Centuries 1 year warranty starts the day the rifle leaves their facilities. Which means if it sits on your dealers rack for 364 days, you buy it on day 365 and then shoot it the next day, you are out of warranty, even though you've had the gun for only 24 hours.
wow think ill pass on my 74 buy for a while and skip century altogether
Those videos illustrate the problems I have heard a lot about.
He said it was canted, but showing how canted it was... That is just bad...
wow think ill pass on my 74 buy for a while and skip century altogether
I just emailed their corporate office this:
"Given that your warranty begins the day one of your firearms leaves your warehouse, what is the best method for the consumer to determine on what date that occurred? My gun store can tell me when they received the rifle, but they advised me that it may have been in their distributors possession for a considerable amount of time. Any help would be appreciated!"
Think I'll get a response?
Everyone knows that the Century keyholing issue was/is a BIG deal with the Polish Tantal rifles...
But has it ever been documented that the AK-74 rifles have the same issue??
It is not just the Tantals that suffer from improperly sized bores. I've read many reports from people on AR15.com, AKFiles, etc. where their CAI 5.45x39 non-Tantal rifles have problems. Either keyholing or in one case, no riflings in the barrel at all. Not faint riflings, but none.
Many report that with mil-surp 53gr Russian ammo they experience keyholing but report with heavier 60gr or 70gr ammo they don't see keyholing. That tells me that their barrel isn't properly sized or has the incorrect twist rate. Either way it's not right.
A quality rifle like the Interarm AK74's aren't much more expensive and have high quality Green Mountain chrome lined barrels. I would spent an extra $100 and get a rifle that will last a lifetime vs. something that may or may not work a couple of years and a few thousands rounds down the road.