My Rifles - CSA VZ58 (not an AK) 

I concur, it's a really nice rifle for all the things you pointed out. Thanks for the feedback!

@@vorwaerts_nie_zurueck I was reading the comments (back in 2010) about the VZ58, and a gentlemen that I presume was from the Czeck Republic said, the Russians give the AK to the CR, and said, "make it better!" This is a very good weapon that many qualified marksmen call, The Best!" I like it better than the AK47 because you can place a stripper clip in the top. If there was a way to put Tritium around the stripper guides, it would facilitate ease-of-use in the pm hours.

I really love them but just don't have the money to buy one rightnow. One of buddy collect cz pistol

Darn you, now I will spend 3h searching for one 😅 jokes aside, thanks - didn't know

@@vorwaerts_nie_zurueck Pleasure to help. Only the original bipod (AFAIK) had non-telescoping, longish legs. When folded, they’d interfere with your fore-grip… Not sure if there’s a modern offering for the bayonet rail. :-/ (If you find one, let me know; as a Czech shooter, I’m practically breaking the law by not yet having a sa. vz. 58 and I’m contemplating the very same model you’ve got… ;-))

@@vaclavkrpec2879 What are you waiting for? Get one 😁

@@vorwaerts_nie_zurueck My gun vaults are full… I’ll have to sell something first and I don’t know what. :-)

@@vaclavkrpec2879 oh i know this situation. What can I say... Never sell 😅

If I recall correctly, they use the shorty version though 😀

@@vorwaerts_nie_zurueck Yh that was the VZ58 Sporter in 5.56

The barf does have it's appeal! Enjoy 😁

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F.A.B. UAS-VZ P. Yeah it's not hard to install it, but it's polymer and can break on you, as it did for me 😅

CSA ships the sporter with the side rail adapter already installed, thankfully 😅

I have a csa and it didn’t were could I get one???

@@ajahijernigan4051 i can't post any links due to RU-vid regulations, but ask CSA they will help ;)

To be fair, I don't have a lot of comparisons when it comes to 7.62x39 AKs. What I can say is that CSA makes great barrels and their overall build quality is better than your average AK. I had no problems hitting targets out 300m with either

Thank you for the insight :) @@vorwaerts_nie_zurueck

I show the optic in detail at 15:36. Rakurs optic

And it happens to be miles ahead of the AK47. Only reason AK fanboys go nuts is because they haven’t upgraded to a VZ58.

@@johnscreekmark Miles ahead of an AK by being a generation behind an AK and only in use by Slovakia. Even Vietnam, the only nation to really use the VZ58 in combat UPGRADED to the AK. So miles ahead of the AK where? To the exit of some American podunk trailerpark. Aside from the horror of logistics, these were substitute standard weapons because they weren't as good. Think Gew 88 when every else has or wants Gew 98s. There really isn't anything the VZ 58 offers anyone over an AKM, and that's why the Czechs practically gave them away to the NVA and VC who appreciated them very much BECAUSE THEIR MANUAL OF ARMS WAS SO SIMILAR TO AN SKS. I'm not an AK fan boy; although, it's hard to see any substantive successful competitor to the AK in the post war era. The VZ58 will go down as a small arms footnote, the infantry arm issued when you were too poor to afford an AK or stuck with a stupid procurement by a bureaucrat in a planned economy. Was it a reliable weapon? Somewhat. But when the Israelis tested small arms in the mid 1970s to decide what they were going to replace the FAL with they found it was much more prone to stoppages than the AK platform, and ultimately they pursued an AK based infantry weapon - the Galil ARM. While the IDF is not the final word in small arms, it does carry a lot more weight than the russophobic braying of someone who has no idea what he's talking about as he tries to put an inferior, earlier generation weapon on a pedestal.

@@rmichaelzachary8574 Spoken like an AK Fan-boy, alright…😆😆. Sorry you can’t afford to upgrade to a true VZ58.

@@johnscreekmark Go fix your trailer before it rolls away. Is that you grunting or your ma pushing a stone? ROFLMAO! And I think most people can handle the $399 Century Arms special you call a "true VZ58." Vietnam has crates of the real things just rusting away in storage, really used in combat, being used to DEFEAT THE "SUPERIOR AMERICAN ARMED FORCES." Because they've upgraded to real weapons - AKs - and see a Czech bureaucrat's modernized SKS as something for poorer nations and American parts kit gun trailer park losers who will buy their scrap at a premium. If the Czech guns are the "real thing," then why did the Czechs get rid of the VZ58 over a decade ago as being "obsolete," "inferior," "not capable of meeting the needs of a modern army." When the Czechs badmouth their small arms, pretty clear that American trailer park hate has nothing to say. So go take it up with the Czech army and shut your mouth. Convince them your Century Arms VZ58 is superior.

@@rmichaelzachary8574a whole essay just to say “it’s not as popular as the ak so that makes it not as good!”. Sorry bro, it’s better than the ak in damn near every metric aside from an abundance of magazines/parts which the ak only wins at due to popularity. The ak is also cheaper to manufacture hence its popularity. Have owned and extensively shot both. The vz58 is objectively better than the ak

The rush-inz gave it to the checks, and said, "make it better!".

Not only is it handier and with more features than an AK, but the recoil impulse is softer and without the pronounced muzzle rise resulting from the greater moving mass of a long stroke piston design