Inspired by PermskiiOMON, some of my weapons pics...

[Ezra Coli]

PermskiiOMON has the best collection of weapons and gear, and his photos have inspired me for years. So I figured I'd share a few of my own. These are by no means as sweeping and comprehensive as his are, but they are all military related so here it goes.

Romanian AK-74 posing as a Russian...


Russian AK-103K built on a SAIGA base, posed on a historically incorrect background (sorry, I already had the Soviet era props set up so I used them)


The same rifle posed on NATO gear


AR-15...


A lousy photo...




Chinese Drag posing as a Russian...




Romanian PSL...


Simonovs...








SVT-40...




Czech VZ-52s...




(edited to add this disclaimer: The Kalashnikovs pictured in this post do not have the ability to accept a bayonet in compliance with sec. 922r of the US code. The bayonet is placed on the rifles for photo purposes only and do not latch. Bayonet lugs are not prersent on the rifles.)

[Kingpin]

Coooool! :)

[shuravee]

Great !!!

[Loco]

I´ve never seen a Chopo(Cetme) like yours, with a wooden grip, not to mention the bipod and such a big scope, the muzzle break is different too of the used here in Spain time ago. Btw, it´s beauty.
Edited: I miss the tap of the cleaning tube.

[Truthsayer]

Beautifull rifles!

[Jackel]

Great Pics? Which do you like better, the NDM-86 or the Romanian PJC?

Can you still buy the NDM-86? If so where?

[UkrainianAmerican]

Gangsta pics. woot

[RomanS]

WOW EZRA !
they are gorgeous!

what do you mean your collection is not as unique, look at yours man.

BEAUTIFUL!

[MolliG]

http://headsbunker.com/Gallery_HTML/vz52/000vz521957_5.jpg
*Drool*

Nice photos! :)

[RSK]

Sick pics!

[ßå$tĮТHÏ¿ð]

Loving the pics...damn i wish i could get my hands on a CETME :|

[Ezra Coli]

Great Pics? Which do you like better, the NDM-86 or the Romanian PJC?

Can you still buy the NDM-86? If so where?

I like them both, they are both extremely accuratsemauto. The NDM-86 is in .308 caliber (7.62x51 NATO) and there are 1000 of them out there made for the US market. CDNN Investments in Abilene Texas has a few left.

The NDM is probably the most accurate due to the simple fact that there is better quality ammo available (Match grade stuff). But the PSL is nice too since it is an AK on steroids (the NDM is a Drag, with op rod, not a gas piston like the AK or PSL). Suprisingly, with light bullets (148 grain), it is as accurate as the NDM. There just isn't much in terms of quality light ball or match grade light ball in 7.62x54r.

[Ezra Coli]

WOW EZRA !
they are gorgeous!

what do you mean your collection is not as unique, look at yours man.

BEAUTIFUL!

Yeah, but YOU have the nice Russian stuff! I'd love to have a Krinkov, but I can't justify the price tag right now. ;)

[anonymous individual]

MORE!!! woot

[Otsoa]

Loving the pics...damn i wish i could get my hands on a CETME :|

You and me both. Since I don't have prohib status all I'll be able to get are spanish mausers :(

[LAPD 85]

Purty

[Ezra Coli]

Had to remove them, you guys are sucking up all my bandwidth! I need a free picture host and will repost them

Glad you all enjoy.

[Uninen]

Is that Albanian SKS really made in Albania or just a Chinese variant? Cause i have not heard of Albanians making these weapons before, but what i know is that they have bought plenty of them from China.....

[Saranof]

Sexy :D

[Ezra Coli]

Is that Albanian SKS really made in Albania or just a Chinese variant? Cause i have not heard of Albanians making these weapons before, but what i know is that they have bought plenty of them from China.....

Yes, they are Albanian made. No one knew much about them until a couple of years ago when they were imported to the US. That one was made in 1978, and they have a lot of unique characteristics. I've heard there were very few, only two large shipments came in and are all bought up now, as opposed to the Yugos of which there are millions upon millions coming in (so it seems).

