Valmets?

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first i wanna apologize if this is the wrong forum...

What are Valmets? i see them in the EE, and have no idea what kind of rifle they are, and why are they so expensive? they do look good, but what kind of background do they have?

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Look at it this way: Kalashnikovs (AK47) are the most popular guns on planet Earth, with tens of millions sold. In the US they are allowed and sell for ridiculously low prices, starting at maybe $300. But they're prohibited in Canada. However for some vague reason, having to do with some native people using it to hunt, a couple of old Valmet models were allowed.

This is the gun I want more than any other but very few are available. Especially in the 7.62 x 39 caliber, which is the main Kalashnikov round, only 10 are available in Canada (or so the guy claims).

So based on supply & demand the asking price is quite high, but if I could spare the kind of cash they're asking I might have bought it.
 
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Originally, all Valmets were listed as prohibited. After an owner successfully challenged the law, the Valmet Hunter and M78 were specifically listed as un-restricted.
 
Check this out: Finnish soldiers using the Valmet in combat. Incidentally this a really cool video on small unit tactics, assault rifle use and coordination.

It is an eduction video for Finnish recruits.

Valmet in combat
 
promac said:
Originally, all Valmets were listed as prohibited. After an owner successfully challenged the law, the Valmet Hunter and M78 were specifically listed as un-restricted.
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Can you support this? I heard that the Valmet was illegal until the libs realized that they had given 10,000 of them away to inuit/natives for northern defense. Then they realized "oops" and reclassified them as a sporting rifle.
 
Where can you buy one from? Anyone know if there are some for sale commercially? (that have not been shot to hell)
 
greentips said:
If there are 10,000 of them, these won't be demanding the money they are asking for now.
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I doubt very much that a 7.62 available primarily issued with corrosive ammo, to the high north, survived. We are talking a culture that leaves Gov't issued snow-mobiles on the ice when they run out of gas. Ice melts, ski-doo sinks. Gov't spends over $1m a year on replacing ski-doos.
 
As far as I know they aren't produced anymore (Valmet M78s)
and the price is VERY high because you don't see them often at all.
anyways...

I would love to build my own and register it properly. They supposedly shoot quite well.
 
there are two types of receivers. stamped and machined. the stamped have a flat back end. the machined are a tapered fit.

the come in .223, .222, .243, 7.62x39, 7.652x51 and 30.06.

the two types are the M78 (RPK) and the Hunter M88 (AK Sporter) almost all the hunters are machined, and the 7.62x51 M78's are machined.

hunter308b-500.jpg

Hunter, machined

Valmet_M78_7.62x39.jpg

stamped M78
 
The .223 Valmet will accept the Galil mag, however the angle is very slightly wrong. As a result, it does not feed properly. It tends to force the bullet back into the case. This possibly could result in a pressure spike. There is a warning about this on one of the Valmet forums in the US.
 
are there parts kits availlable to canadians to build a valmet hunter .... i can get a near complete receiver blank........
I would be doin the happy banana dance :dancingbanana: :dancingbanana: for days if could throw a .308 valmet hunter together
 
45ACPKING said:
are there parts kits availlable to canadians to build a valmet hunter .... i can get a near complete receiver blank........
I would be doin the happy banana dance :dancingbanana: :dancingbanana: for days if could throw a .308 valmet hunter together
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If you build it, it isn't a Valmet, it is an Ak47 variant and prohibited.
 
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