damifinowfish
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There is a member in my club that has/had a Chinese one. It always had problem. The best one was it would go full auto sometimes. Boy that was scarey!
There is a member in my club that has/had a Chinese one. It always had problem. The best one was it would go full auto sometimes. Boy that was scarey!
Lou's memory is good. I bought one of the Chinese imports that a company refurbished and bored out from 7.65 to 9mm (think it was EBCO). They were uber rough and needed some kind of refinishing just to be sales worthy. Most had bores that were utterly gone, hence the 9mm conversion.
Fed Ord went a different route and installed new barrels. They would cut off the old barrel, leaving about 1" of stub, then thread the stub to take a new barrel and blend the two together for a clean seam. If you look closely at the GB auction photos you can see a line in the barrel about 1" ahead of the front of the mag housing. By all accounts Fed Ord did excellent work and this particular gun has a new barrel that should last a lifetime.
I took a photo of the right side of my receiver so you could see just how much metal they had to remove to get rid of the worst of the pitting (most of the lettering on the right side is gone). And you can still see minor pitting in the recessed areas. Lord knows what these looked like when they first got here. The Fed Ord piece looks prettier than mine for sure.
Out of the box mine wouldn't function but I replaced all the springs and the firing pin (the original broke just looking at it) and now have a functional broomhandle. They're cool to shoot w. the shoulder stock. Remember shooting mine at the AGC pistol range w. about a half dozen other shooters. At some point, while the line was hot, I noticed that I was the only one shooting. I glanced to my right and left and saw that everyone had stopped and was watching me hammer away with brass pounding the tin roof (C96s eject upwards like a Luger). A fun gun, just keep the web of your hand away from that hammer!