Here is a review that has a brief history of the Albanian SKS...
http://www.cruffler.com/Features/APR-02/review-April-02.html :D

[MEGR]

Loving the pics...damn i wish i could get my hands on a CETME :|

Hey.. I'm not sure if you live in the states, but I got a CETME (the same in the pic) for about 390 with 40 rounds of .308 winchester and cleaning material.. Cetme is a great price for a good gun.

[Uninen]

Ezra Coli,

Ok.. thanks.. :)

[joshfox0]

:D beautiful. you have a wonderous collection of weapons there, if i had but 1/8th of those weapons i would be a happy man. but i dont :( lol. the chinease dragnov is prety damn nice ot im a fan of all the AK series really but the dragnov is real pretty.

[tiger-unit]

ur ballin buddy.

[MVSpartan117]

WOW!!!! woot


Great pics!

[anonymous individual]

Nice!

[tiger-unit]

hey, wut kinda of AK is that after the polish pmkms ?, looks plastic.

[Spleen]

Nice pictures!

Out of curiosity, isn't the type of bayonet on the Albanian SKS-job banned by the Geneva Convention or some other international agreement? That's what they told us when I trained to give tour's of a historic fort here in Canada years ago. It has a triangular blade, right?

[Ezra Coli]

Nice pictures!

Out of curiosity, isn't the type of bayonet on the Albanian SKS-job banned by the Geneva Convention or some other international agreement? That's what they told us when I trained to give tour's of a historic fort here in Canada years ago. It has a triangular blade, right?

I don't know. Its a triangular bayonet like the Russian Mosin Nagants. Screwdriver point. I can't imagine why they would ban them, they seem much more humane than the blunt slabs of dull steel of the SKS blade bayonets. Besides, I don't think Albania signed anything, though I could be worng.

Many other nations have used a spike bayonet on various guns too, including China, Romania, Austria, Italy, Russia and Hungary.

[Spleen]

"With the design of offset triangular blade and socket established, the form of the bayonet remained almost unchanged for the next 150 years. The triangular cross-sectional blade has now been internationally banned, since a triangular wound is notoriously difficult to suture."

Not a site of any repute, but at least someone else seems to believe a similar story to what I heard.

Here's the full link:
http://footguards.tripod.com/01ABOUT/01_weapons/01_WpBayonet.htm

And another one which mentions the same idea:
http://www.bydand.com/arms.htm

"...21-inch triangular blade bayonet (the sort currently banned by the Geneva Convention), weighing 1.5 pounds..."

[Spleen]

And Albania did sign the Geneva Convention as near as I can tell.

http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/texts/doc_geneva_con_sp.html

[TALOS]

damn, sweet guns Ezra! :D
I used to have an Indian a1 (FN FAL variant) Unfortunately they are prohibited here. Now I only have a tokarev TT 58 pistol and a lee enfield rifle.

[Ballistic]

Thanks heaps for posthing theses, top quality stuff !! woot

[Otsoa]

Loving the pics...damn i wish i could get my hands on a CETME :|

Hey.. I'm not sure if you live in the states, but I got a CETME (the same in the pic) for about 390 with 40 rounds of .308 winchester and cleaning material.. Cetme is a great price for a good gun.

iirc Bastard Child, like myself live in Canada, a place that has deemed the Hk G3 as well as the CETME to be prohibited to own unless you are grandfathered which means that you must have had a gun of that prohib class when they became prohibited in order to own or purchase more. The gun laws up here are really screwed up, in fact many of us gun owners up here have a rough saying that when you look at the Canadian gun laws, don't bother using any sense in trying to understand them

[TALOS]

Loving the pics...damn i wish i could get my hands on a CETME :|

Hey.. I'm not sure if you live in the states, but I got a CETME (the same in the pic) for about 390 with 40 rounds of .308 winchester and cleaning material.. Cetme is a great price for a good gun.

iirc Bastard Child, like myself live in Canada, a place that has deemed the Hk G3 as well as the CETME to be prohibited to own unless you are grandfathered which means that you must have had a gun of that prohib class when they became prohibited in order to own or purchase more. The gun laws up here are really screwed up, in fact many of us gun owners up here have a rough saying that when you look at the Canadian gun laws, don't bother using any sense in trying to understand them
HAHA, like the gun registration that has cost many more dollars than was promised and wont do anything to stop crime at all, the biggest cause of gun related deaths.

