Chaparral NWMP carbine

[RedBaron]

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I am considering purchasing one the 76 NWMP Chaparral carbines.  After reading a multitude of posts concerning Chaparral's products, I am not sure. Any specific advice from anyone who OWNS one of NWMP carbines, would be appreciated.

[Grizzly Adams]

I am considering purchasing one the 76 NWMP Chaparral carbines.  After reading a multitude of posts concerning Chaparral's products, I am not sure. Any specific advice from anyone who OWNS one of NWMP carbines, would be appreciated.

Some folks, like Hobie, have gotten good ones.  Many others have been less fortunate.   Parts the Chappie are currently a bit of an issue, as they must come from Italy.

You can get the Chappie for less money, but the bitterness of a bargain lingers longer that the sweetness!

I would suggest you consider Uberti's SRC.

[will52100]

I've got one of each, the chappy is a hair lighter and looks like pallet wood and scrap iron next to the Uberti.  And it's a good chappy, I only had to add a shim to the bolt face to tighten up head space a bit.  I've also had to weld up the sights and file them to shape to make them usable.

The Uberti is slightly heavier built, is a lot better on fit and finish, and has real walnut stocks, not the beach that chappy uses.  The only thing that bugs me is that it doesn't have the correct spanish meter sight, but what it does have is an excellent carbine sight.  Both front and rear sight aver very clear and easy to use and a heck of a lot better than the chappy ones.

To me there's no question, uberti all the way.

A side note, the barrel on the chappy is slightly better than the Uberti, haven't noticed a differance at the range, but the one on the chappy looks like polished chrome while the one on the uberti is mearly very good.  Nothing wrong with it, just not the supper polish that the chappy bore has.  Like I said, though, dought you'll notice a differance with cast lead and iron sights, unless you lock them down in a vise, even then I dought there'd be much of a differance.