04-19-2008, 08:52 AM
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| How do I identify my CETME? How do I identify whether my reciever is stainless or stamped? I came across this site G3 and about 2/3 the way scrolled down there is a stainless CETME. If you click the manufacurer link it will bring up a pic of the stamp. This one is identical to mine. Does this mean I have a stainless reciever. I have long wondered why all the ones I can find are stamped CETME Sporter. Where as mine only says CETME. Is this an early or later release/build of the weapon? |
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04-29-2008, 11:33 PM
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04-30-2008, 05:33 AM
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| I second Billyz's answer. It's stamped. As for why yours says only CETME, I'm left with guessing the same as yourself. I don't know if it's newer or older, but I've seen it before. I bought mine used about two years back so who knows how old it is, but it says CETME Sporter on it. I'm guessing that it just saying CETME probably is cause it's newer, but that's only a guess and there are others on here that would have a better idea. Good luck! |
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05-01-2008, 01:11 AM
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| I would wager a bet that it's newer and that the "Sporter" moniker was how Century got around the Assault Weapons Ban that sunset in 2004 that said the gun had to have "sporting purposes"... by calling it a "Sporter", they were probably legitimizing it as a sporting gun.
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05-01-2008, 07:05 AM
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| my only question then is.... Do any of you have the same deal or are yours marked Cetme Sporter? I have yet to see another like this in real life, that is why I posed the question. JAC, I was also thinking that the sporter monicker was an assualt rifle ban thing. I just can't find any information on tracing these rifles back to figure out just with what and how they were assembled. I know a monkey with a hammer was part of it but I want to know where they got the stamps or the preformed receivers(flat) and how old my rifle is. Thanks for all the input. |
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05-02-2008, 02:42 AM
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| Mine is, indeed, marked as a "Sporter" and was purchased second-hand off gunbroker.com. The person selling said it had only been fired 50 times and this was about a year ago that I bought it. So, it could be one of the newer ones or not, I have no idea. Don't forget, that monkey also had a welding device of some sort to attach the US-made receiver to the barrel trunnion/charging tube area. 
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05-02-2008, 04:26 PM
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| Mine says CETME SPORTER .308 CAL CENTURY ARMS INC. GEORGIA, VT USA It has the flash suppressor cut off, so I know that mine is definitely a ban era gun. Last edited by Don357; 05-02-2008 at 04:31 PM. |
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05-02-2008, 07:20 PM
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| Mine is wood stocked, with the Century Muzzle Blast Enhancer, serial C30XXX. It is marked "CETME SPORTER" same as Don's. We might want to start a small database of Serial ranges, stock and MB/FH types.
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05-12-2008, 07:19 PM
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05-12-2008, 07:49 PM
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| Howd you get that conclusion? What knowledge of this issue are you not sharing? |
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