Anyone Have Any Russian or "ComBlock" Firearms to Share?

[les.b]

1, 2. Croatian PHP M7. Don't know whether this qualifies for a ComBlock weapon. There's a short barrreled version, too. Mechanism is a lot llike a Beretta 92. This one thought it was a PPSh-41 so I got rid of it.

3. Two Shanxi copies of the broomhandle in 45 ACP. The one with the stock was actually made in 1930 under the Chang Kai Shek regieme, but was sold to the US in the 1980s by the ChiComs. The other one I think is a replica made by the ChiComs to augment the number of pistols they sold to us in the 1980s.

4, 5. CZ 52 with issue holster. These were mostly rebuilt but the rebuilds looked like new when they sold them in the 1980s. This one has a bad habit: if you push the safety up to drop the hammer, a chambered round will fire.

Cyrano:

Those are some more beauties that we don't often see! The Broomhandles especially are pretty scarce. The Chi Com provenance gives them a certain cachet, at least for those of us fascinated by the weapons of the formrer (and in certain cases, still) communist countries.

Thanks for posting!

Best Regards, Les

 

[les.b]

I don't have them anymore, but at one time I had...

Three Chinese Type 56 Mosin-Nagants
Two Yugo SKS's
Russian Nagant Revolver
CZ-83
Bulgarian Makarov

I never fired the Mosin's or the Nagant Revolver...or one of the SKS's now that I think of it.

They were all fun to have for the time I had them though.

Yes, they were and are fun guns. I think that the history behind these relics is half of the fun. Thanks for dropping by and checking out the thread.

Best Regards, Les

 

[Arik]

Here is a sampling.... I have a few extras here and there. I have a Radom (Polish) 22 Trainer that mimics a MN M38. A CZ and Nagant pistol that didn't make the picture.

bob

I'll take the Dragonov! Thanks

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[les.b]

Only one I have. Date is 1941.


Worse SA & DA I have ever shot!

Chief:

I agree about the trigger pull, but such a unique revolver!! A revolver that could actuall have a sound suppressor attached, since the cartridge seals against the barrel. And while they were abundant, you couldn't neat the prices!

Best Regards, Les

 

[les.b]

Pre ban norinco under folder

HARDWARE:

Those were the days, when the Norincos and PolyTecs were Coming in back in the 80s, and we were getting our first glimpses of the firearms from behind the "iron Curtain", and the "Bamboo Curtain"!!!

Thanks for sharing!

Best Regards, Les

 

[les.b]

Here's another one of my combloc long guns. You don't see these polish M44's that often. This was acutally my first C&R firearm and a gift from my wife a long time ago. I don't shoot it much but it'll be one of the last I let go of.

Richard:

You are right, the Polish is one of the harder to find variations of this fine carbine, and yours is a beauty. Thanks for sharing.

Best Regards, Les

 

[les.b]

Arguably the finest 9X18 Combloc pistol ever made, the CZ82.



This 1936 hex receiver Tula made Mosin Nagant m91/30. Pretty decent shooter but doesn't compare to my Mausers.

sheepdawg:

I have one of the CZ82s also, and I too think it may represent the pinnacle of development for this cartridge. I don't really carry mine, but I would not feel undergunned if I were to do so, the Czechs are some of the worlds top firearms designers, and it shows in this pistol. Thanks for sharing!

Best Regards, Les

 

[les.b]

I had owned a lot back about 10 years ago. I got into a more practical mind set back then and figured that if I can't afford to stock up on all the calibers I have then I'd let the surplus go. At that time 7.62 Tokarev ammo had stated to dry up. It went from $125 for a crate to something like $400. 9x18 also started disappearing. So I sold most of the surplus I had.

3 Older Polish M48 Toks with the small safety added. Not the giant monstrosity the add today. The importer stamp was small and up front. Imported by TGI KNOX TN.

3 Makarovs. One Russian and 2 Bulgarian.

Polish P64

SR41. Remember those? They came out in late 90s/early 2000. They were the first attempt at making a legal PPSH41. It was semi auto and had a barrel extention to meet the required 16 inches. It was redesigned and slapped together by alcoholic drug addicted monkeys. It would work sometimes. And the barrel extention was literally a Home Depot metal pipe welded on.

Mosin Nagant revolver

A lot of Mosins

Probably forgetting some. What I should have done is keep one and have some ammo on hand. Of course it did suply me with a lot of stuff I wanted. I still have a few mosins left. They were the hardest sell. Do I sell the common stuff and keep the rare which I know I won't shoot or sell the rare and shoot the common stuff. I ended up selling the rare and unique pieces and kept 3 that are middle of the road. Not your typical 91 or 91/30 but also nothing super rare.

