Bought two broken rifles in one week!

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I won't use any brand names in deference to the anti gun brand bashing rule on High Road.

I bought two brand new rifles this week, one a semi-auto AK and another a lever action .22. The .22 had a rear sight that was knocked a half inch off its axis by some dolt. The AK has a reciever cover that can't be removed.:cuss:

Each of these problems could have been noticed if two guys had taken 60 seconds to look at the rifles before they left their factories, but no......slap em together and throw em in the box and ship em!!!!!!!:banghead:
 
It's not bashing if you have a legitimate gripe, like the things being broken. You should probably say the brand, so buyers can beware.
 
Well, its funny that the two weapons in question I have never head anybody say anything bad about, a Henry Model 1 lever action .22, which has been returned to the factory. The other is is a Saiga 7.62X39. I don't know if I should return it the Russian American Arms, the importer or have a local gunsmith cut the reciever cover off, fix the problem and replace it with a new one. I bought the Saiga from one of those online dealers and I can't march it back into a store like I did the Henry.

How disappointing, the AK was made at the famous Izmash plant....yeah the one where General Kalashnikov worked before his retirement. He ought to come back for one day and box the ears of the vodka -soaked dullard who didn't check my rifle.
 
The neat thing about Henry's if that there is a problem the president of the company, Anothony Imperato, becomes directly invovled. The problem will get fixed. Most people I have talked to say that when they do get their guns back they are often better than new.
 
AK reciever covers that are inordinantly tight isn't that uncommon. It's actualy a case of the tolerances being too good.

You just need to really push hard on the takedown button on the back of the cover and give the cover a good yank. Do this a few times and it'll losen up. Use leather gloves and a hard plastic object to press the button down. It'll come off.
 
The neat thing about Henry's if that there is a problem the president of the company, Anothony Imperato, becomes directly invovled. The problem will get fixed. Most people I have talked to say that when they do get their guns back they are often better than new.
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A friend of mine was disappointed in their slide action .22 rifle. It would not put a round into point of aim, even with the rear sight drifted all the way to the extreme right.

He returned the rifle to the factory. He received a phone call back from Henry saying that the barrel was bad and that shortly they would put a new barrel on his rifle.

The rifle was returned in a couple of weeks and it did get a new barrel. The rifle shoots fine now.

Pilgrim
 
The top cover on the AK reciever is simply snapped into place in the same way that one puts it on after stripping, I do not believe that there is a machine involved in this proccess. If it was put on by hand it can be taken of by hand, you might need some leverage though (maybe jamming a screwdriver into the release while you try to pull it off, might scratch things, but it is an AK and wont ever be pretty).

I wish I could find an AK with a cover that tight, I could actually mount a sight to it.
 
Is this your first AK clone? The receiver cover on the AK clone is supposed to be tight! You certainly don't want that thing coming loose during a string of fire and smacking you in the dominant eye... might ruin your shooting for a good long while. The cure has been posted in this thread and over in the other forum that you asked.

The Henry? Well... as you said the sight just might have been knocked crooked by a clumsy "dolt" at the gunshop. How is this the fault or responsibility of the QC folks at the factory? Can you not bump it back into position yourself? They are drift adjustable, hence the reason they're dovetailed.
 
Neither of these seem like a real issue.

Issue with the Henry: Seems like a problem that could have been spotted real fast when you picked out the rifle. Just a while back there was a thread about buying "handled" guns as new. Did the shop not have another in a box in the back?

Issue with the AK: With the understanding I have never owned an AK this seems like something that just needs to "be broken in"
 
I had multiple problems with multiple

guns since I got back into guns in Feb. 2006. This is the place to relate this, I think. I do not want to steal this thread so the moderator can remove this post if appropriate. Anyway, Number 1:bought a brand new in box Henry Goldenboy 22 LR in Feb and shot less than 500 rounds through it and it would barely eject the empties. Anthony did send me a new extractor and spring and a new ejector and spring. I had a gun smith put them in and it seems okay. Number 2: I bought a Navy Arms Replica Trapdoor 45-70, like new, probably never fired but technically used. It shot 18 inches high at 100 yards. A gunsmith told me that this is not unusual...that wrong size sights are put guns all the time in his opinion and they need to be corrected. This seems shoddy to me. Number 3: In July bought a brand new in box Ruger New Vaq and had to ship it to the factory for work because the cartridge heads will not clear the recoil shield and the cylinder locks up making the gun inoperative.

So, two definitely new guns and one where new did not matter so much because it was poor designing??? Three guns in 6 months. ????? What does this mean??
 
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