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Okay, blog time. So far I shot like 300 rounds out of my new rifle, so it's time for some toughts so far. But first some history. Some of you may say "it's some funky looking AK". The thing is - it's nothing like AK, and only part interchangable between the two are cartridges. Genesis of the round comes from soviet experiments just before WW2, but outbreak of the war stopped development and designers were diverted to more pressing work. Also, on eastern front Germans were using granddady of modern military rifles - Sturmgewehr 44 (earlier marked as Mp-43 to not annoy Hitler, but that's a whole different story), which has proven concept of smaller rifle cartrige. The experience gained during the first part of the World War 2 showed some deficiencies of the existing rifles, both manually operated and semi-automatic. Those rifles were too long and heavy, and fired too powerful cartridge that had excessive recoil and effective range of about 2000 meters, while most fights were at distances of no more than 600-800 meters. From this experience arose the idea of the more compact firearms that will fire cartridge of intermediate power, allowing for effective range of about 500-800 meters or so. Development was resumed in 1943 after russians got their hands on some captured samples, as well as lend-lease M1 carabines. First rifle designed around the cartridge was SKS (Simonov Self-loading Carbine). Prototypes were built as soon as early 1945 and were tested on the front, refined production versions were adopted by soviet army by 1949. Then in 1951 Avtomat Kalashnikova (AK) was adopted and soon russians began to cram them into hands of every soldier of every country behind Iron Courtain. But not in Czechoslovakia. Czechs have been developing their own rifle, and because they had quite big autonomy compared to rest of ComBloc countries, they were allowed to continue, thou they were forced to use 7,62x39 soviet cartidge. And so Vz.58 was born. From distance you can't tell it apart from AK, unless you know what you are looking for. Internally, it does not resemble Kalash at all. Gas system is completely different. AK uses long stroke gas piston, like in pic below. Hot gas created from ignition of gunpowder push piston-bolt unit backward, ejecting spent casing and loading new one. System used in Vz.58 does it a little different. Here gasses move only piston, which pushes bolt back. Less traveling mass means less intertia, less inertia means less recoil (characteristic upward recoil is caused mostly by it's bolt mass). Trigger mechanism? AK uses traditional hammer fired system (like 1911, all revolvers, etc.), VZ uses striker fired one (like Glock). More on firing mechanism types here. EVERYTHING is different. AK has either black oxide or paint, paint on VZ is baked on for extra durability. Banana shaped magazines? Not interchangable, AK has steel ones with slightly different locking system, VZ ones are made of aluminium alloy, and you can load the rifle from the top with stripper clips. *INTERMISSION* KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. *END OF INTERMISSION* VZ has nicer ergonomics, with better engineered selector lever, bolt holds open after the last round is fired and furniture shaped so it feels more comfy to use. Talking about furniture, it is not made of wood. It's so called beaver barf - wood-imprenated polymer. It's light, but it's drawback is that it does not disperse heat, so front handguards get hot preety quickly. Other features, even thou reciever is milled from solid block of steel, it's still lighter than stamped AK. Giant ejection port improves reliability, it's much much worse than legendary one of the AK. Let's talk about my rifle now. Thanks to having Czechs just on the other side of the border, I ordered some upgrades. First thing, pistol grip - original one was tiny (AK has simmilar problem, which makes me think that people in the 50s had tiny hands for whatever reason), and I replaced it with FAB Defence one. FAB makes good selection of polymer accesories for rifles, and they are quite affordable and good quality. I also changed magazine release lever to ambidextrious one, since original one is tiny, and kinda awkward to use unless you are left handed. Last thing I added is a giant muzzle brake (it was the cheapest one for VZ they had). It makes rilfe balance a bit worse, but damn, it makes the rifle shoot so soft, it now recoils simmilar to AR with standard A2 birdcage. Makes double taps and mag dumps really fun. If you are in the market for first semi automatic rifle/you are lefthanded/you are a canadian and AKs are banned by name for whatever reason/you want to enjoy cheap surplus ammunition, but don't want AK for whatever reason, I'd reccommend taking VZ58 into consideration. You can read more about VZ58 and it's versions available on US market here. Blog out.

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