YET ANOTHER MALFUNCTIONING C93

[travelinscout]

WOW, Century USED to be an OK company!! I would just stick with Vector. My V93 only cost a little more and shoots great!!!

[Jesser]

Your vector costs $500 more... That's more then a 'little'.

As for what to try... If you have an unloaded mag, and allow the carrier to slam, does it go fully in to battery or does it still hang? My fathers century hangs, but only on a full 40rd mag. Anything else is fine. My century was fine until I raped it for parts for my Baby Dragon from Jeff...

Use a flash light and check it all.

Also, remove the trigger pack, replace the end cap. Insert an empty mag and see if it hangs...

If it still hangs that would be magazine fitment with the bolt head dragging. The second test should only be done at the range and ouly assuming the previous test was successful.

With the trigger pack removed, place a loaded magazine in and drop the bolt to see if it successfully strips a round an goes fully in to battery.

With these tests, we can eliminate the trigger pack being the problem, and determine if it's the magazine fitting or the pressure on the bolt head from a full mag.

Good Luck!

[Blitzkrieg]

Now wait a minute, $499 is not too bad for a parts kit with a barrel.............

I have an RCM barrel already so all I need are the other parts and not even all of them since mine will be an A3 with a rail forend

Hearing that Century may have ground the barrels to fit makes them not even saleable to help cover a Ghillie build cost

[Lumbergh]

Send it back. $12 for UPS ground is a small price to pay IMHO.

At least force them to try to fix it. No FFL fee for a return directly to your house.

[romanhastati]

WOW, Century USED to be an OK company!! I would just stick with Vector. My V93 only cost a little more and shoots great!!!

I just got a c93 which was my first semi. Had problems the day I shot it then found out about jeff from a link to another link which lead me here lol this is no joke. He told me the price for a total rework which was about 540 with shipping our something which put the price of the rifle at about 1340 bucks (included paddle mag, new SW reciever had a hesse, Truinon, cocking tube, and repark. The vector is a little cheaper but in my opinion it wont be as good I think as a ghillie reworked c93, plus to top it off my bolt gap is staying at about .22. This is after I put 1000 rounds the next day I received the rifle back. Like everyone else says here on the forums its not bad if you treat it as a parts kit, which honestly is all they should be counted on to be unless by some unforseen occurence you get a good one.

[retrodog]

WOW, Century USED to be an OK company!! I would just stick with Vector. My V93 only cost a little more and shoots great!!!

No, they were never in Oklahoma. Ghillie would run them out of the state if they ever tried to set up production there.

[klyph]

Problem is, they are marketed as a functional product, not a poorly assembled parts kit with a junk barrel. False advertising is bad business.

[jfk]

Problem is, they are marketed as a functional product, not a poorly assembled parts kit with a junk barrel. False advertising is bad business.

Another part of the problem is a lot of people post how they have multiple C93s that were perfect from the start even though they had a low bolt gap, + rollers already installed. "I guess I got lucky" is what gets posted a lot. I would have opted to buy a parts kit and flat or receiver and had it done correctly from the beginning. A C93 is an expensive parts kit with a turned down/sanded barrel. That's a damn shame because RCM makes a quality barrel that gets butchered. If I was Mike (RCM), I would make extra barrels because the one installed by Century are less than optimum. A used C93 would fetch lower price than a demilled parts kit. The only way Century will get it right is everyone refuses to buy their stuff, but that's not likely.

[Lumbergh]

As the C93 saga drags on over the years, I think that this model is yet another in Century's long line of woe.

As I recall the CETMEs and C91's started out ok and then quality suffered more and more over the years.

I suspect that since any gun (especially something that takes talent like roller locked guns) is only as good as the builder, that Century is paying the outsourced builder(s) they are using peanuts, and getting crap in return.

[HKaltwasser]

I just got a c93 which was my first semi. Had problems the day I shot it then found out about jeff from a link to another link which lead me here lol this is no joke. He told me the price for a total rework which was about 540 with shipping our something which put the price of the rifle at about 1340 bucks (included paddle mag, new SW reciever had a hesse, Truinon, cocking tube, and repark. The vector is a little cheaper but in my opinion it wont be as good I think as a ghillie reworked c93, plus to top it off my bolt gap is staying at about .22. This is after I put 1000 rounds the next day I received the rifle back. Like everyone else says here on the forums its not bad if you treat it as a parts kit, which honestly is all they should be counted on to be unless by some unforseen occurence you get a good one.

EEk, a new receiver? Yours was more than just a rework. I have a Hesse receiver too and just squared magwell and installed paddle mag, which was a pain on the Hesse shelf. Why did you replace the receiver? I hope it wasn't just because of the semi shelf, which could have been repaced. I too would take a Ghillie built gun over Vector any day. The gap between Vector and Century is closing. No Century isn't getting better, Vector has just gotten worse.