My Yugoslavian firearms

[sureshotbob]

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#1 Yugo mod.48 BO {Ejyptian Sneek} Mauser 7.92x57
#2 Yugo mod.24/47 mauser 7.92x57
#3 Yugo mod.59/66 SKS 7.62X39 w/grenade launcher

 

[A Castle]

Nice! Glad you didn't buy the car called the Yugo!!

 

[pharmer]

Here's a Yugo that ain't remotely related to the car. Joe

 

[Arik]

Nice!

I have the 24/47 and a TT. You need a Yugo TT

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[kwselke]

I have a 1980s vintage Interarms Mark X .308 Win. which was made by Zastava, the maker of the Yugo. The rifle is basically a modernized Mauser '98. I bought the rifled action and did the stock work and glass bedding myself. After you shoot the rifle, Yugo jokes no longer seem funny. I do remember seeing pictures of the plant after a NATO air raid. I assure you NATO was going after the arms making equipment, not all the little cheap cars that were collateral damage. On our current map the Zastava plant is in Serbia. Remington markets them in the US these days under their brand name.

 

[sureshotbob]

I also have a Charles Daly .22 lr bolt rifle made by Zastava next to my S&W mod.617 it is my favorite .22lr firearm.

 

[Texas Star]

I have a 1980s vintage Interarms Mark X .308 Win. which was made by Zastava, the maker of the Yugo. The rifle is basically a modernized Mauser '98. I bought the rifled action and did the stock work and glass bedding myself. After you shoot the rifle, Yugo jokes no longer seem funny. I do remember seeing pictures of the plant after a NATO air raid. I assure you NATO was going after the arms making equipment, not all the little cheap cars that were collateral damage. On our current map the Zastava plant is in Serbia. Remington markets them in the US these days under their brand name.

Why would NATO attack Zastava?! Was that something to do with the Bosnian unpleasanttness of the 1990's?

Surely you don't mean Allied air attacks of WWII, when the plant was probably in German hands?

I have a Serbian friend on the Net, but she probably doesn't know anything about that.

 

[cjw3]

I have a "Mod 98" marked Yugo rework with laminated stock. Using stripper clips as intended, it is surprising the volume of fire you can get out of one. That steel buttplate is murder from the bench when you carelessly let it slip over onto the point of your shoulder......ouch, big time.

On the inside of the handguard, someone wrote in ink the letters "KNOJ", along with the word "verajik". In researching this some years back, I got hold of a firearms writer in the former Yugoslavia and he indicated that KNOJ stands for Korpus norodne odbrane Jugoslavije (Corps of People's Protection of Yugoslavia). This later became the Police Force of Yugoslavia. He didn't have a clue what the "verajik" meant.

If you are interested in reading about the slice of hell that some of Yugoslavia became after it's breakup, I recommend the book My war gone by, I miss it so. These old guns were part of a lot of tragic history in that part of the world.

 

[Arik]

Why would NATO attack Zastava?! Was that something to do with the Bosnian unpleasanttness of the 1990's?

Surely you don't mean Allied air attacks of WWII, when the plant was probably in German hands?

I have a Serbian friend on the Net, but she probably doesn't know anything about that.

NATO bombed anything and everything Serbian during the Balkan wars, including factories.

E. European factories are not like American versions. Here GM makes cars and S&W makes guns. There a factory made pretty much everything from pencils to tractors to weapons. Most had a specialty but they all made everything. BTW the Yugo car is a copy of the Italian Fiat 500/Uno

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[kwselke]

Why would NATO attack Zastava?! Was that something to do with the Bosnian unpleasanttness of the 1990's?

Surely you don't mean Allied air attacks of WWII, when the plant was probably in German hands?

I have a Serbian friend on the Net, but she probably doesn't know anything about that.

It was the Slobidan Milochiavich (sp?) mess in the late 1990s. It was Serbians, Croatians, Bosnian, and Yugoslavians duking it out over religious and ethnic issues. NATO disagreed with the genocide that was apparently taking place. The US actually had a Stealth Fighter shot down in that war. The bombing was probably in the 1998-1999 area.

