century c-15 ar 15 anygood???

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Yes, those are used parts inside. Those are the used parts upon which our military and, if I'm not mistaken, that of Israel via military aid, have depended, and with which they have defended our freedom, since I was a wee bit. I have other milsurp rifles. One which defended a communist dictatorship and one which defended its country in time of peace. But this one is my favorite, because it was my freedom, my life, my livelihood, and my culture which were defended at the cost of much blood, and in the face of a hostile world by these two countries, and it was done with this rifle. It also doesn't hurt that it's the most accurate rifle in the arsenal.

Yes, it's a bit sloppy in the upper-lower lockup. But that has no effect on the accuracy of the rifle. Especially not with the included accu-wedge, which snugs it up real good. The bolt carrier group is wholly contained in the upper and, as far as I know, doesn't interact with the lower except at the time of hammer strike on the firing pin, and upon cycling into the buffer.

It's my wife's rifle. I give her the best guns in the house.

Yes, I've had an issue with Century. There was a bolt gap issue (0.026") on my CETME. They replaced the rifle with a superior unit, which they sighted in before they sent it to me. It is so close to true spec that it actually prefers CETME magazines to G3 mags. The bolt gap on the new one is 0.010". That's the geometric mean of the spec range. I had waited until my warranty was almost up before I even called them about the bad bolt gap. I like my new CETME. I love my wife's rifle.
 
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Century did not build rifles for the US military...parts are USGI, yes, but the rifle as a whole is not. I am sure that some are good, but like it or not Century has put out some (or rather a multitude of) real duds to put it nicely.

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It's my wife's rifle. I give her the best guns in the house.
Yeah, I thought about buying one for my wife, just so I could reclaim my 9mm AR.

My marriage wasn't the greatest...
 
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Yes, those are used parts inside. Those are the used parts upon which our military and, if I'm not mistaken, that of Israel via military aid, have depended, and with which they have defended our freedom, since I was a wee bit.

I packed several of those rifles around back in the day and I didn't have any more respect for them then than I do now. I'm sure our frontline troops in Germany and Korea had better, but as a National Guardsman the M16A1's we had in our armory were worn out and unreliable. If anything was responsible for giving the M16 a bad reputation, it was probably those racks of cruddy old M16A1's and their suspect magazines as much as anything else.

I hated the M16 platform until we got the M16A2.
 
M16a2

It is an A2.

Specifically, my wife's was one of the following models:

737
741
742
745
746
750


I have yet to narrow it further, but it is probably a 737 or 741 as the 742, 745, and 746 had bipods and the 750 was a light machinegun, which had to be a rarity. The bolt carrier group is probably from the '90's or later, given the peening pattern.
 
Is century building the upper assembly from parts? Or are they using pre-assembled surplus uppers?

If I knew that Century was not monkeying with the upper (pun intended), then I'm thinking about swapping the Century lower with a Nodak retro lower. But if Century built the entire rifle from parts, then I think I'll stay away.

Anybody know either way?
 
Given that the barrels are new, at least that much was changed. Outside of that, there is no logical reason for them to have done anything else, other than to machine off the 3-round burst or full-auto stuff on the underside of the bolt carrier. Remember, they got the rifles basically complete. The more they monkey, the more they have to pay the monkeys.
 
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