Century Arms C308

[Driftertank]

I got my PTR back when only the MSG version had the top rail, so i put a MFI Picatinny rail on it.

I run an ejection port buffer on mine so my brass wont be destroyed. Originally i modified the port buffer to fit around the rail, but eventually the actual buffer end of the device developed stress cracks and broke off.

My solution was to take the rail off and have a radius relief milled into the bottom side to clear the buffer so it could remain intact. It has worked well ever since.

My point though, is the welded rail won't allow for the use of a port buffer, at least not an unmodified one. If you don't reload or mind scrapping brass, it won't matter though, and i suspect the welded rail may remove any risk of optics shift. I havent SEEN any movement from mine, but the possibility exists with any clamp-on rail.

 

[Intox]

starting about a 1,000 bucks i see https://www.gunbroker.com/All/BI.aspx?Keywords=ptr+308

Not to imply that I am in any way "rich"...lol, but $1k for a solid platform .308 rifle is more than doable.

 

[kBob]

We whine about the cost of guns today but forget that our money and 1976 money only have the same names, not value. (Speaking of US Dollars here)

It was very hard for met to leave the Federal Republic of Germany in 1976 with out a $165 (yes one hundred and sixty five dollar) HK 51/91 which is what GI Joe could buy one for in the land of the 'Rad and import upon being ordered back to the US of A on a form 6A tax free in 1976.

That was however about half a months pay and about two months rent in a cheap university area one bedroom apartment in 1976.

If I had had half a brain in those days I would have bought one, imported it and played with it a year or so and sold it for two and a half times what I had in it. Hind sight IS 20/20.

There were not that many choices back then.

Don't get me started on the 210 buck FN FAL MATCH I also did not buy then that was at the time the ONLY importable non machine gun version.

M71S Valmet .223 AK (with three mags that worked)for $200, when the only AKs in the country were Valmet m62s or chine guns......what was I thinking?

Never mind all the mistakes I made with girls from the time I turned 14 until I turned 30, those were just valuable life experiences. But my gun purchasing errors!!!!! How about a do over????

Anyhow Century just sort of scares me. Would not turn down one as a gift, but would have to be almost questionably cheap for me to spend my money on one.

-kBob

 

[Intox]

We whine about the cost of guns today but forget that our money and 1976 money only have the same names, not value. (Speaking of US Dollars here)

It was very hard for met to leave the Federal Republic of Germany in 1976 with out a $165 (yes one hundred and sixty five dollar) HK 51/91 which is what GI Joe could buy one for in the land of the 'Rad and import upon being ordered back to the US of A on a form 6A tax free in 1976.

That was however about half a months pay and about two months rent in a cheap university area one bedroom apartment in 1976.

If I had had half a brain in those days I would have bought one, imported it and played with it a year or so and sold it for two and a half times what I had in it. Hind sight IS 20/20.

There were not that many choices back then.

Don't get me started on the 210 buck FN FAL MATCH I also did not buy then that was at the time the ONLY importable non machine gun version.

M71S Valmet .223 AK (with three mags that worked)for $200, when the only AKs in the country were Valmet m62s or chine guns......what was I thinking?

Never mind all the mistakes I made with girls from the time I turned 14 until I turned 30, those were just valuable life experiences. But my gun purchasing errors!!!!! How about a do over????

Anyhow Century just sort of scares me. Would not turn down one as a gift, but would have to be almost questionably cheap for me to spend my money on one.

-kBob

I understand. It's why I make mention many times of how lucky I am in that my father purchased a Polytech AKS-762 w/ side folder back in the 80s before the ban, and was left to me. I only found out a few years ago he had left me what AK collectors consider a "unicorn gun".

And as an aside, were this not purely a firearm related forum....I would happily love to discuss economics and the USD and how they relate to atrocious misunderstanding among Americans as to how it operates and where a debt based currency inevitably must arrive.