 

[Marshwheeling]

At Fleet Farm the other day a pistol caught my eye that looked like a Tokarev, but proved to be a 9mm Zastava. Despite its clunky lines, it was quite slim, with a single stack 9 round mag, and felt pretty good in my hand. The salesman said it was modeled on the Browning Hi-Power, but I saw no resemblance, and have talked to this guy enough to know that everything that comes out of his mouth needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

Even though I have a weak spot for cheap East Euro hardware, at $247, this one was not quite cheap enough. Not this month, anyway, at least not until I have all the CZs I want.

As for the Yugo, I thought that was essentially a Fiat 128.

 

[Arik]

It was the Slobidan Milochiavich (sp?) mess in the late 1990s. It was Serbians, Croatians, Bosnian, and Yugoslavians duking it out over religious and ethnic issues. NATO disagreed with the genocide that was apparently taking place. The US actually had a Stealth Fighter shot down in that war. The bombing was probably in the 1998-1999 area.

No such thing as Yugoslavians in the way that youre using it. Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, Slovanians, Montenegrans, Bosniaks, Albaniana were all Yugoslavs (Yugo means Southern. Slavs are a specific group of people)

The TT is a simplified, and beefed up copy of a Browning FN1903
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[kwselke]

No such thing as Yugoslavians in the way that youre using it. Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, Slovanians, Montenegrans, Bosniaks, Albaniana were all Yugoslavs (Yugo means Southern. Slavs are a specific group of people)

The TT is a simplified, and beefed up copy of a Browning FN1903
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I admit I know nothing about the war, the issues, or the place. I do know that Yugoslavian arms should not be compared to the cheap Yugo cars that were marketed in the US years ago.

 

[Cyrano]

Has anyone ever seen one of these? I bought the first one I've ever seen, at the San Antonio gun show. It's a Croatian pistol, PHP (Pevi Hrvatski Pistolj), MV, in 9mm P. Mechanically very like a Beretta 92. Apparently Croatia made about 5000 of them, including a short barrel version, in the 1990s.

 

[COL Jagdog]

The NATO bombings were in 1995.

Albania has never been part of Yugoslavia -- it is a totally separate country.

 

[Arik]

The NATO bombings were in 1995.

Albania has never been part of Yugoslavia -- it is a totally separate country.

Yea i ment Albanian, as in the group of people.

I see those PHPs every so often. PHP translates to First Croatian Pistol. Its a weird combo of Beretta, P38 and something else

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[BigBill]

The yugo mausers were machined on the german machines that manufactured the 98k's.

I have the yugo model 98 which is a real german 98k with the german markings scrubbed and the yugo crown put on it. The bolts are as smooth as silk in operation. Then there is the Model 24/47,model 24/52c, and m48. I picked up a brand new yugo TT in 7,62x25 tok but i haven't shot it yet.

Welcome to Samco Global Arms, Inc. has all the 8mm mausers listed for sale. Some have turn down bolts and some have straight bolt handles. Some were in really nice condition too. Some of the yugo m48's that are offered were in new condition on the net too.

 

[richeyo2]

1979 Yugo SKS (never fired)
Mint condition, no time to play w/yet

AK-47 Yugo Zastava underfolder (also NIB)
traded for the AK a few months back but haven't had time to fire. Thought about selling but can't decide.

Yugo M92 PAP
Fun little range toy

 

[canoeguy]

The Yugoslavian "Mystery Mauser" is a neat rifle, I think that is the one you referred to as your "Eygptian Sneak Rifle". Sanitized Mausers with nothing but a serial number, no markings to indicate country of origin. I had one years ago that I obtained by trading a handful of Mexican silver peso coins for it, used it for years as my boat gun.

A lot of these were captured by Israel during thier many wars with Egypt, along with Hakim and Rashid rifles. Advetised back in the day as "Never fired, dropped in the sand only once"...

Yugoslavians make some nice rifles, I've got two, a M24 straight bolt 8MM, and a .308 caliber M48.