starkadder
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I am posting this thread in protest of all of the Century Arms haters that seem to quite abundant on this forum, I am a new member here but I have been an avid shooter for most of my fourty years, I learned to shoot a 1911 before most people learned to ride a bike, I luckily grew up in a house where guns were a way of life and put alot of meat on our table.
My father was career military with fourty two years in uniform, and with five brothers who all hunted we had at any one time twenty to thirty guns in the house so I have shot weapons from most manufacturers and in most common camberings and I have also collected military weapons since the age of fifteen so I have a good deal of experience with firearms. In my experience all firearms are subject to problems, some more than others and I can also tell you that spending alot of money does not make that fact go away.
My first .22 rifle was a Rem. nylon 66 that came from the factory with the barrel canted about 15 degees which was easy enough to fix but the gun was never what I called reiable because of FTE & FTF issues(sold it), now on that note I have owned one Ruger 10/22 and two Glenfield 60's, the Ruger is the most inaccurate .22 that I have ever shot(sold it)and the Genfields are as accurate as most bolt guns and will shoot thousands of rounds with very few problems, one of my Fathers MOSes was the Range Master for the indoor range so thousands of rounds of .22 Rem. standard velocity range loads made there way to my house.
I owned a Ruger Red Label 12ga that the breech opening linkage broke the second duck season I used it, sent it back to the factory and finaly got it back two months later and the safety no longer worked(sold it) Bought a Browning Gold 12ga and after 25 to 30 rounds in the duck blind it would start jamming and after about 300 rounds the stock split at the wrist, sent it back to the factory and it took four months to get it back and it came COD for the return shipping(sold it)Bought a Beretta super light 20ga for dove hunting, shot fine until about 200 rounds then it would go full auto when dirty(sold it)now that being said I own a 25 year old Mossberg 500A that has had probably had 1000 rounds though it with no failures.
Purchased a Ruger P85 9mm that functioned flawlessly but shot about a 10'' group at 25 yards(sold it) purchased a S&W 5943 9mm that not only was not very accurate but had to have the hammer spring replaced twice(sold it)Now that being said I own a Remington Rand 1911A1 made in 1944 that not only shoots 3" groups at 25 yards but will shoot 4-5" groups at 75 yards off the bag.
Now all of that being said I have owned 6 Century Arms rifles five of which I still do, the only one that I sold was a CETME because I really wanted a C91 G3 clone, the CETME I fired probably 500-800 rounds through with the only failures being surplus ammo related(seperated casings) I have a Century 10AESB RPK that has had over 1000 rounds fired in it with no failures. I have a Century R1A1 FNFAL that has had 800-1000 rounds fired in it with two FTE's. I have a WASR 10 AK-47 that has had 500+ rounds fired in it, no failures. I have a Century Tantal that I have fired two 1080 round tins of Russian surplus 5.45X39 ammo in with a total of three failures all due to the crappy corrosive ammo. I have a Century C93 G3 that is the only one of their products that I have had to send back to the factory due to the fact that the crappy looking U.S. made flash hider was assembled canted and the rounds would strike it at the top and it therefore shot quite low, sent it back and got ot back in 19 days, not only fixed but they replaced the flash hider with a German surplus bird cage, this weapon now has had over 600 rounds fired in it with no failures.
Now I know that this is one mans opinion, but then again that is all that really matters to the one man, I just really get sick of all of the hollier than thou gun snobs who tell the newbys that they have to spend thousands of dollars just to get a decent weapon, it's just not true because just like the pool shark that can run the table on you with a broom stick 95% of shooting is skill and practice, the weapon is just a tool and alot of these self professed gun experts can no more instinctivly shoot than I could carve a Black Forrest cookoo clock if I were givien the finest carving tools made. Not all of us are independently wealthy and can afford to drop thousands of dollars on a single gun purchase, most gun owners are working people with families that have to save up for a new gun or put it on layaway so please stop belittling those of us who spend what we can afford, and as stated above it has been my experience that the "drunken monkeys" do as good a job as any other manufacturer.
