Norinco KL-3B .177 Caliber Review

Overall Rating

handling/balance, solid mechanism, decent appearance, 2 anti-beartrap mechanisms.

hit-or-miss QC, mediocre power

We've got two, mine and one for my wife. Both shoot upper 500's with RWS Geco pellets (which are light). Both have several thousand rounds through them.

My wife's is a nice shooter, with a nice trigger pull (yes, it does) and good accuracy. Mine doesn't group quite as well and the trigger is a fair bit stiffer.

I recently tore mine down. The internal construction is fairly robust, even if it has a crude direct sear trigger. The machining of the pump chamber, however, is abysmal.... several gouges (1 mm, a few thousandths deep) running the length of the tube, and even more numerous smaller ones. Obviously, it can't seal properly.

I do like the "2nd trigger" that is activated when the cocking arm is closed. If the chamber is open and the main trigger sear somehow lets go, this second one catches it before the chamber slams shut.

The cocking ratched, on the other hand, is probably about useless.