Century C93 Sporter, anybody have one of these?

[Frankl03]

Aim Surplus has these on Sale for $799. Sort of thinking of buying one.

Anybody have one? How are they? Any problems? I know asking if somebody has problems with a Century rifle could stir up some stuff.

If you have one, how do you like it? Have you checked the bolt gap? Thanks for your replies!

 

[nalioth]

Nope.

We've never heard of them here.

 

[starkadder]

I have a C91 that I picked up at a gun show a few years ago and I love it

And I hear that the C93's are built even better than the 91's

All of you century bashers are welcome to jump in now,(where are you?) but my rifle is very nice. No ground bolt face, no rustolium paint job, and an origional spec. stamped stainless receiver.

I can regularly shoot 1" groups off the bag at 200yds and can put a full mag into a 8" gong at 100yds off hand and it wiil eat anything that you feed it and no failures after 1500+ rounds

IMHO you can't go wrong, for the money you cant buy a better 5.56 battle rifle, the only down side is that the mags are not cheap

Now I am going to sit back and wait for the usual parade of Century haters to jump in, it is usually quite comical, especialy all this talk of monkeys.(monkeys! monkeys! we don't have no stinking monkeys!)

This is this! It's not something else, it's this!

Don't pull it if you don't plan to use it, and don't use it if you don't plan to kill!

ALWAYS REMEMBER OUR MEN AND WOMEN OVER THERE.

 

[marktx]

I got one earlier this week from JG sales, it has a single digit s/n

Will put up more info later but I'm happy with it so far, not a bad deal for $800. Liked it enough that I ordered a second one from AIM

 

[marktx]

Have you checked the bolt gap?

First thing I did... It was between .008 and .011, didn't have any in between gauges to get it more exactly. Just rechecked it and gap is the same after ~80 rounds.

 

[Frankl03]

Thanks for the responses on the Century C93! I may get one. I'm waiting on some cash from a rifle sale. Hope they still have them in a week or two.

Marktx Good to here about the bolt gap being with in tolerances.

Frank

 

[Arbor]

I can regularly shoot 1" groups off the bag at 200yds

Really??

 

[marktx]

Really??

I killed a Panda with a head shot at 1000 yards with my Mosin Nagant. Iron sights, 20 knot cross wind.

Sort of thinking of buying one.

Here are my write ups from another board.... it's copied and pasted so please excuse any disjointed grammar


The stock is painted and has dings and wear but is servicable. Paint on flash hider is beat up. Rear sight drum is at 200 and I'm not able to move it yet,very stiff. Drum is dented good on one side of the 100 notch.

Overall so far I'm happy with it, the rifle isn't perfect but for around 1/3 the price of a full on HK I would say it's worth it. On that subject AIM just listed them for $799 with two mags and a bayonet and I ordered another one

Pics finally.... please excuse the plastic chair and lousy bit of lawn. I was cleaning it out with denatured alcohol

Initial disassembly took a little muscle, the stock was tight and it took a buddy pulling on it while I pulled on the receiver to get it off. Hand guard pin was also a bit tight but came out and handguard came off by slightly prying on the front with a screwdriver. No other problems apart from that.

There are some grind type marks on the inside of the receiver, mostly underneath the rear sight area but there are some on the bottom kinda where the trigger housing comes up. As seen in pics the area around the trunnion isn't completely welded closed. It's not as nice as an original HK or a PTR but for the price it's not bad.

Furniture has some sign of wear but it's painted black with a few minor messy areas. Kinda curious about a buffer or lack of in the buttstock but haven't done much research what it should or shouldn't look like.

There is some minor mold flashing on the trigger group molding but apart from that it all looks good.

Bolt has some wear but not too bad from what I can see and no signs at all of grinding to force bolt gap.

HK claw mount will not mount as the sight drum sits too far forward, it looks like it could be attached with the rear sight removed but I didn't try.

Rear sight drum is dented on one side and was set to 200 yards. Maybe I'm stupid but I couldn't get it to rotate and took the thing off to turn it to 100 notch.

Putting the front handguard back on it appeared that the hanger thing for the front pin was just a little too far back which is why the pin is difficult to take out and put in. Stock went back on fairly easily and seems to fit better now.