[usa320]

AK-103 is cool...

It looks alot more modern than the wooden AK's. Im guessing its lighter too.

[Ezra Coli]

Yes, the 103 is a little bit lighter. Its also very handy with a 14.5" barrel and a muzzle brake to bring it out to the minimum 16" limit with our US regs. Its actually my favorite rifle of them all, and because its built out of a SAIGA "sporting" carbine, it is built to commercial tolerances (very tight) and not military tolerances (a little more slop and play). This equals more accuracy because the bolt locks up tighter, but somewhat negates the AK's legendary reliability which is in part due to the large tolerances.

The design beauty of the AK is brilliant. Its so simple that the most ungainly garage gunsmith can build one from parts with a very nominal investment in tools. The Polish PMKMS, and the two Hungarian AKs above were all built by me, in my garage, with homemade tools and a parts kit. the Polish rifle's and AMD-65's receivers are both home made. Its a fun hobby, and I will enjoy it while I can since laws are still favorable. Here's what a homemade receiver looks like during buildi8ng...

[Otsoa]

HAHA, like the gun registration that has cost many more dollars than was promised and wont do anything to stop crime at all, the biggest cause of gun related deaths.

If you did a poll on gun owners who support the registry TALOS, you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who supports it.

[TALOS]

HAHA, like the gun registration that has cost many more dollars than was promised and wont do anything to stop crime at all, the biggest cause of gun related deaths.

If you did a poll on gun owners who support the registry TALOS, you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who supports it.
hard pressed? damn, it would be impossible, you'd stand a better chance of winning the lotto. Its a retarded registry and wont do what the anti gunners promised, and that is save lives.

[Uninen]

:cantbeli: / rofl / :roll:

Ok,

Home grown variants.. its almost like in Pakistans tribal areas.. they also build AK:s in their "garages"... or in whatever.......

[mustamato]

http://headsbunker.com/Gallery_HTML/AKs/rec3.jpg
How thick (or gauge maybe you say over there) is that steel?

[Ezra Coli]

http://headsbunker.com/Gallery_HTML/AKs/rec3.jpg
How thick (or gauge maybe you say over there) is that steel?

Its .055" 4140 steel, ever so slightly thicker than the Russian steel. I harden the pivot pin holes and ejector, and they run like a charm. The blanks come from www.acearms.com. The receiver on the AK takes very little stress, mostly shear forces, all of the pressure is handled by the chamber, barrel and gas system, which of course are factory made by whatever arsenal built the original AK kit.

The AMD-63 and 65 kits are made by FEG in Hungary and are some of the nicest AKs I've ever seen, almost no tooling marks and very well made. The PMKMS is a Radom Arsenal rifle I believe, it only has the "oval 11" mark of Poland.

A home build AK carrie a premium over most of the commercially available AKMs in the US, especially the Romanians. The Romies are nice but they don't compare to a Hungarian, Bulgarian or Polish kit-build.

FYI, the rifles are shipped to the US complete except the receiver, that is either purchased or made, then the rifle is built on that receiver either traditionally with rivets or with screws. I use the rivets because I'm interested in as historically accurate rifles as I can get. The AMD-63 and AMD-65 are perhaps the funkiest looking AKMs out there, quite ugly actually, but historically proper.

I'm currently working on a traditional wood stock Soviet style AKM and a Bulgarian AK-74, those will be done later this year.


Uninen, yeah, the Pakistanis and Afghanis are actually quite skilled at making rifles and hacking together varinants yet unseen. I don't make up my own varinats though, they are all as-issued rifles, except for the receivers, 3 parts of the fire control group and the gas piston, all US made duplicates to comply with regulations.