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CETME Question

emsfireemsfire Member Posts: 203 ✭✭✭
edited June 2018 in Ask the Experts
What type of Cetme rifle should I buy? There are many out there and I've heard that some are not so good. Please tell me of your experiences. Thanks.
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  • emsfireemsfire Member Posts: 203 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    anyone sick of me asking CETME questions yet?[:D]
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  • emsfireemsfire Member Posts: 203 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I recently got a ?CETME? that is somewhat unsual. Now, everyone knows an actual Spanish made CETME is a fairly difficult thing to find to the average owner but the rifle i have is almost all orginal (besides the receiver). The wood, magazines, flash hider (it?s not the pinned, CAI one), barrel, and trigger housing are all original CETME but on the receiver it says ?CAI Sporter.? The CAI Sporters I have looked up don?t look the same nor have the same barrel length (this one is 17.7 inches compared to the 18 inches CAI). I?ve read where early models of this rifles used original CETME parts but were made somewhere else besides the current CAI place in Vermont. Basically, what is this? I bought it from a family member that has had it sitting in his safe since the early 2000s. Is worth more than a regular CAI one because of the original parts?
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  • emsfireemsfire Member Posts: 203 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    talked to a guy today that has a "heffy cetme hk clone" in 308.
    dont know much about these rifles. he wants 400.00. according to the limited info i found, it seems like he's asking too much. it has wood furniture...i have not gone to look at it yet until i get more info.
    anyone knoy a little more??
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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My reference "Greenhill Military Small Arms Data Book". Shows that the 17.7" barrel, was from the Model C CETME. Made for full power 7.62 X 51 ammo. In the 1960's.

    My WAG is that you have a "parts gun", built using a Century Arms receiver. Advanced hobbyists, when the CETME parts were imported, years ago. Needed a receiver. Far as I know, Century was the only game in town. As far as CETME's were concerned. Wasn't like the H & K part guns. That a number of different aftermarket outfits, made G3 receivers.
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