Any PSL owners out there?

I owned one some time back and it never gave me a single problem. I traded it for an M1 Garand I have also sold. Wish I never got rid of it.

Nope. No problems. My Century PSL feeds all sorts of ammo from all 10 of the surplus mags I have. I really like shooting it, even though it's not exactly lefty friendly. It's just fun. Torso accurate for a long way.

I only load 8 rounds in my mags, I stripped them all and baked the cosmoline off. I load 8 as a preference, should shoot 10 fine, but I dont want the chance of rounds binding up. I too had to file some parts with a course file to smoothen them out. Works great, its minute of man at 300 yards but once that barrel heats the accuracy diminishes greatly. Its definetly not a go to weapon, its fun and cheap to shoot. Surely very tradeable in a SHTF.

Was this a Century built PSL, or one with a true Romanian Cugir receiver? Nevery have had any issues with my Cugir.

Have one for a while now purchased from aim surplus a while back, the cugir built version. Came with 2 mags, which never worked. But modified the mag to work, since then feeds/runs properly. Agreed on the round/powerful 7.62 at a very reasonable price to shoot. Let's see some pics

Mine is a TGI gun and I have never had a problem with it....I have owned it for a few years now. It always gets attn. when taken to the range....makes a big boom.

It is a very fun rifle to shoot. I only have the one mag wish I could find others.

Nice!

Mine was just a cheap AK in a larger caliber. Sent it on down the line. Don't miss it.

I sold one to a gentleman here some years ago and have regretted doing so ever since. It may not have been the most accurate or the best looking, but I still regret having sold it to fund my wedding.

I always knew I should have sold my sailboat instead.

I used to own one that would jam. One day the bolt hold open broke, after which it fed like a champ. Obviously the BHO is a suspect, but truth be told, I don't know.

A friend of mine brought out his Cugir PSL that had a problem feeding. After we played around with it for a weekend we found the problem was a tough and overly thick recoil buffer a previous owner installed. Could be that owner needed one for hotter hand loads or was shooting the heavier Milsurp stuff. Dunno why.

What would happen when shooting the 147 gr ammo is that the recoil buffer would just barely let the bolt eject the round and not pickup a round from the magazine but far back enough to catch the bolt stop like it had just fired last round. Then it was a real bear to pull the charging rod back while compressing the buffer to let the bolt catch a round and feed. Easy enough to remove the buffer and its never had a problem since after 100's maybe 1000's of rounds fire.

PSL's never had buffers, you might have one. Or you might have a weak operating spring. Something to look at.

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i beleive the reason behind the buffer is to prevent the bcg from hitting the rear of the trunion causing damage running heavier bullets.

my psl when i first picked it up years ago