Introducing the Newest Member of My Family!
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:51 pm
KSENIA
Ksenia is a CZ-82 9x18mm Makarov military police surplus pistol from the former Soviet Czechoslovakia. She has had a hard life, full of all work and no play. She served for about 20 years in the Czechoslovakian Military Police and saw the fall of communist Czechoslovakia. I don't know when she came to the United States, and she doesn't talk much about her past - I suspect that she was party to some chaotic times in the former Soviet bloc - but she loves it in America! She has always been unique - a trend-setter. While other Soviet countries' service weapons were cheap, easy-to-manufacture single stack pistols with low capacity - and many of them chambered in the smaller, weaker 7.62x25mm Tokarev cartridge - her lineage can be traced back to a long history of Czechoslovakian independence. The Czechs who designed her wanted more power than the old Tokarev bullet, more capacity than a 1911-style American weapon, but less complexity. She is small, but packs a vicious punch. Her finish is pretty in-tact, all save the bluing under her trigger guard and on the lower edges of the magazines, due to the arrangement of the Czech service holster causing the two to rub together during movement. Most of her finish looks great though, and to my utter glee and amazement; her bore is absolutely exquisitely bright without any rust, meaning the barrel will be very accurate and last very long.
Ksenia is a CZ-82 9x18mm Makarov military police surplus pistol from the former Soviet Czechoslovakia. She has had a hard life, full of all work and no play. She served for about 20 years in the Czechoslovakian Military Police and saw the fall of communist Czechoslovakia. I don't know when she came to the United States, and she doesn't talk much about her past - I suspect that she was party to some chaotic times in the former Soviet bloc - but she loves it in America! She has always been unique - a trend-setter. While other Soviet countries' service weapons were cheap, easy-to-manufacture single stack pistols with low capacity - and many of them chambered in the smaller, weaker 7.62x25mm Tokarev cartridge - her lineage can be traced back to a long history of Czechoslovakian independence. The Czechs who designed her wanted more power than the old Tokarev bullet, more capacity than a 1911-style American weapon, but less complexity. She is small, but packs a vicious punch. Her finish is pretty in-tact, all save the bluing under her trigger guard and on the lower edges of the magazines, due to the arrangement of the Czech service holster causing the two to rub together during movement. Most of her finish looks great though, and to my utter glee and amazement; her bore is absolutely exquisitely bright without any rust, meaning the barrel will be very accurate and last very long.
I don't want to use one that's already taken... plus for one to deserve the name Vera it'd have to be pretty hoss... Idk, like an AR maybe. Or an HK USC-to-UMP conversion.
There must be some psychological significance to that.