might argue that the rear iron sight is too small (typical of iron rifle sights in the first half of the 20th century). But, for a 250 yard rifle shooting at human-sized targets, they work well enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rich Stern, post: 880678, member: 52580"] Bill, it's absolutely a quality firearm. High quality steel, heavy duty parts, all machined. I think the only stamped part on the entire rifle is the lever attached to the receiver action cover. It's a very well conceived design with few drawbacks, particularly from a simplicity/ease of maintenance perspective. It has three flaws: 1) Difficulty of mounting optics. 2) capacity limitation due to lack of detachable magazine. The latter feature is not much of an issue if using ammo on stripper clips. The stripper clips actually load faster than a magazine change in an AK or AR. And the killer: 3) It's more difficult/expensive to make than an AK47. Some might argue that the rear iron sight is too small (typical of iron rifle sights in the first half of the 20th century). But, for a 250 yard rifle shooting at human-sized targets, they work well enough. [/QUOTE]
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