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norinco 1897 any good?
john w
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I have always wanted a winchester 1897 repeating shotgun but finding a good not worn out one is hard to find. How are the norinco copys and do they also fire with the trigger held back and pumping the slide?.---- OK i did a search here and now my question is-- ARE the newly manufactured norinco's and better than the first ones?. Thanks Guys
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Out here toward the left coast where I live you can pick up a pretty good original 97 for 350 to 600 bucks, depending on your proximity to SAS shooters. Numrich has all sorts of parts for them. I've got a couple, one I shoot quit a bit. Buy a real one and own a piece of history. For what it's worth.
W.D.
The Norinco that I own is a good gun. It fires when you pull the trigger and functions like an original, ala slam firing if you hold the trigger back and pump the action.
Some folks just can't fork out $600.00 for an original Winchester 1897 to shoot CAS or for the joy of owning an original. The Norincos fill a niche and do it quite well.
If there is a SASS club near you go out on the day they shoot and someone, probably several someones, will let you shoot the Norinco copy and probably an original or two will be present to compare.
Bode
P.S. I actually paid more for my Norinco than I did for the Winchester that I owned.
Its true about Norinco though, it just depends which one you get. Sometimes they are junk, othertimes they aren't so bad. Maybe just depends on the lot, or if the tooling bits got replaced that day, or maybe if they ran out of old stock junk metal and got some new stuff, who knows. All I say is, if you get one, take it out of the box, and operate it. If it "feels" like maybe it needs to be "broken in" then doin't buy it maybe ask for another one.
Get a M1897 Norinco with first two digits "06" or higher. Serial number on front face of the receiver. Hard to spot. Best, Joe
The eariler models has some problems[:(]