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Long Shot
« on: August 06, 2019, 03:47:14 PM »
I realise that this is optimistic but I'd like to get hold of a Chaparral Arms printed catalogue. Can anyone help? Failing that, leads to on line copies of magazine reviews on their products would be of help. We did not see much of them over here while they were in production.

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Re: Long Shot
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2019, 07:22:26 PM »
Greetings My Good Chance -

First off, my advise, which is free: Stay Away from Chaparral Arms.
I know you are looking for ads or reviews... but

the website has been gone for years, but here is a link to the wayback archives from Feb 2009
https://web.archive.org/web/20090205174946/http://www.chaparralarms.com/

some early online reviews were great. a couple of fellows got lucky and got really great Mod 1876 s

The worst rifles were the Model 1876
They went out of business, and for good reason. It was poorly made crap from ASM or Palmetto or ....
If you find a used rifle that actually cycles and fires, it is probably because somebody else rebuilt it.
The last guns went on clearance sale at CDN some years ago after Chapparal went out of business.
There are no parts.

There were some great online reviews at first, but it seems these were early built guns and production guns were a crapshoot at best.

There were some very few lucky folks  that got a gun that cycled and fired. The rest had problems and Chaparral would not
take returns or make refunds - they kept trying to "fix it" and claimed that "everything was within spec" even when a 45-60 rifle would
chamber a 45-70 ....

some horror stories are found here:
https://www.shootersforum.com/big-bore-lever-guns/38549-chaparral-arms-1876-need-advice-folks.html

Unless you have your own machine shop and like to take on a nightmare project, I must suggest that you spend your money on something else.....

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Re: Long Shot
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2019, 05:16:59 AM »
Thanks for the reply Professor. I am aware of the Chaparral problems - a dealer tried to sell me a couple cheap some years back. I figure he was trying to offload them but their reputation had already gone before them. I'm looking for some info for a series of magazine articles I'm planning on the various makers of reproduction arms. The link to the old Chaparral site will help but there are no photographs coming up. I contacted Charter Arms but they could not help. You have shown me that there is some information out there so thanks for that.

If anyone else would like to chip in please feel free.

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Re: Long Shot
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2019, 11:10:25 AM »

Hey Chance ....

You wanna go on down to the 1876 forum.  Scroll down to the thread by GeezerD and read through the trials and tribulation he had with a 50 caliber Chaparral.  His experience was not at all unusual.  He was just fortunate to also be a very talented Machinist.

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Re: Long Shot
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2019, 05:12:25 PM »
Greetings Chance!

now that we are zeroing in on what you need, I sent you a pm

btw if the dealer is willing to sell you 8 or 10 Chaparals for $25 a pop, I'll bet you could make a fortune parting them out....

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