Also have a Russian Vepr 5.45 AK.

One of the ones I kept. M91 Fin captured with a new Fin barrel

Another one. Bad pic but it's a Fin M39 mint condition

That all the pics I have on my phone.

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Arik:

I think you kept a great rifle. The Finn modified Mosins are some of the finest shooting of the breed. I have a model 39 made in 1970, mint in every respect that I will post later. I think that the receiver and bolt and a few other parts are the only thing the Finns kept. New stocks, sights, new barrel with perfect rifling and remachined the receiver. Anyway, shoots great, and kept the robustness of the breed.

Thanks for sharing....

Best Regards, Les

 

[les.b]

This CZ 52 was my, first gun:

Actually, I got this CZ 50 at the same time, but in shot the 52 first:

This FEG came along more recently:

Marshwheeling:

Thanks for sharing with us... I love the Czech guns. The little CZ 50 is a real relic of the "Cold War". The CZ 52 is a unique and really cool handgun capable of handling really hot loads of the Tokarev cartridge.

Best Regards, Les

 

[Warren Sear]

Here are some wooden AK toys I made for some friends' kids. Do they count?

 

[les.b]

A mint 1943 Tula Mosin Nagant

HOUSTON RICK:

That's a really nice example of the Mosin. They are a robust and useful rifle for their time. They are still pretty amazing firearms capable of great accuracy, and shooting a cartridge that has survived for 125 years or so.

Best Regards, Les

 

[Bob R]

I'll take the Dragonov! Thanks

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Sort of....it is a Tiger (TIGR) dressed up in Drag wood, I have been trying for years to get a flash suppressor for it but those things are not only rare they are quite spendy. I also have a black polymer stock set for it somewhere in the man cave.

The Tiger carbine was imported back in the 90s. Other than the barrel it is all Dragunov. Somewhere around here I still have a case (2 spam cans) of 7N1 ammo.

bob

 

[les.b]

This is my Bulgarian Makarov, and CHI-COM Model 54 Tokarev

John:

Nice firearms. I'm tickled to see that I'm not the only Smith guy to have succumbed to the lure of the "Cold War" weapons.

Thanks for sharing,

Best Regards, Les

 

[les.b]

I have a CZ52 that was one of my first purchases using my C&R FFL when I first got it over 15 years ago.

I also have a very nice Russian SKS that I just don't happen to have a picture of. 1954 Tula

Faulkner:

Nice! I also have one of these unique handguns. I understand that they are capable of handling hotter ammo than the Tokarev in the same caliber. Thanks for sharing.

Best Regards, Les

 

[Arik]

Faulkner:

Nice! I also have one of these unique handguns. I understand that they are capable of handling hotter ammo than the Tokarev in the same caliber. Thanks for sharing.

Best Tegards, Les

That's one of those things that's disputed on the Internet constantly. There is proof both ways. Only the designers of the CZ know, since it came out after the Tok

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[les.b]

Here is a picture from the trip in Dresden, with me in the middle. The military personnel are from the Soviet Air Force. I indicated to them that I wanted to take a picture of them, and they motioned for me to be in the picture also. My German friend took the picture. I was almost certainly the first American that any of them had seen, and they were looking at me like I was from another planet. All of them were exceptionally friendly.

Note the Trabant cars in the background.

Warren:

That is a great photo, and a testimony to the curiosity of both sides about the other. I found something similar on my visits to Russia. Here is a photo that I've posted before of me with a Russian policeman in Moscow, back in May, 1998. It fits in with this thread because I'm holding one of the little AKSU-74s, which was pretty ubiquitous among the officers at the time:



The folks that I met there were curious about Americans, and wanted to show their hospitality at every occasion.

Best Regards, Les

 

[Warren Sear]

Here is my one and only CZ75, purchased in 1986. I got the Ross (made in South Africa, and not importable due to ill-advised American boycott) holster in Vienna, Austria, of all places.

 

[Warren Sear]

One more...

 

[les.b]

Here is a sampling.... I have a few extras here and there. I have a Radom (Polish) 22 Trainer that mimics a MN M38. A CZ and Nagant pistol that didn't make the picture.

bob

Bob:

Great firearms. I'm with Arik, that Tiger (Тигр in Russian) is super. They are going for in the neighborhood of $4,000.00 today, if you can find one. There weren't many that made it into the country. Nice!!!

Best Regards, Les

 

[Warren Sear]

There are Soviet M44's in circulation, but one does not come across an M38 often. These were manufactured without a bayonet.

It doesn't show well in the close-up, but this one was made in 1943.