The FFL that did the transfer just happened to have an collapsing stock for the 93 and we attempted to fit it. The rails were a bit tighter than ideal and would probably rub through the reciever finish after a while but seemed to fit. The end cap fitting thing that slips on the reciever didn't quite fit up though it seemed like it would work with just a little bit of work. Not sure I'm willing to pony up ~$450 for one just yet but it seems like it could work and might try it one of these day.

For yesterdays pic/cleaning session I had pretty much stripped the rifle and rinsed/scrubbed it out with denatured alcohol which made it dry as a bone. Didn't lubricate anything during re-assembly though there was some grease left inside the bolt/carrier. Before shooting today I shot som rem oil into the open action and around on the bolt. It was a good bit stiffer than when I first picked it up but not aweful.

First shot was pretty much the same as any gun I might be unsure of.... One round in mag, charge it, aim in direction of target and pull trigger at arms length. Good enough, went bang and didn't blow up. Shell doesn't eject though..... Two more rounds in mag and try again. Shoots but doesn't eject. This is good ammo, Federal 55gr .223 from Wal Mart. Maybe it has something to do with me stripping all lubrication and only spaying with oil. I shoot all around inside with oil and run the bolt back and forth a bunch of times which gets it easy to slide like before I cleaned it. Check fired cases and the do in fact have marks from fluted chamber and extractor grabs them good. Load up a mag full with Winchester NATO 5.56 and try again. Works great, no more problems. Empties go about 10 feet or so which seems respectable. In all shoot 40 rounds of 5.56 and 40 of .223 and after the initial problems it works flawlessly. Didn't shoot for groups but seems to hit right on at 100 yards.


One other note about the shooting session today. I was curious to look at flute marks on the brass after I got it running good and held a towel over the ejection port so the shell wouldn't end up 10+ feet down range. Unlike the PTR-91 which will do it's best to eject an empty straight through the towel and your hand the shell actually did jam up in the action. Didn't count this as a failure as most rifles will jam up with this treatment. Their are only minor soot marks from the fluting and only a few of the cases have small dents on the neck. I'm not a reloader but I know a few other folks care about this sort of thing.

 

[marktx]

Rather annoying that this board only allows 5 pics at a time....

 

[marktx]

more...

 

[marktx]

Dang it.... you gotta wait a minute between posts too

 

[marktx]

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[marktx]

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[nwilliams]

I picked one up not too long ago and I really like the fit and finish of the gun, it feels much better quality than most Century guns I've looked at. Here's my original thread on THR after I bought the rifle.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=447749

And here's my first range report:

I have taken it out to the range twice so far and put a couple hundred rounds through it. I like how the gun shoots, it's very comfortable and seems pretty accurate but I really want to put some glass on it to really test out it's accuracy.

The gun gave me mixed results. For starters it does not like Wolf Military Classic at all and will fte quite frequently with the stuff. The first time I took it out I brought with me 40 rounds of Wolf MC and 60 rounds of Silver Bear. I loaded up both mags one with 20 rounds of Wolf and the other with 20 rounds of Silver Bear. I started with the Wolf and after three shots I got an fte. I cleared and reloaded and got off another two or three and then another fte. This went on until the mag was empty, I think I had about six fte's.

Frustrated and disappointed I moved on the the mag of Silver Bear and it fired all 20 rounds without a hitch. I loaded up my remaining 20 rounds of Wolf and tried again with the same results, one fte after another with one or two ftf's this time.

I loaded up 20 more rounds of Silver Bear and had zero issues, this time swapping out the mag that I had used originally for the Wolf just to make sure it wasn't a mag issue. I then loaded my last twenty rounds of Silver Bear and again I had no issues.

I took the gun home and cleaned it thoroughly and then the next day I went back to the range with 20 rounds of Silver Bear, 20 rounds of Wold and 100 rounds of Federal.

Again I had the same issue with the Wolf but I got through all of the Silver Bear and all of the Federal with zero malfunctions.

I don't know what it is about the Wolf that this gun just doesn't like but it feeds Silver Bear and Federal just fine. So far I've put 40 rounds of Wolf MC through it with at least a dozen fte's and few ftf's.

That said the gun does seem to shoot Silver Bear and Federal just fine. I've put 100 rounds of Federal through it with zero problems and 80 rounds of Silver Bear with no problems.

It's still too early to say if this gun is a winner, I think I need to put about 500 to 800 more rounds through it before I give this gun a final rating. I want to see how it functions with a few more brands of ammo. I really like the gun and if the only ammo it won't feed is Wolf then so be it, I can live with that.