WASR

Mag Pouches

VZ-58 (with AK47 magazines)

JNA Yugoslavian M64 or M70 AKM

This last one, the Yugo, was purchased from ebay user Samba9876-rs from Serbia. All I can say is he is one cool dude. I would buy from him over and over again! Thanks Dragan!

Hungarian "Tanker" triple 20 round AK47 magazine pouch

(?) Romanian PSL 54C pouch. That's what I was told this is. The magazines are for a different rifle though, these are polish grenade launching blank cartridge magazines. A steel piece has been welded to the front at the top and bottom, to insure blanks can only be inserted for the purpose of launching rifle grenades, rather than blowing yourself up. I'm going to convert them to shoot regular ammunition, by following directions in another site, allowing me to load 10 rounds of ammo(7.62x39mm). PSL magazines also hold 10 rounds but the caliber is larger 7.62x54r.

M57

Zastava M57

Based off the Russian TT-33 Tokarev designed by  Fedor Tokarev and influenced by John Brownings 1911.

Used in Yugoslavia as a service issued pistol. It uses the 7.62x25 cartridge, based on the German 7.62x25 Mauser cartridge. A necked pistol round.

The key difference from Russian versions is the 9 round magazine, the Yugo was built to accept rather than standard soviet 8 capacity.

Supposedly the safety was installed entourage to America by a third party rather than the Zastava plant. 

My pistol is very surplus-y and needed adjusting on the sights and the safety switch.

Ballester Molina & Leather Holster from Argentina

I picked up a vintage gun holster from seller bopayarg on Ebay not long ago, he runs the eBay store Argentina Vintage Collectables. 

http://stores.ebay.com/Argentina-Vintage-Collectibles?_trksid=p2047675.l2563

This article is dedicated to said holster.

This model was built for the 1911 or the Ballester Molina, from Argentina. And it's pretty unique.

Ballester Molina

Since I haven't seem any of the country's milsurp before I was a little surprised at the green leather.

But it seems fitting to think of a South American country using green web gear. 

Argentina has a mix of mountains, farmland with cattle prairie and jungle, so it seems like a win-win for the environment and resources of the time; this kit is pretty old, possibly from the WW2 era or earlier.

Further searches revealed green leather slings for their Mauser rifles and ammo pouches to match. Brown leather seems more rare actually.

This holster was manufactured with a dual magazine pouch above the pistol, but I have seen stand alone double mag pouches as well as separate pistol holsters, also in green leather, for sale online.

Because of the top/bottom setup, the pistol hangs a bit lower on the hip-almost on the side of the leg. This is a similar a similar setup to the modern Bianchi web belt drop down extender for the M9/1911 holster.

There is even two small d rings on the back of the pistol holster to accommodate a leather strap that would secure the holster to your leg, though my example did not come with said leather strap.

All in all I am happy with this unique kit and the price was very reasonable. I haven't attempted to clean up the leather at all in these photos, and it goes with my weathered 1911 nicely.

Shipping did take a while, but that isn't too bad considering this hobby, the wait builds up and imagination, once the item is in the collectors hands that feeling of interest in the unknown is appeased and its time to move on to the next vintage surplus collectible...

More great stuff from bopayarg here:

http://shop.mobileweb.ebay.com/searchresults?cmd=SREF&pg=7&back=1&kw=seller:bopayarg&fads=All&sort=PricePlusShippingHighest&sellerId=bopayarg

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