I noticed that Romanian milsurps are not very common here on CGN, nor in Canada, as opposed to the US, where these cheap but well made guns can ve found in abundance. Anyways, here's a glipse at my humble collection of Romanian milsurps. It took me a few good years of searching to get all these, including the few uniforms, holsters, bayonettes and even ammo.
The rifles are: Vz24(reffered to by the Romanians as "ZB"), one reblued and non matching; the other is all original, including the finish. Romanian serials start with YR#### or PR###. The top of receiver is scrubbed off(it used to have the Royal Romanian Crest/ or Michael's Cross, untill refurbed by the Communists after WW2 and abdication of the King); Romanian/Czech acceptance marks all over. Both are pre WW2, around 1938-1939. The Mosin M-44, is marked RPR(Republica Populara Romania, Peoples Republic of Romania) dated 1954, with an arrowhead in a triangle. Proof markings are quite similar to the Soviet proof of Izhevsk. As opossed to the Romanian contract Vz24s(produced by Brno in Czekoslovakia), the Mosin is produced at the Cugir factory in southern Transylvania. This is the only Romanian M-44 I have ever seen in Canada, and I looked hard...(again, tons of these in the USA).
The handguns: Styer Hahn Md.1912(Royal Crest has been scrubbed off by the Communists, it is dated 1913, it is also the first semi outo handgun to enter mass service with Romania); Beretta 1934(marked "9mm Scurt", barrel was changed because I don't have a prohib licence...yes I know...
); M-74 "Carpati"(not a Hungarian PA-63 as identified by the nice people at CFC
), a Romanian copy of the Walther PPK, with an aluminium frame and s**tty trigger pull, it is very nice and light however; these are still in limited service with the Romanian Police/Army today, slowly being replaced by the locally produced PISTOL MD 95 aka "IWI 941 Jericho"
and Glock 17s. These were originally produced in 7.65mm, but mine is 9mm short like the US ones. The next one in line is a Browning 1922, the serial dates it to the mid 30s, not all matching and not in the best condition either. The last one is a Tokarev, marked "Exercitiu"(Exercise=Practice, in Romanian), used to train officers and armour crews. This is quite an odd piece, since it closelly resembles a WW2 Russian example, but used by the Romanians; Romanian produced models have the finer/smaller slide grooves, just like the post war Hungarian or Yugo.I wasn't able to get any more info on this.
I know some of these are not in the best condition, but they were all I could find on this subject, during all these years of collecting.
The rifles are: Vz24(reffered to by the Romanians as "ZB"), one reblued and non matching; the other is all original, including the finish. Romanian serials start with YR#### or PR###. The top of receiver is scrubbed off(it used to have the Royal Romanian Crest/ or Michael's Cross, untill refurbed by the Communists after WW2 and abdication of the King); Romanian/Czech acceptance marks all over. Both are pre WW2, around 1938-1939. The Mosin M-44, is marked RPR(Republica Populara Romania, Peoples Republic of Romania) dated 1954, with an arrowhead in a triangle. Proof markings are quite similar to the Soviet proof of Izhevsk. As opossed to the Romanian contract Vz24s(produced by Brno in Czekoslovakia), the Mosin is produced at the Cugir factory in southern Transylvania. This is the only Romanian M-44 I have ever seen in Canada, and I looked hard...(again, tons of these in the USA).
The handguns: Styer Hahn Md.1912(Royal Crest has been scrubbed off by the Communists, it is dated 1913, it is also the first semi outo handgun to enter mass service with Romania); Beretta 1934(marked "9mm Scurt", barrel was changed because I don't have a prohib licence...yes I know...
); M-74 "Carpati"(not a Hungarian PA-63 as identified by the nice people at CFC), a Romanian copy of the Walther PPK, with an aluminium frame and s**tty trigger pull, it is very nice and light however; these are still in limited service with the Romanian Police/Army today, slowly being replaced by the locally produced PISTOL MD 95 aka "IWI 941 Jericho" and Glock 17s. These were originally produced in 7.65mm, but mine is 9mm short like the US ones. The next one in line is a Browning 1922, the serial dates it to the mid 30s, not all matching and not in the best condition either. The last one is a Tokarev, marked "Exercitiu"(Exercise=Practice, in Romanian), used to train officers and armour crews. This is quite an odd piece, since it closelly resembles a WW2 Russian example, but used by the Romanians; Romanian produced models have the finer/smaller slide grooves, just like the post war Hungarian or Yugo.I wasn't able to get any more info on this.I know some of these are not in the best condition, but they were all I could find on this subject, during all these years of collecting.
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