My guns so far

[Knecht]

Not having a huge collection yet, but love each and every one of these.

Let's start with the oldest. Both in my possession and in type. Wheel lock carbine, based on an early 1600's original. 18mm smoothbore. Surrounded with bunch of my other stuff for cossack reenactment and living-history. Sabre, axe (czakan), knife, shooting accessories. Many of these items are my handmades.

Already shown this one here - semi-auto version of our vz.58 assault rifle, 7.62x39. Shortened, blackened, front sight welded on the gas block and whole gun refinished with modern plastic instead of the original AK-like stock and grip). Along with our old paratrooper's knife UTON 75 (still army issued, best all around knife I've ever had). Background is an old Czechoslovakian uniform from the 60-70s)

Now an "agent set" - Beretta M71 .22LR and a non-metalic knife (Skean Dhu by Cold steel). This pistol comes from izraelian surplus sale, used by Mossad agents (these little .22s were used for several assasinations of muslim terrorist leaders in izraelian's revenge mission "Wrath of God", which followed the famous München massacre of their Olympic sportsmen)
Great little pistol! Cheap and reliable, can't beat that!

And finally, my two Rugers.
P89DC 9mm, with Hogue grip. Along with my EDC stuff - Cold Steel Spartan folder, Leatherman Wave multitool, CS MiniPal push dagger on carkeys. P89 is my carry gun.

GP-100 .357 Magnum, 3", old series (I got it with the rubber/wood grip, but switched for Hogue). My outdoor carry gun, along with CS Recon Scout bowie and a Swiss "Hunter" folder.

And the modern gungroup together:

 

[Ruger1441]

Nice ones, thanks for sharing

 

[JWhitmore44]

Nice collection, love that axe (czakan).

 

[Don Lovel]

If you had one of those drop dead pretty Czech girls holding a cold glass of frothy Czech pilsner, your picture would be perfect.....well maybe a nice CZ75 model hanging in there too

 

[DeletedMember58]

Great stuff Knecht! Call you tell us if the czakan was purchased or made by you? Also the leather covered powder horn, absolutely wonderful!

 

[Knecht]

Sorry, ran out of pilsner...

CZ75...nice gun but not on my list for now...once I get to buy a CZ pistol, it will rather be a CZ85, as I'm left handed and it's ambidextrous...or maybe I'll rather get one of the Alfa pistols (another Czech company, makes nice 75 clones, not bad quality for a reasonable price, plus they can have at least the magazine release easily rebuilt for left hand)...one of their Defenders in .45 would be nice.

As for the drop dead pretty Czech girls, well...this one may not be considered a supermodel by today's tastes, but she loves both me and guns and that's all I ask for. I love her.

 

[Chief 101]

Chief says, "she could be a supermodel...but she has too much class."
Chief aka Maxx Load

 

[WendyZXZ]

That is nice...I especially like the wheel lock carbine.

 

[Stoots]

Not having a huge collection yet, but love each and every one of these.

Let's start with the oldest. Both in my possession and in type. Wheel lock carbine, based on an early 1600's original. 18mm smoothbore. Surrounded with bunch of my other stuff for cossack reenactment and living-history. Sabre, axe (czakan), knife, shooting accessories. Many of these items are my handmades.

Way cool!

I love black powder!

 

[Knecht]

Great stuff Knecht! Call you tell us if the czakan was purchased or made by you? Also the leather covered powder horn, absolutely wonderful!

Thanks to everyone for the kind comments. Glad you like my little (growing!) collection. As for the czakan, I only made shaft for it. I do some blacksmithing by myself but this item was too hard to do for me, so I asked my friend, a professional smith, to make it for me. I made the knife and much of the shooting stuff, as well as a lots of work on the carbine to finish it and make it actualy shoot (the gunsmith that made it screwed up couple details, but at least didn't ask that much for it). I also just finished and assembled the sabre, made sheath and rig for it, didn't forge the blade (made by another smith friend). I wish I could forge more, but since I finished my studies and started regular working, I don't have much time..

The powder horn is a classic shape, very popular in the 1750's cossack army. It was made of wood actualy, not horn. No idea why, as a real horn is much easier to make into a powder container, but they did it this way. The whole material culture of cossacks is very interesting to me, that's why I do reenact it (doesn't have much in common with my country's history, though there were some small units operating here during 30years war). I mean the era of free cossacks, not the regular army they were made into once they became part of Russia back then (they fought a war to get free from their Polish masters and ended up under russian tsar. Well done boys, that was smart! )