Hello:
Thank you Fred243 ill sure give it a try- never know might be my answer.
I did email Zastava serbia again and this time asked more qestions ect.
Got the reply below from them.
Hello Mr Eric
Models Remington 799 and i M85 are same rifles.
Our partner in USA,Century , will have parts soon , while we get export licenses.
Best regards
Zastava Arms
R&D Dpt.
Manager
Aleksandar Mladenovic`
I also called century again and pursued it further and from the discusion it sounds like that century has done the papers for import and sounds like they have been approved for import of parts but zastavas papers have not been approved to export parts to the USA.
So that would explain why century has told me three times about a yr ago and then about 6 months ago and now just recently to check back in 6 months on parts.
This process may have been going on that long from my thinking.
If its been that long and the other companies have had no parts as well then just figuring that remington carried the zastava m85 as there remington 799 back in 2006 and they had no parts then just from that date to this time has been close to almost 8 years.
And Charles Daly had the zasatava M85 at one time and now Century arms does so if you add there years in with no parts im betting its been 15 years or more the zastava m85 has been imported with no one having parts.
Its been tough finding parts as i have personaly looked for right at 2 years now and even contacted the other gun companies that had the zastava including remington and gone as far as to contact off shore zastava dealers and have had no luck so far .
I did get responses from off shore that it sounded like they had parts but once the USA address came up then it was a dead end.
Its looking like wait n see if century does get the parts or its going to be used parts if you can find them.
I do know that the extractor for the 7.62 x 39 in the zastava m85 or rem799 model can be found for repair if you order the sako vixen (Older model vixen) extractor #5 as i read on the internet fits perfectly with minor hand fit filing.
Otherwise parts for the Zastava M85 22 Hornet seem to be non existent .
But again thank you fred243 for the lead and i will ask about warranty repair as another angle on parts but think i ran into that over a year ago and it was send it back to us but problem for me was i didnt buy it from them and it wasnt warranty so sorta let it go at that then.
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Update : Did call Academy sports at 1-888-922-2336 and the gal on the phone was not really aware of the parts issues for the zastava and did give me century arms info to contact .
I informed her that i had already contacted them and zastava along with other contacts and she went out of her way to find info.
She called the stores asking the employees and said many of them knew already the no parts situation.
But what surprised me was she got a number of a gun smith in the business for over 20 years and that he was on vacation but back next week and that he had helped the store with some zastava repairs but on the m70 zastava models which she listed as 243 / 270 / 308 ect.
She did say she was aware i was talking about the M85 line and a smaller cal per the info she got from the other store employees but that the recomendation was to call the gun smith at the number she gave me.
I will call him and if any pertenant info pops up for any zastava parts or repair ill post back the info.
AGAIN THANK YOU FRED243 FOR THE LEAD IT MIGHT GET ME CLOSER
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