actually i have been in close contact with Karl at mak.com, thats where im getting the barrel from in 9x19, actually he is quite a nice guy to deal with , the order got shipped a bit late as im pressed for time here (moving to new apt the 1st) so he threw in a gift cert. and some extra goodies as well. on the conversion itself to 9 nato the extractor lower half gets rounded and smoothed ,the smoothing has no ill effects on the 7.62 when changing back . some guys have done a mag modification by making a new follower and adding in a 1/8th strip in the mag in back pinning it, i have talked to some others who say use the 124 grain rounds or the heavy 140's and have had no probs. the new barrel was 70$ on sale so i just had to get it as up here in mid north maine ammo in 7.62 is a pain to get, but nonetheless a great round.i also got the hardened steel rollers. as of now i use an uncle mikes wraparound sleeve over stock grips that were sanded out and shot in 10 coats of epoxy black spray paint and cured under a lamp for a week or so to a hard finish, altho i just be making a set of walnuts at some point. it was a arsenal rework as well, the punched dots on the slide top is the giveaway, the amount of dots eqauls how worn the pistol was when shipped in for rework.mine was essentially mint inside and no barrel wear at all. the parkerizing was somewhat not my cup of coffee so i reblued it blue/black reminiscent of the eastern combloc police pistols.hers an interesting note tho , if you look carefully at the trigger gaurd on either side look for a Z stamping, this if you have it means your pistol has had the mods necessary so when decocking on a live round it will not go off. if not contact century arms and they will fix and ship back for free or maybe just send you the new saftey. the trigger was nice and crisp at 3 lbs even so i just treated it to a polish job any how making it a touch better. i like the combat sights as the hang up less than a set of targets would but im now thinking of just changing the rear to a modified and rounded somewhat target set.the weirdest comment i have had yet was "who raped your mauser?!" outrageous at best. also after looking for extra stuff i have seen these sky rocket upwards of 190-240$$ on the net and in the shops lately as theyre drying up some in stocks. one strong piece. i have been looking for a cz50 in 32 acp lately locally so i dont have to pay an extra 50$ in shipping ffl fee's as well as that tok33/48/54, the cz 70 was good with the extra round capacity but not as accurate as ive heard........
[This message has been edited by old hawk (edited May 29, 2000).]
