iscareliberalsandlikeit
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I recently forked over $800 for a NIB Calico Liberty I carbine with a colapsable stock. I was pleased with my purchase for the most part but for what I paid for it, the quality was lacking. Reciever material seemed to be some sort of cast zinc potmetal that was painted. Hoppes no9 actually removed the paint revealing a uneven cast shoddy grey metalic material. 150 rnds of Winchester white box and blazer brass 115gr FMJ later with acceptable accuracy with the provided iron sights with only one failure to feed. 2" shot groups at 25yds. I'm sure the gun can shoot better than me but I will benchrest test it in another post once I get a proper scope mount and optics. Field stripping was user/field friendly with a single pushpin take down. This breaks the gun into the three basic parts: the trigger pistol grip assembly, bolt roller-bolt assembly, and barrel/reciever. When breaking down the bolt past the basic fieldstrip was *ahem* a complete nightmare. Fighting with the bolt retaining pin for a hour and a half. I'll think twice before I break down the bolt again. I'm going to see how much I can put through it without breaking down the bolt. The fit of the internal parts very much reminded me of a AK. Loose low tolerance parts, (I hope), for reliability purposes. This is a recently produced model...Post Clinton Assult weapon ban. (The ban itself almost put this company under, this model was debuted just before the ban was implemented) I purchased an additional 100rnd drum in addition to the 50rnd drum the gun came with. Both fed reliably and had the wonderful option to be stored full without the spring under tension. They can be picked up and in a moments notice wound up and slapped on. Magazines can be changed easily and quickly with the shooters off hand. Most of the weapons weight was ballanced over the shooter's trigger hand, giving this suprisingly excelent ballance. The trigger pull itself I found the be terrible. It was very heavy and long and spongey. My wife refused to fire it more than five times because of the trigger pull, barely tollerable IMHO. I originally wrote this post to ask if anybody knew a gunsmith who have had experience with this weapon's trigger group and could help me out. If you do please let me know. If you have any other questions concerning this, or if you are curious and I missed something please let me know...