Fun guns but, as a reloaded who rakes up brass at the local range I help maintain, I hated those things. Very hard on the brass. At least the PTRs have the decency to mark the cases for me, thanks to the chamber fluting.

It's the cheap ARs made by you-know-who, that eat field gauges like candy, that make PTR91s look easy on brass by comparison. Visually can see the brass ahead of the case head bulging. PTR brass can at least be reloaded, it will just have poor life. These cases can't even be fed into a sizing die. Now I don't dislike PTRs, like I used to, anymore.

Personally, I'd leave it as is and get a sling for it. Maybee add a red dot.

So far the worst gun Iv shot as far as damaging brass was the hakim.

Slapped one of the wide, A3 handguards on mine and sourced an original bipod for it. Great combo, aesthetically and functionally.

The local retail salvage store here had tons of aluminum and steel H&K G3 magazines for just $5 each! These work in the CETME but the 5-round steel magazines pop loose on the first shot. Not so with the H&K 5-round magazines.

Ya I don’t have trouble finding mags for it. It came with 4 still in the plastic bag.

I'd leave it as is honestly. Then again I do like the idea of the m lok hand guard on it though what would you put on it? It would make a decent fighting rifle but at least on a certain brand of rebuilt cetme c rifles that ptr helped on they aren't as accurate at range.

Some years ago, I traded a 1987 Nissan Centra for a Century Arms Centurion 99 (basically "the poor man's HK91). Those were the days when you could get 20-round G3 mags through Cheaper Than Dirt (the paperback catalog) for $3 or $5 dollars. Aluminum or steel.