Thread: Norinco 22wmr project

Ugly compared to its owner, or just generally ugly lol

Everything is ugly compared to me Muzr. You know that.....
Play nice and you could have a fiddle with it

Good thread Cambo I am watching with interest.
I am also a bit of a Norinco .22 magnum fan. You can still buy magazines new for as low as $50 (5shot). What I did was bought a couple of the earler models JW15D which had 10 shot magazines cheap on trade me and put a 5shot magazine on and resold. Occasionally 5 shot magazines come up on Trade Me and I have bought some for as little as $20.
I bought one of these rifles over 25 years ago, put a cheap 6x nikko stirling scope on it (still on it with no problems), and I would hate to think what it has shot, it would have shot 2 or 3 deer, several goats, literally 100s of wallabies, god knows how many rabbits and hares(500+ rabbits in one day when they were in their peak in central) and probably about 40+ cattle beasts (homekill).
This old rifle looks like shit but still shoots like shit. I use Winchester 40gr HP and buy it in 10 brick lots normally a couple of times a year but I religiously clean it thoroughly after use. All I have done to it is a minor trigger adjustment and cleaned out the forend so the barrel doesnt touch the stock anymore.
I was going to keep one of the other Norincos I bought and get it threaded for a suppressor for night shooting just as you have done but instead bought one of the only .22mags that I have seen that shoots better than my old Norinco magnum already threaded,a Marlin XT. I doubt if the Marlin will outlast my Norinco. Incidentally the other 3 I bought and passed on also shot oK.
I did hear the other day of a gunsmith that will not thread Norincos because sometimes the bore is not centred correctly in the barrel.
Critics down cry and boohoo them because of their finish but just about all of my mates that have used mine have gone and bought one the same.
Mine is my go to rifle. I also own a .22, a .17hmr and a ,223 but if I could only have 1 rifle I would keep my .22magnum Norinco.
So keep posting your progress.