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Mantis
PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:41 pm 
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I just picked up a new toy for the gun safe....a Czech made VZ-58L rifle. It looks quite similar to the AK-47 but it's a completely different design and it is classified as non-restricted so anyone with a PAL can own one. It fires the East Block 7.62x39mm round (same as the AK and the SKS). It is the semi-auto only civilian version of the standard Czech military rifle.

Check it out here: http://www.marstar.ca/gf-VZ-58L/index.shtm

I fired one on the range down at Silverdale the other weekend and I just had to have one. Marstar has been sold out for a while but Al Simmons in Hamilton has a few so I grabbed one.
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Here's a photo of my new rifle. This is a hell of a good deal. For $675, you get the rifle, 4 30rd (pegged to 5 rd) mags, the mag pouch, cleaning kit, bayonet and scabbard.

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I saw one of those last week on the rack at GMK Armoury. It looks like a fun rifle!

A friend of mine bought a VZ58 and installed a synthetic stock, muzzle brake and a short scope. This is his deer rifle for this season.

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Nice .... congrats with your new toy ...

Hey bring it over to the club sometime let me feel 'er .... lol...
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sniper wrote:
Nice .... congrats with your new toy ...

Hey bring it over to the club sometime let me feel 'er .... lol...


Thanks! I'm going to bring it this Wednesday for rifle night. :lol: If you're there, you can try her out.
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Pardon me for asking, but how is it not a Restricted rifle? just wondering.

Looks sweet though :wink:

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congrats on your new Rifle.. 8) You'll have alot of fun with that one..
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i thot the 58 was short barreled and restricted and the 858 was the longer barreled non-restricted version?

nice ither way, that beast is on my wish list, in non-res format of course!
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DannyDoo wrote:
Pardon me for asking, but how is it not a Restricted rifle? just wondering.

Looks sweet though :wink:


The length of the barrel - it's above the threshold for semi-automatic centrefires to be considered restricted.
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i thot the 58 was short barreled and restricted and the 858 was the longer barreled non-restricted version?

nice ither way, that beast is on my wish list, in non-res format of course!


That's the weird thing. Marstar calls the non-restricted one a VZ58L whereas it's actually stamped VZ-858.
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maybe its a mistake on there website? everything i've read on CGN says 58= restricted and 858= non-restricted, the only difference being barrel length.
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It would be alot more fun if it wasn't Pegged for 5-Rounds. :x Silly, just to own one for that sake. I have a friend who had his Collectors Permit who had to get rid of all of his GUNS because of the New LAWZ of Canada. Maybe I should move to the USA, and live off of my Fathers Estate coin. O-Wait, they also have some non-sense concerning these types of Rifles also, don't they :?: Crap, he had an AK-47 mounted to his BedRoom Floor back in those Dayz

Nice Gun Though...

Krazy Mike... :idea:

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maybe its a mistake on there website? everything i've read on CGN says 58= restricted and 858= non-restricted, the only difference being barrel length.


Yeah, it's weird. For some reason, they refer to the VZ-858 as the VZ-58L. I've actually heard others calling it that too although it actually is, as you said, the VZ-858.
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Krazy Mike wrote:
It would be alot more fun if it wasn't Pegged for 5-Rounds. :x Silly, just to own one for that sake. I have a friend who had his Collectors Permit who had to get rid of all of his GUNS because of the New LAWZ of Canada. Maybe I should move to the USA, and live off of my Fathers Estate coin. O-Wait, they also have some non-sense concerning these types of Rifles also, don't they :?: Crap, he had an AK-47 mounted to his BedRoom Floor back in those Dayz

Nice Gun Though...

Krazy Mike... :idea:


Thanks! The 5 round law is pretty stupid. They should have set a reasonable limit - at least 10.
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LOL Mantis, it's called "double taps" :wink:

Nice new toy ! Tell us more after you had a chance to break it in.

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