Combloc
Stop Negassing me!!!!!
Today, thanks to the absolutely outstanding generosity of a fellow collector, I received a package in the mail that ended a many year search for the bits required to make a regular VZ58 into a VZ58 Pi. What's that?? It's the infrared scope version of the regular VZ58. It looks like this:
The conical flash hider isn't very hard to find. The infrared scope (just a Czech built NSP-2) isn't too hard to find either. The part that is unobtanium is the scope rail that mounts on the rifle's receiver. After looking for years upon years, I had pretty much given up and thought I would never find one. Even pictures of the rail are like hens teeth. I couldn't even figure out how it was mounted to the receiver. I've only ever found a couple pictures and close-up detailed pictures of it are seemingly nonexistent......until now.
It turns out that the rail is riveted to the receiver just like an AK rail. It obviously uses four rivets. The other three holes are for the fire control group pins to pass through. The pictures I did find online don't show rivets though so maybe they are ground flush after it's attached to the receiver.
Here's the back of the rail:
The bottom of the rail is at the top of the picture. It's contoured to match the coutours of the receiver so that it screws down solid and true. The gloopy looking stuf to the right of the picture is paint the typical grey/blue Czech paint.
The front end of the rail:
And the rear end:
Another angle of the inside rear:
Inside bottom:
Front again:
And rear again:
In its proper position on the rifle:
You cannot mount a folding stock with this rail in place.
A few close-ups of the flash hider:
I've had the NSP-2 scope for years waiting to find a rail:
Most of you guys probably couldn't care less but to me, this is UberKool and it's the end of a looooong hunt! I refuse to drill holes in my existing VZ58 so now I need to find another earlier D-Tech in the original grey blue finish with the open front sight (either would do but I prefer the open sight. I'm willing to pay more than retail if someone has one they are willing to part with. Hint Hint.
The conical flash hider isn't very hard to find. The infrared scope (just a Czech built NSP-2) isn't too hard to find either. The part that is unobtanium is the scope rail that mounts on the rifle's receiver. After looking for years upon years, I had pretty much given up and thought I would never find one. Even pictures of the rail are like hens teeth. I couldn't even figure out how it was mounted to the receiver. I've only ever found a couple pictures and close-up detailed pictures of it are seemingly nonexistent......until now.
It turns out that the rail is riveted to the receiver just like an AK rail. It obviously uses four rivets. The other three holes are for the fire control group pins to pass through. The pictures I did find online don't show rivets though so maybe they are ground flush after it's attached to the receiver.
Here's the back of the rail:
The bottom of the rail is at the top of the picture. It's contoured to match the coutours of the receiver so that it screws down solid and true. The gloopy looking stuf to the right of the picture is paint the typical grey/blue Czech paint.
The front end of the rail:
And the rear end:
Another angle of the inside rear:
Inside bottom:
Front again:
And rear again:
In its proper position on the rifle:
You cannot mount a folding stock with this rail in place.
A few close-ups of the flash hider:
I've had the NSP-2 scope for years waiting to find a rail:
Most of you guys probably couldn't care less but to me, this is UberKool and it's the end of a looooong hunt! I refuse to drill holes in my existing VZ58 so now I need to find another earlier D-Tech in the original grey blue finish with the open front sight (either would do but I prefer the open sight. I'm willing to pay more than retail if someone has one they are willing to part with. Hint Hint.
