Got my PW87 from JG sales. Havent had it to the range yet but in some ways it exceeds my expectations, in others disappointing.
Fit and Finish:
- Finish on barrel and reciever is a decent blue, but the mag tube is a much thinner blue. Its a chinese gun what do you expect.
- Wood is actually very nice
- "bolt" seems to be low grade cast metal, surprising but consistent with a lot of other Norinco guns I have seen.
Action:
- Rough but seems to be smoothing out with work and cleaning, havent torn it apart yet but from the outside I can see a couple items such as the rear safety latch on the lever that with some smoothing should make it handle decent.
Safety:
- Not good, the gun has a hammer with a very short spur that almost always slips from the finger when trying to decock.
- Only safe way to range handle it is to leave the breach open when not inhand. Would not carry with a live round in the chamber. HANDLE WITH CAUTION. The hammer on the original Winchester guns wasnt great and had a reputation of unintential discharges when decocking. This one is worse.
Ok for $289, everything except the safety was as expected.
Fit and Finish:
- Finish on barrel and reciever is a decent blue, but the mag tube is a much thinner blue. Its a chinese gun what do you expect.
- Wood is actually very nice
- "bolt" seems to be low grade cast metal, surprising but consistent with a lot of other Norinco guns I have seen.
Action:
- Rough but seems to be smoothing out with work and cleaning, havent torn it apart yet but from the outside I can see a couple items such as the rear safety latch on the lever that with some smoothing should make it handle decent.
Safety:
- Not good, the gun has a hammer with a very short spur that almost always slips from the finger when trying to decock.
- Only safe way to range handle it is to leave the breach open when not inhand. Would not carry with a live round in the chamber. HANDLE WITH CAUTION. The hammer on the original Winchester guns wasnt great and had a reputation of unintential discharges when decocking. This one is worse.
Ok for $289, everything except the safety was as expected.
After I play around with the shorty shells I may pick up some brass shells, cut them down to 2.5", and load them up with BP. Should make for an interesting day!
