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Posted: 10/1/2007 5:33:25 PM EDT
| hey my local dunahms has a cetme sporting riffle in .308 and only want 600 just want to know if its worth it. and I've been looking for info on it and i cant seem to find anything on here. just wondering if you guys could help me. |
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hey thanks alto guys. yea id liek to be able to take it back but dunahms has a no return policy on ammo and gun. i think il just put it on layaway for a while. o it it doesn't have the wood furniture http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=81407576 looks just liek that one,. dont know if that changes anything |
I have a century Cetme. It has never given me any problems except, the silly plastic handguard with no heat shield gets pretty hot when you fire 2 mags fairly quickly. |
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New Cetme wood kits can be found for reasonable prices, check the bolt gap should be .004 to .020". Bigger is better. Bolt head should be 1.835" long, anything less is ground down and be avoided. Being plastic furniture its one of the run of the mill types, these range from poor to very good. Very early SS receiver 3 digit rifles & the very late model ones were made on exc condition parts kits. All Cetme's were assembled by Century, unless it was a custom build or a Mars import. Bill |
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I've had two, both by century and both run great (although I just sold one to a friend) I remember when they came out for 200-299 back in the late 90's and boy am I kicking myself I didn't get one then. I paid between 450-550 for each of mine, with some extras and other stuff. Although 600 does seem on the high side, I search them occasionaly on auction sites and they do seem to be going in that range lately. The 2 I saw at the last local gun show were both in the 600-700 range. And they were stock Cetme, not PTR-91's... |
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The bolt carrier has to be removed from the receiver, then measure the the front to the back of the bolt head. It's not a big deal, it's basic field striping; though your dealer might not think so. I have refurbished a few, +4 rollers, new bolt head and locking piece got them in spec, parts are not too over priced right now, fun to diagnose and fix up. The Cetme is a fun rifle to shoot, has noticeable less recoil than comparable Hk-91. I liked it so much, I purchased an unissued parts kit a few years back and had IGF assemble it. I gave it a trigger job and it is one of my favorites. Probably have $900 or so into it. Bill |
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If the bolt head is in spec and the bolt gap is in the .007" or greater, then your good to go. I'd get the +4 rollers and a G3 recoil spring from robertrtg.com. These would be preventative maintenance, the rollers would get it more in spec, the G3 recoil spring is 20% stiffer than the Cetme spring. Bill |
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Mine had receivers that were out of spec...there was no way to fix them short of a new receiver. The magazines sat several millimeters too low, so it FTF'd very often. I got it to work about 50% of the time by being selective with mags, and by bending the feed lips up on the mags, but this eventually caused other issues such as feed lip breakage. Some things on the CETMEs are non-fixable. I hope yours works out well. |
The too long magwell is common with the CIA's and is easily fixable. 
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Where were you when I had those two rifles? How does one fix that, without major gunsmithing talent or obvious 'riggin. |
Ingenious. Now why couldn't the Angry beavers at Century who put those kits together have done that? I don't weld very well, so I would likely have incinerated the mag catch. I'm glad someone figured out a way to make them work though. Really, though, I blame the BATF for not letting the entire rifle be imported. What stupidy. I have seen couple of MARS imports original, complete CETMEs, and they are a beautiful rifle. |
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Read the cetme forum for how to shop, take a list and feeler gauges to the shop, check out plenty and be prepared to cheese off dealers and walk away until the keeper speaks to you. I admit I got extra lucky in hitting a magazine-sized plate at 200yds with untouched irons on the first mag, with one that takes both cetme and g3 mags (g3 alloys just need a pat on the bottom to seat). No sense buying a lottery ticket, I won... but I did get the trigger pack off for a rework. Good cetmes are great guns! And I have a spare wood set if you get the century us black plastic instead. |
That's because the unmodified CETME modelo C was an excellent rifle in it's own right, designed by HK engineers, and was the predecessor to the superb HK91/G3 family of arms. The only drawbacks are the blowback action is quite dirty, and like the HK91/G3, the relatively small recoil spring system results in quite strong recoil compared to an SR25 or even the FAL/L1A1. Lovely rifle when put together properly. |
Yep nothing wrong with the action from a function standpoint. AR15 gas impingement action is very dirty too. Pistons add weight which is not always desirable. |
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