century arms g3
How accurate, reliable, and costworthy are the g3s made by century arms?
Darrell
Darrell
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You need to talk to the Resident Authority on these rifles...Mark Christian...Be patient...He'll be along shortly.......
Captain Kirk, Tech Staff0 -
The current crop of G-3's are made from original military components combined with enough US made parts to be legal. They have used several different types of receivers along the way. The cast stainless and the current stamped steel are far more preferred to the first series cast aluminum with the weaver scope mount top.
Thus far my experience with the Century G-3's has been positive. They will never be worth what a real HK is, but they are much more reasonable to buy at this point. Century seems to be using good quality barrels, not ones that are all shot out. They refinish the metal to a like new condition. They use brand new stock sets of their own making. They basically duplicate the original slim forearm design. The provision for the factory HK bipod is not found on this forearm however, that is found on the orignial wide forearm. Adding this forearm could put you at legal risk with the removal of their US made part however.
Overall, the availability of these rifles has allowed many, many people to be the owner of a "G-3" type rifle that otherwise would have never been able to find and/or afford one. The original HK 91's were banned from import almost 14 years ago back in March of 1989. They went into the $1500-2500+ range then and never came back down. In 1986-1987 you could buy an actual HK 91 for $500-700. Now 16-17 years later, you can buy what is essentially the same thing made with a combination of new and used parts for about the same money.
Unlike over the last decade plus, the mags are currently available at a reasonable price as well. That wasn't the case up until the last two years. They used to be $30-40 or more. Now they are in the teens or less. Making the purchase of one of the Century G-3's even more appealling.
LRARMSX@MCHSI.COM0 -
My roommate had one & liked it alot except it really had a good kick to it. I got a chance to shoot it & was amazed by the recoil it had. It's very rare that a rifle leaves a bruise on me when shooting from the standing position.
He had one of the earlier versions. Only criticism was that his stock broke in half other than that the gun was very reliable.
He added a bipod by taking off the forearm and drilling a hole thru it. He then bolted on a haris bipod. The thing looked pretty cool.
I'm thinking of buying myself a Cetme, I hear recoil is not as bad since the Cetme weighs more than the HK. Also the Cetme is less expensive.
A great Cetme website which may be useful to you: http://www.geocities.com/miketheelectrician1/cetme1.html
Regards,
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Is the kick really that bad, I will probably shoot it quite a bit. I was also wondering what size groups it will shoot.
Darrell0 -
My Century G3 has a muzzlebreak that reduces the kick a lot. It was standard on the rifle. It increases the noise plenty though. 0
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