The question we wanted to know is, do shooters have to pay a premium to get one of these roller-locked mechanisms? The short answer is “No,” but the longer answer appears below: PTR PTR-91 G.I. So, no surprise - accurate, powerful, and well-made 308-Win. The C91 has been supplanted in the Century Arms catalog by the C308 rifle. Founded in the 1960s and run by William Sucher and Manny Weigensberg, Century is the largest importer of Romanian-made WASR-10 AK variants. The company was re-organized in 2010 with new management, and then three years later, PTR Industries made news when it announced it was leaving Bristol, Connecticut and was moving to South Carolina because of the former state’s just-passed stringent gun-control laws.Ĭentury Arms, headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida, makes and warehouses its surplus firearms and accessories business in Georgia, Vermont. was organized and expanded beyond the original 91-style clones.
The original “Precision Tactical Rifle” HK-91 clones were produced mostly from surplus parts acquired around the world from 2002 to 2006. The original PTR rifle was first conceived in 2002, when JLD Enterprises purchased tooling and designs for the HK line of roller-lock weapons from Fabrica Militar of Portugal. Here, we revisit the PTR-91 and a similar rifle, the Century Arms C91 Sporter, both chambered in 308 Win./7.62 NATO. We also gave Buy recommendations to the Vector Arms V-53 in 5.56 NATO and the Bobcat Weapons BW-5 9mm in that same article. We mostly praised the PTR-91 rifle in the January 2005 issue, save it needing a trigger job and a flash hider. We have previously tested three roller-locked rifles made in the U.S., including the 308 Win. The bolt then returns to battery, stripping a cartridge from the magazine along the way. On firing, force on the bolt keeps the action locked until the bullet exits the barrel, then the action unlocks and the bolt is jolted to the rear against spring pressure. These rollers, located on the bolt on each side, lock into detents in the trunnion of a stamped steel receiver.
The rifle employs a delayed blowback system with a nonrotating head and twin rollers.
The roller-locked CETME Model 58 was the basis for Heckler & Koch’s G3-based rifles, followed some time later by a semiautomatic version labeled the HK-91, which isn’t gas- or recoil-operated in the conventional sense.
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