Story:
A friend of mine purchased an RH10. It's from Century Arms but, before you guys throw anything, this model is supposedly 100% imported from Romania. What's more, my friend waited until Rob Ski did a (very positive) review on it before she bought it. It's on youtube if anyone cares.
It's new out of the box, but it basically fails to extract or stovepipes every round. She's really upset because she paid like $900 for it, so I told her it probably needs to be lubed down a bit. I hit it pretty hard with Rem Oil and worked it into the action. We had 4 rounds go through and cycle correctly, at which point it went back to it's original problems. I hit it with more Rem Oil and still had the same results. We've put less than 50 rounds through it.
Problem:
It'll shoot a round but won't extract it, or it'll stovepipe it on the way out.
My Thoughts
I have seen this kind of performance on an older SKS that hadn't been shot in years, and it worked almost instantly once I hit it with some Hoppes 9 / Hoppes 9 Gun Grease. I only had Rem Oil with me so I'm not sure if that's going to be good enough or if I go buy Hoppes 9 again.
She was shooting Brown Bear Subsonic. I didn't have any other ammo with me, but I did try to bring some metal magazines with (she just had the plastic Pmag it came with). I hear those are supposed to be good mags, but I guess we don't know since the plastic Pmag was the only one that fit.
Can I be the hero here or do I have to explain to this girl that her firearm is junk? I remember having a similar experience with an old Masterpiece Arms Mac-11 I sold a few years ago, and all it really needed was "broken in." After about 100 rounds and a good cleaning it worked fine. I'm hoping that's the case here but honestly I'm kind of nervous for this girl since most of the semi-autos I've bought typically work 100% perfectly out of the box.
Here's the AK Operator's Union review. There's two on this rifle:
A friend of mine purchased an RH10. It's from Century Arms but, before you guys throw anything, this model is supposedly 100% imported from Romania. What's more, my friend waited until Rob Ski did a (very positive) review on it before she bought it. It's on youtube if anyone cares.
It's new out of the box, but it basically fails to extract or stovepipes every round. She's really upset because she paid like $900 for it, so I told her it probably needs to be lubed down a bit. I hit it pretty hard with Rem Oil and worked it into the action. We had 4 rounds go through and cycle correctly, at which point it went back to it's original problems. I hit it with more Rem Oil and still had the same results. We've put less than 50 rounds through it.
Problem:
It'll shoot a round but won't extract it, or it'll stovepipe it on the way out.
My Thoughts
I have seen this kind of performance on an older SKS that hadn't been shot in years, and it worked almost instantly once I hit it with some Hoppes 9 / Hoppes 9 Gun Grease. I only had Rem Oil with me so I'm not sure if that's going to be good enough or if I go buy Hoppes 9 again.
She was shooting Brown Bear Subsonic. I didn't have any other ammo with me, but I did try to bring some metal magazines with (she just had the plastic Pmag it came with). I hear those are supposed to be good mags, but I guess we don't know since the plastic Pmag was the only one that fit.
Can I be the hero here or do I have to explain to this girl that her firearm is junk? I remember having a similar experience with an old Masterpiece Arms Mac-11 I sold a few years ago, and all it really needed was "broken in." After about 100 rounds and a good cleaning it worked fine. I'm hoping that's the case here but honestly I'm kind of nervous for this girl since most of the semi-autos I've bought typically work 100% perfectly out of the box.
Here's the AK Operator's Union review. There's two on this rifle:
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