It's amazing how much better those MAK90's look with the stocks modified like that. I like the rear peep too.
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Other Chinese air rifles today
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I think that the QB57 and the XS-B3 were pretty cool as well. If any of those three were available for anything close to their original price I'd buy them in a heartbeat. As for the Fast Deer, I had one. It made for a fun project and I managed to improve the trigger and it's looks significantly, but at the end of the day it wasn't a rifle that I really ever wanted to shoot so I gave it away. The guy I gave it to used it to kill rats in his chicken coop and I can't imagine a better use for it.
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I have a good collection of the Chinese guns and can say the only safety I really see on the underlever B3 types is the standard sks trigger block safety. But there is a lot of variety even within a given model as there must have been numerous factories building them. In the under level B3 there are at least 3 different front and rear sight combos. I have had a ts 45 release on me when I wasn't holding the lever back in the 80s but never an underlever version, but I always change onto the lever when loading!
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OMG"well ya got the market corned on that"looking for a 22barrel and cocking leaver for a RWS 320 clown-b320. thanks Willy ([email protected])
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So I’m guessing you’re the guy who bought the big box of Chinese guns from AOA. Did you find any unusual ones in there other than that one XS-B3?
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Yeah I got the pile from AOA, sold for less than they listed it for in the end, the xs b3 which is a Pioneer version in .177 so that was worth the cost of the bunch which was my objective in buying it, were some oddball things in the bunch besides basic Chinese rifles, like a Crosman 2100 classic, Crosman Torrent, Gamo maxim swarm and a hatsan based Winchester break barrel. There are some unusual B3 rifles in the bunch like a Pioneer which looks early 80s vintage, I think I have all the variations now lol. One thing I will say is AOA packed it poorly as there were scopes mounted on alot of rifles that got trashed in the shipping, also some rear sights crushed. I complained to them but they just claimed sold "as is". I knew that, but they were not in the same shape they shipped them that's for sure. Don't think I will buy from them again based on that response.
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I guess I'm glad I didn't buy them then. I considered it for the same reason as you, figuring that that XS B3 was nearly worth the cost of the entire lot, that there might be some other good stuff in there and that I could sell the rest off for $30 each to cover the costs. The problem is that I'm a lot better at accumulating things than I am at selling them and I realized that I'd just end up with a huge collection of old Chinese guns that I didn't really want to shoot.
It sounds like they just threw everything they thought was worth $40 or less in a box and that had they known the value of that XS B3 they wouldn't have included it.
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Yeah I agree, I may keep a couple of these b3s but will sell the rest off cheap. Surprisingly I am enjoying the Crosman 2100 and even the Gamo maxim swarm. If the xs b3 wasn't in the bunch it wouldn't have been worth it. If you want a B3 cheap let me know, I am in the North Bend area!
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