G3 clone options/opinions

**LOKNLOD** · 01-22-08, 22:43

Folks,
I've got a buddy who's dead set on getting a G3 clone. What's available and what's recommended? I'm trying to steer him in the right direction so he doesn't waste his money and end up with some jammomatic cheap crap.

Thanks...

**TOrrock** · 01-22-08, 23:33

Over the counter.....the PTR-91 is the only G3 clone I'd think of buying currently.

If he can hunt around and fine a Greek G3 imported by Springfield (SAR-3, SAR-8), or a Portuguese G3 or XG3 imported by Pars, those would be my choices.

Or, pick up a parts kit and a JLD receiver and send it to a reputable smith and have them build it up.

If he tries to buy anything Century Arms, beat him with the rifle like a red headed step child.....

**Germanfritze** · 01-23-08, 08:03

Try to get a like new H&K91!
There is nothing like the original!
Only modification it needs is the flapper mag pull
every H&K related gunsmith can really easy install!
The Portugese are quite well too!
Have myself both types,
an original H&K41 and a Portugese G3-clone (called SAR97 in Germany!),
both do extremly well!
Do not wasten your or your friends money with cheap knockoffs!
In Germany we say: Who buy cheap buy twice!!!

**markm** · 01-23-08, 08:09

Originally Posted by Templar

Over the counter.....the PTR-91 is the only G3 clone I'd think of buying currently.

Yeah. I had one of those. It was a pretty good rifle. I had to sell it though.

PTR would be a good model to go with.

**HolyRoller** · 01-23-08, 10:21

Originally Posted by Germanfritze

Do not wasten your or your friends money with cheap knockoffs!
In Germany we say: Who buy cheap buy twice!!!

You say that in Germany too?

**Germanfritze** · 01-23-08, 11:54

And what nothing cost is nothing

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**LOKNLOD** · 01-23-08, 17:37

JLDs are the only ones I was familar with when he asked. Any quirks or unique traits to the JLDs that he should know about?

Honestly he's more looking at this as a fun plinker than a battle rifle so justifying an HK91 over a clone is tough for him. He did just buy a new P30 though

**TOrrock** · 01-23-08, 17:44

Originally Posted by LOKNLOD

JLDs are the only ones I was familar with when he asked. Any quirks or unique traits to the JLDs that he should know about?

Honestly he's more looking at this as a fun plinker than a battle rifle so justifying an HK91 over a clone is tough for him. He did just buy a new P30 though

Avoid the early post ban rifles, the chamber fluting wasn't what it should have been.

The barrels on the JLD's/PTR's aren't tapered like a military G3, they have a H-Bar profile, so it makes a hefty rifle a little heftier.

**Germanfritze** · 01-23-08, 21:05

If the G3-clone is too hefty for you
you can add the MSG- or SR9-buffer and the recoil is not so much!
For us (we were trained with thr original G3 in the boot camp )
the recoil feels very soft!
We shoot it with the A3 stock for that reason,
thinking recoil is your friend

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We normaly shoot calibre 8x68S, 9,3x62 and .404 hunting rifles

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