I watch FleetFarms flyers pretty closely and saw what I thought was a misprint, a bolt action deer rifle looking rifle in a 7.62x39 caliber, full size rifle and not a Chinese import. It was the Century M85 mini in 7.62 with a Monte Carlo stock and full cheekpiece on what I am guessing is a waxed or oiled stock. The finish is tolerable at best but thats nothing, it could be solved in a few winter evenings in the shop.
I stopped by the FF in Brainerd today and the gun hefts up and fits my LOP almost perfectly, I was shocked because I had envisioned in my mind that it would fit like most other import 7.62's do and my trigger finger would be somewhere on the forearm. I kid you not, it fit me perfect and I dont have abnormal reach or LOP. It came up nice, held nice, centered nice, went on target almost perfect...now before any of you accuse me of being a stock owner in the company, I am not. I was just very pleasantly surprised at the quality of the action, fit and engineering of it all. And yes, I suspect one will soon be resting on my shooting bench with a few boxes of Russki ammo ready to test it.
If it shoots as good as it fits and feels, that will be the next test...but for $469 for a nice rifle, you can't buy a decent rifle for that anymore, much less a well made deer or varmint rifle in the perfect caliber for plinkin.
Here is a link, and Mods, if that is a no no, my apologies, I just didnt want any of the other users to think I was hallucinating.
http://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/century ... 0000092107