VZ-58s and more...FAQs are Post 1

[Deckard]

 

[palinak]

 

[TheWharGoul]

heh, You guys make me want one of these! hahaha.. But that blue finish and that wood, gak! Haha, it will have to be changed once I get it.

 

[mopar guy]

heh, You guys make me want one of these! hahaha.. But that blue finish and that wood, gak! Haha, it will have to be changed once I get it.

That's what I did, just finished the other night. The only reason why this is better than all the AK's out there..... drum roll please.....

I CAN SHOOT IT!

PS - Why isn't this a sticky?

Mopar Guy

 

[palinak]

 

[Smoothbore]

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Hey, is that Sgt. Zeke Anderson aka actor Terence Knox of "Tour of Duty" fame with a VZ58?

 

[ilovepotatos]

I have now read the entire thread. That took me a friggin' long time.
In any case, I have a few questions, pertaining to this picture!

What are the tactical advantages of the helmet on the far right? How come you never see units equipped with them, and more of the "Spectra Helmet" style gear?

They wore helmets like this in a video game called Metal Gear Solid, but I never understood the advantages and disadvantages. Is that a radio piece or something? Is it an "extended ear" system for amplifying quiet sounds? Help!

 

[palinak]

 

[Deckard]

 

[timelord]

 

[Dr.Lector]

This is for the wankas who say the VZ is ugly.

Now that is an AK wannabee.

Getting closer...

Some parts from...?
http://www.civilwar.de/galerie/Bilder/drag_mag.jpg
http://www.rusmilitary.com/images/svds_parts.jpg

I wasn’t getting closer, I was out in the sticks with my guessing, but thanks for the credit. I should have recognized the pattern of the mag. I could blame the light, which makes hard to approximate the width of the mag, but I don’t. I’m getting rusty.

Anyway, it’s hard to match a bolt carrier (with a given length of the piston rod) with a barrel that has the gas block at another position.
In the 90’s there was a fashion pattern in US, something like “let’s build an AK from pieces”. And that is happening when they don’t match. (Today they play the social game “let’s build an AK104 from a Saiga”. I still have to see some results)

I don’t consider that pic a “bubba” job. Everybody with his own.
It would be interesting to see what he used and from where, since AK can’t interchange almost nothing with Dragunov, not even with Romanian replica of Dragunov (civilian version sold in US as Romak 3), whose action is basically an AK on steroids.

Thanks for the links.
PS Nice banana. The middle fingers can be a little bigger, though.

 

[Dr.Lector]

There was a club competition in CZ.
Some of you young bucks with fast computers and everything, stop monkeying around and see if you can find some 58 pics in this:

h ttp://www.mattburkett.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=119&Itemid=281

Steal the friggin pics (he has too many anyway) and post them in here.

 

[palinak]

I have over 40 unseen pics to keep this thread up top

 

[Deckard]

There was a club competition in CZ.
Some of you young bucks with fast computers and everything, stop monkeying around and see if you can find some 58 pics in this:

h ttp://www.mattburkett.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=119&Itemid=281

Steal the friggin pics (he has too many anyway) and post them in here.

prt scr button. The ugly AK is homemade Chechen. Looks x54, select fire. Some AK parts, huge suppressor. The Chechens made lots of junk...

 

[palinak]

 

[Dr.Lector]

She's gonna check his gun too

 

[palinak]

 

[ilovepotatos]

Some help with my question on page 146?

 

[david doyle]

Hey has anyone had the barrel off a cz/vz? thread info?

 

[Dr.Lector]

I wish I could help, but I know nothing about helmets either czech or others.



Regarding the barrel thread, I heard that ONLY SOME of the barrels from the 58's in Canada are threaded.