Sunday, August 4, 2013

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.

Monday, June 3, 2013

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.