jakk280rem
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There has been some buzz here in rifle country over the past few weeks about the TGI built FEG AMD-65's and I thought I would post up my experience with my newly aquired rifle.
The rifle appears to be well made. There was already some finish wear on the corners out of the box. But there were no sharp bits or loose rivets. The receiver is marked sa2000m and made in Hungary. It has a chrome bore and chamber.
Everything appeared to be good to go so I took it and a few boxes of Wolf 124gr HP's to the range for a simple function test and familiarization. I started by using the plastic 20rd magazine that came with the gun. After the second shot, the trigger failed to reset. I thought that perhaps it just needed some breaking in, so I eased the trigger forward and fired again. Same deal, failure to reset. This continued for the entire mag with the trigger reseting as normal after the first and seventeenth shots were fired. I pulled the dust cover off and started poking around a bit and noticed that the the two ends of the hammer spring that draped over and rest upon the trigger had worked their way off of the trigger bar and toward the center. This of course doesn't provide enough spring pressure to overcome the disconnector tension. I tried to move the spring tails out to the side where the rest on the trigger but could find no way of making them stay there. They always worked their way off the trigger and toward the center. Every round fed and fired reliably as long as i manually push the trigger back forward. After 70 rounds I got frustrated and gave up. Out of those 70 rounds fired the trigger reset normally 4 times.
And lastly, sometime from the first shot till the time I got it home the weld holding the muzzle brake on broke. My muzzle brake is now loose and wobbly. There is no evidence of contact between exiting bullets and the brake.
All in all I like the rifle. It is light weight, compact, and balances nicely. The brake really works too. Recoil is mitigated down to below 357 mag carbine levels. I am disappointed in the shoddy weld job and the trigger needs sorted out. But I think I'm gonna really like this thing once it is.
I just don't know if I should send it back to TGI or try to have it repaired locally.
The rifle appears to be well made. There was already some finish wear on the corners out of the box. But there were no sharp bits or loose rivets. The receiver is marked sa2000m and made in Hungary. It has a chrome bore and chamber.
Everything appeared to be good to go so I took it and a few boxes of Wolf 124gr HP's to the range for a simple function test and familiarization. I started by using the plastic 20rd magazine that came with the gun. After the second shot, the trigger failed to reset. I thought that perhaps it just needed some breaking in, so I eased the trigger forward and fired again. Same deal, failure to reset. This continued for the entire mag with the trigger reseting as normal after the first and seventeenth shots were fired. I pulled the dust cover off and started poking around a bit and noticed that the the two ends of the hammer spring that draped over and rest upon the trigger had worked their way off of the trigger bar and toward the center. This of course doesn't provide enough spring pressure to overcome the disconnector tension. I tried to move the spring tails out to the side where the rest on the trigger but could find no way of making them stay there. They always worked their way off the trigger and toward the center. Every round fed and fired reliably as long as i manually push the trigger back forward. After 70 rounds I got frustrated and gave up. Out of those 70 rounds fired the trigger reset normally 4 times.
And lastly, sometime from the first shot till the time I got it home the weld holding the muzzle brake on broke. My muzzle brake is now loose and wobbly. There is no evidence of contact between exiting bullets and the brake.
All in all I like the rifle. It is light weight, compact, and balances nicely. The brake really works too. Recoil is mitigated down to below 357 mag carbine levels. I am disappointed in the shoddy weld job and the trigger needs sorted out. But I think I'm gonna really like this thing once it is.
I just don't know if I should send it back to TGI or try to have it repaired locally.