{"id":2174,"date":"2008-11-26T19:50:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T00:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hogonice.com\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2008-11-26T19:50:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T00:50:19","slug":"reality-czech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2174","title":{"rendered":"Reality Czech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AK Substitute?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think I may have figured out what to do about my need to 1) get a nice home defense gun and 2) defy and offend Barack Obama and his stooges by buying an imported assault rifle. I am considering a VZ 58.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hogonice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cz-vz-58-sporter_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hogonice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cz-vz-58-sporter_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cz-vz-58-sporter_1\" width=\"500\" height=\"165\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cz-vz-58-sporter_1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cz-vz-58-sporter_1-300x99.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wanted an AK-47. But liberal gun-grabbers and the whims of manufacturers have made really nice ones so expensive, it&#8217;s disgusting. A thousand dollars for a stamped receiver! Come on. I can do better with an AR15. I mean, MAYBE, if I were positive the prices would stay high. But I&#8217;m not. It&#8217;s conceivable that the artificial inflation will come to an end, and then these things will sell for $400, and my used one will be worth $250.<\/p>\n<p>While I was looking for an AK, I learned about the VZ 58. It looks like an AK, but it&#8217;s totally unrelated. It&#8217;s a Czech design, based on a German gun. It&#8217;s lighter than an AK. The magazines hold 30 rounds. It&#8217;s supposed to be as reliable as an AK, with fewer misfeeds. It&#8217;s made better; they&#8217;re either made or imported by CZ USA, so there should be no quality issues. The receiver is milled. You can get one with a cute folding stock, which is exactly what I want. And they can be had for around $850, depending on what conformation you like.<\/p>\n<p>The only bad things I&#8217;ve heard are that there are fewer accessories, and the barrels heat up faster than AK barrels. However, I&#8217;ve already chosen the accessories I want, and I am not sure why I should care about how hot the barrel gets. I can&#8217;t see myself shooting so fast, in a self-defense situation, that a hot barrel will become a problem. And if it warms up enough to affect accuracy, so what? The gun is for encounters on a small piece of property. I&#8217;m not planning to shoot people in the next county. An inch or two one way or the other would be meaningless. Left ventricle, right ventricle&#8230;I am not picky.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also heard that the folding stock is lame, because it wobbles enough to affect accuracy. Again, it won&#8217;t keep me from shooting Floyd the Crackhead Burglar in the face at twenty feet.<\/p>\n<p>Man, will this steam gun-grabbers. Between this and the giant Desert Eagle in hard chrome, I will definitely give them ulcers. Imagine me, parading around the house with my creepy assault rifle, with 30 rounds in the clip and a bright green laser and flashlight lighting my way. FREEZE, GOPHER!<\/p>\n<p>I should get a holster for the Desert Eagle, just to be more of a scary fascist.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really sad that the Desert Eagle is so worthless for self-defense. The odds of a stovepipe are like one in ten, whenever you pull the trigger. And it weighs like five pounds. And getting that second shot on target is a job. And the ballistics are not good. My best self-defense pistol is the lamest, most boring gun I have, and of course, that means Glock.<\/p>\n<p>The VZ 58 is not as offensive-looking as an AK, and of course, that is a problem. But you can&#8217;t have everything. The giant green laser will go a long way toward uglying it up.<\/p>\n<p>I slept through the cheap AK years. I slept while Arsenal quit making milled receivers. I slept through the cheap M1 Garand and M1 carbine years. Maybe I can partially redeem myself by jumping on a VZ 58 before Barack and Michelle decide gun shops are only allowed to sell Super Soakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AK Substitute? I think I may have figured out what to do about my need to 1) get a nice home defense gun and 2) defy and offend Barack Obama and his stooges by buying an imported assault rifle. I am considering a VZ 58. I wanted an AK-47. 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