This is this! it's not something else, it's this!
My father was career military with fourty two years in uniform, and with five brothers who all hunted we had at any one time twenty to thirty guns in the house so I have shot weapons from most manufacturers and in most common camberings and I have also collected military weapons since the age of fifteen so I have a good deal of experience with firearms. In my experience all firearms are subject to problems, some more than others and I can also tell you that spending alot of money does not make that fact go away.
My first .22 rifle was a Rem. nylon 66 that came from the factory with the barrel canted about 15 degees which was easy enough to fix but the gun was never what I called reiable because of FTE & FTF issues(sold it), now on that note I have owned one Ruger 10/22 and two Glenfield 60's, the Ruger is the most inaccurate .22 that I have ever shot(sold it)and the Genfields are as accurate as most bolt guns and will shoot thousands of rounds with very few problems, one of my Fathers MOSes was the Range Master for the indoor range so thousands of rounds of .22 Rem. standard velocity range loads made there way to my house.
I owned a Ruger Red Label 12ga that the breech opening linkage broke the second duck season I used it, sent it back to the factory and finaly got it back two months later and the safety no longer worked(sold it) Bought a Browning Gold 12ga and after 25 to 30 rounds in the duck blind it would start jamming and after about 300 rounds the stock split at the wrist, sent it back to the factory and it took four months to get it back and it came COD for the return shipping(sold it)Bought a Beretta super light 20ga for dove hunting, shot fine until about 200 rounds then it would go full auto when dirty(sold it)now that being said I own a 25 year old Mossberg 500A that has had probably had 1000 rounds though it with no failures.
Purchased a Ruger P85 9mm that functioned flawlessly but shot about a 10'' group at 25 yards(sold it) purchased a S&W 5943 9mm that not only was not very accurate but had to have the hammer spring replaced twice(sold it)Now that being said I own a Remington Rand 1911A1 made in 1944 that not only shoots 3" groups at 25 yards but will shoot 4-5" groups at 75 yards off the bag.
Now all of that being said I have owned 6 Century Arms rifles five of which I still do, the only one that I sold was a CETME because I really wanted a C91 G3 clone, the CETME I fired probably 500-800 rounds through with the only failures being surplus ammo related(seperated casings) I have a Century 10AESB RPK that has had over 1000 rounds fired in it with no failures. I have a Century R1A1 FNFAL that has had 800-1000 rounds fired in it with two FTE's. I have a WASR 10 AK-47 that has had 500+ rounds fired in it, no failures. I have a Century Tantal that I have fired two 1080 round tins of Russian surplus 5.45X39 ammo in with a total of three failures all due to the crappy corrosive ammo. I have a Century C93 G3 that is the only one of their products that I have had to send back to the factory due to the fact that the crappy looking U.S. made flash hider was assembled canted and the rounds would strike it at the top and it therefore shot quite low, sent it back and got ot back in 19 days, not only fixed but they replaced the flash hider with a German surplus bird cage, this weapon now has had over 600 rounds fired in it with no failures.
Now I know that this is one mans opinion, but then again that is all that really matters to the one man, I just really get sick of all of the hollier than thou gun snobs who tell the newbys that they have to spend thousands of dollars just to get a decent weapon, it's just not true because just like the pool shark that can run the table on you with a broom stick 95% of shooting is skill and practice, the weapon is just a tool and alot of these self professed gun experts can no more instinctivly shoot than I could carve a Black Forrest cookoo clock if I were givien the finest carving tools made. Not all of us are independently wealthy and can afford to drop thousands of dollars on a single gun purchase, most gun owners are working people with families that have to save up for a new gun or put it on layaway so please stop belittling those of us who spend what we can afford, and as stated above it has been my experience that the "drunken monkeys" do as good a job as any other manufacturer.
This is this! it's not something else, it's this!
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. I've owned century rifles, and have never had a complaint about them. quality control isn't the best at century, and there's always the chance of getting a bad apple, as with any rifle. but most are very good.
