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CZ LONG ARMS => VZ-58 semi auto rifle => Topic started by: supernachos on August 11, 2016, 02:56:08 PM
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Oh goodie ...Look .. My VZ2008 in now worth $700.. ;D
and still currently in Stock at Atlantic!
http://www.atlanticfirearms.com/component/virtuemart/shipping-rifles/century-arms-vz-2008-with-quad-rail-and-forward-pistol-grip-detail.html?Itemid=0
(http://www.atlanticfirearms.com/images/stories/virtuemart/product/tacvz2008sf%20(1%20of%2020).jpg)
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lol - I think you meant $730.
Had I not already spent over $10k (not confessing to how much over $10k as my GF may see this) on guns and associated gear this year, I would pick one up.
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lol - I think you meant $730.
Had I not already spent over $10k (not confessing to how much over $10k as my GF may see this) on guns and associated gear this year, I would pick one up.
Pics or it didn't happen
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Pics or it didn't happen
That will be quite a few pics...
I started with a Ruger SR762. Upgrades: Vortex Viper FFP scope, SSALT mount, compensator and then a Hiperfire Hipertouch trigger and extra 20 round mags. From there I bought a Ruger LW Commander in .45 and immediately swapped out the thumb safety for a Brown tactical (finish on the Brown thumb safeties sucks so I Cerakoted it and then the grip safety). Then I bought a Ruger Precision Rifle in .243. Add Vortex optics, rings, sling, etc. I liked that rifle enough to where it was followed by a Ruger Precision Rifle in 6.5 Creedmoor. Add optics, rings, rear monopod, drag bag and match 6.5 creedmoor reloading dies. My old bipod was about to crap out so I bought a new Harris (notched legs and swivel) and then added a rotopod with QD so it could jump between rifles.
From there, a Howa 1500 HB barreled action in .308 with Talley 20moa base, SWFA 6 screw rings and a SWFA 3-15x mil-mil FFP scope (they only make these in SFP now...sucks). I was waiting on a different chassis for the Howa to be released so I went with a Boyds stock for the time being - pillar bedded and action bedded - then I added QD sling mounts to it. It is about to be Cerakoted (as soon as I can make up my mind on pattern). As it uses a standard sling stud mount I bought a dedicated bipod for it.
Somewhere in there I came across a Mosin 91/30 that was in excellent shape with no import markings so I grabbed that. That reminded me that my old Mosin project was still on the bench so it finally got its Rock Solid scope mount and new stock. About a week later, I stumbled upon a deal on a barely used Savage .30-06 bolt action...too cheap to pass up so I bought it and then refinished it in Vista camo pattern, recrowned the barrel and added a scope and rings I wouldn't mind beating up, namely, a Bushnell Banner Dust and Dawn 3-9x. The factory recoil pad was a little chewed up and sucked anyway so I replaced it with a Limbsaver.
Hmm. Then I picked up a Canik TP9v2 and two extra mags. Trigger mod and sight swap to fiber optics. Add in the cost of leather to make a pancake holster for it.
A friend then gave me an old sportsterized 1917 Enfield that was in rough shape so I tracked down and put the correct military front sight back on it and started picking up parts to correct the cutdown stock...which is a slow and time consuming process. The Enfield project was dragging so I picked up an Israeli surplus transitional model CZ75 and started working on it - it has now been Cerakoted and has new G10 grips and sights. That project went by too quickly. Boredom sucks so I then came across a deal on an AR lower at he local range so I started an 18" AR build - add Black Fallout trigger, free float tube, PEPR mount and Bushnell AR optic. After building that, I went back to my DR200 as it was mid-922r conversion. That was finished off with an AR tube, LuthAR Skullation fixed stock and BRO trigger. The other DR200 mods were last year so I won't go into those.
Then I bought a Ruger American Predator in .243 on a whim but gave it to my brother.
Then I jumped back to an old M4 profile AR build and changed out the flash suppressor for a compensator and added a QD brass catcher and mount as it flings brass too far to make tracking it down any fun. The trigger on it sucked so I swapped it out for a RRA varmint trigger group. From there, I went back to the 18" build - added QD sling mounts and QD sling. The 18" AR was pretty much done so I pulled an old Para Ordnance p14 out of the safe and Cerakoted the receiver and lower components in graphite black...I have been too lazy to refinish the slide since the heat index started hovering around 106 and I need to have a cross dovetail front added to it first anyway. Next, I jumped to my full sized SR1911 and swapped out the factory trigger for one from STI and changed out the factory thumb safety for a Cerakoted Brown tactical...the Brown just feels better than the factory Ruger thumb safety. My Para P16 then got a new grip safety - Cerakote coming soon.
