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This is Not an AK-47
It's a Czech VZ-58, developed by CZ Brno in Czechoslavakia in 1958 in lou of adapting the Soviet AK-47. The VZ-58 Assault Rifle used the same 7.62x39mm round as the AK, but no parts interchange, not even the similiar looking 30-round magazines. With the VZ-58, Czechoslavakia was the one Warsaw Pact country that never used the Kalashnikov AK-47. The VZ-58 is lighter than the AK, but still uses a milled receiver. Pictured here with two spare magazines, loose ammo, bayonet and scabbard. Drawn with colored pencils and pen in my breakroom, then ripped out of my sketchbook for scanning and cleanup/cropping in photoshop.
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