#Century arms l1a1 sporter install#

And, best of all, used, but as-new Aluminum light-weight paratrooper 20-rd magazines were selling for 99-cents each. And, whoever owned it before I did, performed a fairly decent spray paint can camo paint job on the entire gun – again, not a deal-breaker. One difference was it had a faux flash hider on it, not a deal-breaker. Many years ago, I purchased a used Century Arms rifle that was marked “C308” and it looked very similar to the H&K Model 91 (“HK91”) battle rifle, with only a few slight differences. They are now taking extra care in assembling the military pattern rifles that they are selling.

#Century arms l1a1 sporter install#

On one gun, it simply needed the gas piston rod straightened out – who would have been so stupid to install a bent gas piston rod? Obviously, Century doesn’t test-fire the guns they assemble The good news is that Century Arms has improved their quality control. Fortunately, I was able to do a little gunsmithing on those guns and get them up and running. There were a lot of problems with Century Arms AK-47s not functioning. It has been widely reported that Century Arms, were using trained chimps to assemble their semi-auto only version of the AK-47. However they had a reputation of working without any lube or being cleaned – not the most accurate battle rifles, but they worked. The AKs were used and abused, and rarely cleaned. They were designed that way, so they were easy to maintain by fighters in Third World countries, who didn’t know anything about firearms. Now, if you know anything about the AK-47 rifle, you know it is simplicity at its best. Then, some years ago, they started making AK-47 style rifles – using a mix of used mil-surplus parts and some brand-new parts. Century used to import a lot of military surplus long guns and handguns, at quite good prices.

If you’ve been on the firearms scene for any length of time, you will surely know the company called Century Arms.