LC9 swappage. I had one of the first models of the LC9 and despite the trigger job on it, its trigger was still no where close to the trigger on the LC9s pro so I traded up. After getting the LC9s pro, I added TFO sights, a spare mag and two holster. Cerakote is next.
There is a lot more but this is long enough already and you get the idea. If you want pics I will start another thread and add them with descriptions of each and all. If you want me to throw in reloading gear upgrades and knives, that would be another dozen paragraphs. :) However, the above is already more than enough for an off topic reply and I try to avoid being a thread jacker. :)
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Would love to see pics of the DR200. Pretty please...😀
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Would love to see pics of the DR200. Pretty please...[emoji3]
I will take a pic of it later today. The last one I took is several mods behind.
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I was at Cabela's in Hamburg, PA, a few days ago, and there were three of these on the used rack for $699 each. The label said CZ VZ-2008 ::)
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I was at Cabela's in Hamburg, PA, a few days ago, and there were three of these on the used rack for $699 each. The label said CZ VZ-2008 ::)
Must be a rare prototype model
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I was at Cabela's in Hamburg, PA, a few days ago, and there were three of these on the used rack for $699 each. The label said CZ VZ-2008 ::)
Must be a rare prototype model
I wish! I picked one up to verify the CAI engraving on the receiver. Had they been CZ's, I would have picked up all three and taken them to the counter.
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So I assume there's no problem in replacing the plastic on this with proper beaver barf correct?
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No, shouldn't be. Easiest to get a complete upper hg instead of just replacing the beaver barf part...
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I see places with hundreds of these in stock for under $700 with plastic but not in beaver bark.
Thinking I need to pick one up before Trump goes down.
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I see places with hundreds of these in stock for under $700 with plastic but not in beaver bark.
Thinking I need to pick one up before Trump goes down.
Barf Not Bark. Beaver Barf. :D
As in : a beaver ate a bunch of wood and barfed (vomited, hurled, puked, chundered, spewed, etc. ) it up... Hence the various size wood chips suspended within the plastic base.
A term that I believe originated with our friends and long time cz585 (aka VZ.58) operators in the great white north.
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So it doesn't have anything to do with Justin Beaver?!?
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I see places with hundreds of these in stock for under $700 with plastic but not in beaver bark.
Thinking I need to pick one up before Trump goes down.
Barf Not Bark. Beaver Barf. :D
As in : a beaver ate a bunch of wood and barfed (vomited, hurled, puked, chundered, spewed, etc. ) it up... Hence the various size wood chips suspended within the plastic base.
A term that I believe originated with our friends and long time cz585 (aka VZ.58) operators in the great white north.
CP, you ARE thorough! 8)
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Barf Not Bark. Beaver Barf. :D
LOl...I know...Got it right the first time and then typo on the 2nd.
Love the barf.
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Barf Not Bark. Beaver Barf. :D
LOl...I know...Got it right the first time and then typo on the 2nd.
Love the barf.
I am new to this forum so I don't know all the forum-specific terms. What is Beaver Barf refer to?
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Barf Not Bark. Beaver Barf. :D
LOl...I know...Got it right the first time and then typo on the 2nd.
Love the barf.
I am new to this forum so I don't know all the forum-specific terms. What is Beaver Barf refer to?
The wood impregnated plastic stocks. Looks like a beaver chewed up a bunch of wood and barfed it up
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boLT049AjXs Reviewed by Nutnfancy last month and says the Century 2008 is a "Total Fail"! The Gremlin at work!
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Reviewed by Nutnfancy last month and says the Century 2008 is a "Total Fail"! The Gremlin at work!
I don't think the problems he experienced had anything to with any variation of the gremlin, but instead weak springs, or maybe the need for this mod when using brass case:
http://www.czfirearms.us/index.php?topic=78148.0
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I have dozens of used mags and have had "ZERO" issues with any, the Century VZ 2008 is basically Junk just like the ORF VZ 2000 was a real Jam-O-Matic and ORF was never able to fix their issues!
I don't know why Nutn didn't use a D-Technik one?
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TJ's on point. There was a thread on the vid if you scroll down or click back a few pages.
Nutn has -- oddly to me -- legions of followers. On one hand, especially with the limited Czechpoints (no idea why the scarcity other than a zero sum business plan), it's good for folks wanting to buy guns. But on the other hand, more VZ58/2008/etc variant owners are a big plus to the overall VZ58 community.
All things considered, Nutn likes to put things in boxes and is somewhat myopic, so I think it's probably for the best that there won't be a mass intrusion of his folks who seem to follow a similar thought process with most thing firearms. But I hope some of the more skeptical video viewers see through the bull and make the plunge.
That video definitely turned me off Nutn's other reviews. As overall bad as that was, it has me really questioning his reviews on weapon systems I'm much more ignorant on...