armoredman
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Well, I picked it up yesterday,
Compared it to the wife's WASR 10,
Much lighter, easier handling, the whole nine yards. The basic look of the rifle is SOLID, and very well constructed, the machining seemingly perfect.
So, this morning, after my son went off to school, I grabbed some assorted factory and handloaded ammo, and headed to the range. I fired about 200 rounds all told, just breaking it in a bit. Not one failure of any kind, except for me! I lined up on the first paper plate, and shot a group right under it - Huh? Heh, heh.... rear sight was on the 200 notch, and I test all new rifles at 50 yards...oops...
The rifle had been lightly cleaned by me on reciept, and showed it, as the first 10 rounds poured smoke out of the barrel/handguard area as goop burned off. No sweat. Each group got tighter, it seemed. Here is a paper plate group of Wolf original, the black box stuff I was lucky enough to get some of a few years ago. Nothing to write home about, but it is certainly minute-of-felon!
I interspersed shooting the vZ-58 with some 38 Spl work, also at 50 yards. Got a few nice groups, nothing real special, (and a bunch of shotgun patterns!), but I reused one .38 Spl target, (printer died, can't make new targets for a bit), shown here, so you know the "group" at the lower left has nothing to do with the vZ-58.
Now THAT'S not bad, for a 16" barreled carbine, from the bench without support.
And one more,
I am quite happy with this rifle, very nice, has only two drawbacks.
One, the same drawback anything remotely based on the AK has, the rock-the-mag in action. I would LOVE to see a vZ-58 with AR-15 type mag well/mag button arrangement.
Second -this puppy gets HOT! I mean, feel it through the handguard hot after 1.5 magazines. A differant handguard might be in order. i've been told it is more based on the German STG-44 than the AK, and that was a problem with the STG44, IIRC. I can work around it.
It has proven itself to me so far, and assumes primary rifle duty as of now...
And I am itching to get my Midway order in to start loading even more for it. There is the perfect load to get her to 1 MOA accuracy, I think.
Compared it to the wife's WASR 10,
Much lighter, easier handling, the whole nine yards. The basic look of the rifle is SOLID, and very well constructed, the machining seemingly perfect.
So, this morning, after my son went off to school, I grabbed some assorted factory and handloaded ammo, and headed to the range. I fired about 200 rounds all told, just breaking it in a bit. Not one failure of any kind, except for me! I lined up on the first paper plate, and shot a group right under it - Huh? Heh, heh.... rear sight was on the 200 notch, and I test all new rifles at 50 yards...oops...
The rifle had been lightly cleaned by me on reciept, and showed it, as the first 10 rounds poured smoke out of the barrel/handguard area as goop burned off. No sweat. Each group got tighter, it seemed. Here is a paper plate group of Wolf original, the black box stuff I was lucky enough to get some of a few years ago. Nothing to write home about, but it is certainly minute-of-felon!
I interspersed shooting the vZ-58 with some 38 Spl work, also at 50 yards. Got a few nice groups, nothing real special, (and a bunch of shotgun patterns!), but I reused one .38 Spl target, (printer died, can't make new targets for a bit), shown here, so you know the "group" at the lower left has nothing to do with the vZ-58.
Now THAT'S not bad, for a 16" barreled carbine, from the bench without support.
And one more,
I am quite happy with this rifle, very nice, has only two drawbacks.
One, the same drawback anything remotely based on the AK has, the rock-the-mag in action. I would LOVE to see a vZ-58 with AR-15 type mag well/mag button arrangement.
Second -this puppy gets HOT! I mean, feel it through the handguard hot after 1.5 magazines. A differant handguard might be in order. i've been told it is more based on the German STG-44 than the AK, and that was a problem with the STG44, IIRC. I can work around it.
It has proven itself to me so far, and assumes primary rifle duty as of now...
And I am itching to get my Midway order in to start loading even more for it. There is the perfect load to get her to 1 MOA accuracy, I think.