Misha’s got a new PTR 91
Title pretty much says it all. Emperor Misha’s got range report up on his new PTR 91 and in the comments gave me some tips on getting my old CETME up and running.
Sometimes I forget I even own that thing. I bought it back in October of 2003 and haven’t ever fired it because of it’s refusal to go into battery. Should be simple enough to fix; I just keep putting it off and forgetting about it.
Long story short about the CETME, H&K G3 and PTR 91: After WWII some German engineers from Mauser were contracted by Spain to design a new rifle. That became the CETME. H&K licensed the design from Spain sometime later an created the H&K G3. Currently, because H&K doesn’t sell to civilians in the USA, the closest thing you can get to a real G3 is the PTR 91, which is made by folks that worked at H&K and build it on actual H&K machinery here in the USA.
They’re all basically the same rifle, but with the Century Arms International (CAI) CETME coming in as the one with the worst quality. Kind of like everything else that CAI imports and builds.