Educate me on ZKK-602s please

[rookhawk]

Thanks for the info, everyone. We opted for a Dakota 76 instead, so this one is available for sale. I posted the location of the gun in the "Good Gun Deals This Week" thread in the AH classifieds. I appreciate all the info provided.

 

[Shootist43]

While the ZKK 602 would have made an excellent rifle for your son, the Dakota 76 is more your style, enjoy!!

 

[rookhawk]

While the ZKK 602 would have made an excellent rifle for your son, the Dakota 76 is more your style, enjoy!!

After learning more about the ZKK I had no issue with buying one at all, the math didn’t work for me in the end when I found a “ready to go” alternative, but I couldn’t have come closer to a purchase.

$800 plus shipping both ways to fit and install 3-position side safety and standard safari trigger. ($1000) Non-negotiable. Just not going to hand my kid a gun that doesn’t use a tang safety or a 3-pos, that’s what he’s used since he was 5.

$800 plus shipping both ways to fit and install EAW pivot mounts ($1000) or $125 for reasonable quality Warne QD set of rings.

Some other work specific to kids like recoil weights in the fore stock. Practical improvements I always do, stripping off or at least removing much of the surface finish to get a decent build up of an oil finish going. (So I can keep the gun looking good year after year by just rubbing in a bit more oil)

At any rate, I added it all up and It was going to be a $3000 gun, plus an optic I have laying around. For that magnitude of money I was able to find a worn but not broken Dakota. That I know how to clean up and keep running and a kid won’t outgrow it from a quality and performance perspective.