mickb wrote:My Norinco JW21 lever .22LR breaks down into two halves pretty neatly for a backup rifle, just one screw. But I much prefer to just take reduced loads in whichever caliber my rifle is for when something else pops up. I don't consider the .410 to have any value at all in the field, I had one as a kid. Slugs have a decent punch, but with poor accuracy, so an accurate .22LR would usually do a better job. And as a shotgun for moving targets, range and energy are pretty woeful so you'd be better off letting the animal/bird stop, then hit it accurately with a .22LR.
What sort of accuracy is the Jw21 Bladeracer, might be worth a look. Can it be scoped? Also what is the dissassembly like, a single screw/pretty quick? 410 is not too bad at close range here being rainforest. And if something is incoming the 410 barrel has some backup utility. That said, I am considering a dedicated 22LR again.
Also two relatives of mine got the norincos, I was very impressed with the appearance, a decent Winchester knockoff. However both rifles front sights were skewed, and needed replacing. How were yours?[/quote]
Not as accurate as my bolt-actions, and I primarily shoot it with the Williams peep sight, but it can be scoped as it has dovetails. You could put pic rails on the dovetail and then use QD scope rings so you can also break-down the scope for packing. I have tried a reflex sight on it with expected results, about 45mm groups at 50m, not atrocious but not precise either.
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Scoped, the rifle gets right around 30mm at 50m, so 2MoA, with the peep I'm around 50mm at 50m with CCI SV. These are off the bench.
I bought the rifle specifically for offhand at steel silhouettes, for which its accuracy is perfectly acceptable. The only live target I've used it on was a 46kg 'roo that was cleaned up badly by a quarry truck.
Yes, it's a Chinese licenced copy of the Winchester 9422, exactly the same in all aspects - a neighbour has a 9422M I've compared it to.
No problem with the front sight, but I did file it down from 70-thou wide to 40-thou for better precision.
Diassembly is a single screw through the receiver, the bolt and carrier remain in the receiver. I've been trying to get another OEM screw to modify into a wing-nut arrangement, but the screw is pretty easily worked with as it's quite large.
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A minor downer is that you can't carry it broken down with the mag loaded. I keep wanting to shoot a short video showing how quickly it can be assembled, loaded and fired - one day. A slightly bigger downer is the 20" barrel, but with the benefit of 15rd mag capacity (I cut mine down to 5rd) and sight radius. If you could cut the barrel down to 16" both halves of the rifle would be closer to the same length.
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