are cetme rifles hunks of junk?

Mine works good for me, I have a had a few problems but they were mag related.

thxxx  i wonna find out from everyone out there that got one ,,if its worth the bucks hainsawkill.gif

I was not 100% when I got mine, it works well for the $300 I paid.

I figured if I had issues I could always put it in the paper and sell it at a small loss

thats exactly what im thinking,,for 300 bucks its worth a chance ,,i wanted to ask because i get good feedback on here..and i hear alot of bad things about cetme's but what the hell,im gonna get one

Quoted: thats exactly what im thinking,,for 300 bucks its worth a chance ,,i wanted to ask because i get good feedback on here..and i hear alot of bad things about cetme's but what the hell,im gonna get one

I was sceptical, but three buddies bought $300 CETMEs and they all worked out of the box, except one had to be lubed well.
I ordered one and it is very reliable, took about 20 rds. to loosen up.

The sight adjustment is a pain. I bit the bullet and bought a $12 front sight tool from TAPCO because every other method I tried to turn that front sight didn't work, and mine needed windage adjustment, whisch is also controlled by the front sight.

Good luck.

cetmerifles.com and gunboards fr8/cetme forum,, ask these guys
as for me,, had mine going on 3 years now,, 2000+ rnds thru it,,only major issues was a worn LP.. that i replaced on choice not nessicity.
very good rifles,,, for the $$,, get the what to look for list from perro and go from there,,, and you better hurry.... centiry has stopped making them......

I have posted several times:

I have seen people write on this topic and have wondered what they were talking about. I have a CETME, my brother and a friend also have one and another friend has one of the new black rifles with no noisemaker on the end. These are all Century sheet metal receivers and other then hitting the mags with a dremmel they all work great.

We have (I know its bad) gone through around 15 boxes of Indian .308, boxes of tracers and many cases of S.B. and Australian. I have been very satisfied with the rifle and the price made even better.

For the money they have all been worth the $300 and change.

If you buy one inspect it very well, be prepared to do some "messing with it" and they do have a "break-in" time.

well guys i spent the 350 today and this weekend after i get it ..i will post back on how well i performs,,,