m1969 Romanian Trainer

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My wife and 7 kids each own one, the wife recently picked her's up this Spring. The rear sights express sights are rock solid as opposed to Rugers Williams folding break away rear sights,the front sight strong and hooded, the barrel longer and the buttstock has a cleaning kits.

Most excellent all around .22's!!
 
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Other than some of the feed ramps etc not allowing the good magazines to feed ammo upwards, they are very nice rifles.

This was deduced by using the magazine from the better gun in the other M 69; still no feed without assistance.

And they look like a baby Mauser, but with shorter stocks.
 
Years ago we found that , often, the rifles had wood stock shrinkage, loose metal to wood fit, but use and not in a way that wore the metal or wood in different ways,so we suspected wood shrinkage, alothough I do not know what type of wood was used......and that shimming was required to align the feed ramps to the chamber for reliable feed.

One rifle required some wood relief to acheive this, so it can be both ways.

Also, the shells often eject straight up and if not brisk enough in action a tip of the rifle to clear the chamber would be needed. Keep em clean and they shoot exceedingly straight and true when fed good ammo.
 
My brother had one. It was a functional enough rifle, but he eventually upgraded to something else. These days, unless I could get one cheap, I'd probably buy a Ruger American or hold out for a CZ.
 
I picked up a few of these quite a while back when they were $49.99 for exc condition rifles. They all have beech wood stocks, flip-up leaf sights calibrated at 25, 50 and 100 meters, and a ramp front with a pinned hood. The only issue we ever had was with magazines. Rarely did these rifles come with an original mag. Most came with a replacement from Taiwan that worked pretty well, but not perfectly. Also, the scope rails were an odd size as I recall, but not anything that couldn't be worked with.

Great little rifles that can be quite accurate. I sure miss the old days of cheap milsurp rifles.
 
I had one

that I bought from a guy who paid $49.99 for it. I might have given him $75, I don't really remember. It shot better than a lot of much more expensive rifles. OP, it doesn't take much to outshoot a 10/22, I might be able to do that with a sling shot.
 
A company called Quik-Site makes (or made) scope mounts that fit the M1969.
 
I missed out on those - really hate that! My most accurate 22 is a bolt action, bar none. It's a pre-war Marlin M80 (pre-M80 designation) with open sights and a 22" bbl. It out shoots, or shoots equally well as my Mossberg M42US target rifle with target sights. I may have to look for a couple of those :cool:
 
I've never been to huge a fan of Rimfire rifles just for shooting, I find them to be a bit boring, but I do like old bolt action .22 rifles like these. My Great Grandaddy owned a Remington 513 he bought new in 1949 and it now belongs to my Grandaddy, God only knows how many squirrels and rabbits were harvested with that rifle. I've shot hundreds if not thousands of rounds through that thing myself and it's still pretty dang accurate and is in really good shape to be as old and been used as much as it has. Seeing that M1969 trainer in action reminded me of that rifle, I'd like to own it one day myself.
 
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