Introducing the Newest Member of My Family!

[Elessar]

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.

[CX]

You have to name one Vera one of these days.

[Elessar]

You have to name one Vera one of these days.

hehehehe, well that's taken though! 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.

[Asso]

You have to name one Vera one of these days.

[enterprikayak]

Man! You're like Priso and his stupid man-guitars! How many of these things do you HAVE now? I mean I know the second amendment was origianlly written with an eye to maintaining a national militia, but you *do* know that you aren't *personally* responsible for arming the militia yourSELF, right?



Okay....don't answer right away. Let us guess first.

HOW MANY GUNS DO YOU THINK JOHN HAS?
A) 1-3
B) 4-6
C) 7-9
D) 10-12
E) MORE THAN TWELVE

I'm going to guess "C" personally.

Anyone else wanna guess?





......and, uh, congrats I guess, y'know, on the new addition to the family........

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Seeing just the thread title, I just knew what I was going to find when clicking on it...

One of these days, he's gonna surprise us all and present a picture of a real-life, honest to God, live breathing fiancé.

[Linda]

Family gatherings must be very interesting in the Elessar family!

[justTripn]

I was expecting a cat. Really . . . *sigh*

[enterprikayak]

Come now, midear. You know when Elessar "introduces" anyone....it's a gun. Or maybe some ammo. Or some cool scope-type thing.


You have no IDEA how surprised I was after a year or so of chatting with this nice little engineering student to find out what a bloodthirsty, ammo-stocking, gun-nut he was. Hard to reconcile the two images.

But one would think you'd be USED to it by now Ann!

[justTripn]

I know. I'm the kind of person you can pull a practical joke on over and over. I take everything at face value.

[JadziaKathryn]

I'll go with option C also, ek.

[Elessar]

Come now, midear. You know when Elessar "introduces" anyone....it's a gun. Or maybe some ammo. Or some cool scope-type thing.


You have no IDEA how surprised I was after a year or so of chatting with this nice little engineering student to find out what a bloodthirsty, ammo-stocking, gun-nut he was. Hard to reconcile the two images.

But one would think you'd be USED to it by now Ann!

I think it's just cuz I have fun with them. Like I believe in the 2A but I don't consider myself a fanatic because I don't vehemently argue absolutely ANY gun rights point for the 2A side of it. Like when I get NRA emails that are like "HURRY AND DEFEND OUR RIGHT TO CARRY IN OUR NATIONAL PARKS! TEDDY KENNEDY IS TRYING TO TURN US INTO A SOCIALIST STATE BY TAKING AWAY YOUR GUNS AT NATIONAL PARK CHECKPOINTS!!!!" I go

Anyway, I'm not starting a discussion on that. The point I was driving at was that philosophically I'm a moderate gun nut, I just like to own them. God if I had more reliable employment... are you kidding? I'd have LOADS! And nicer ones! Like, the guns I own, none of them are nice and pricy. My AK was the most expensive gun I've ever bought (barely more than my .45, which was my first, and a christmas present), and it was a bargain milsurp AK - not a brand new AK. Those are like $700.

You can drop some serious cash on a gun. I mean you can easily spend $1200 on a pistol. It's a little harder for someone with MY interests to spend $1200 on a rifle unless it's an AR. I could see someone like CX or Mitchell or BnB who maybe hunt, more easily spending that much though. The optics for some of those applications can run pricy, too. Talk to D, I bet she can tell you horror stories about men and their gun spending , as her hubby hunts in Africa. I bet those rigs run some serious coin... I'm incredibly jealous

But anyway, I shall reveal the answer to this question:

B

I have 6. Their names:

Pocahantas - Savage MkII .22LR bolt action rifle

Maria - Century Arms Romanian AKM/47 General Purpose model (6-point collapsible ATI Strikeforce buttstock, custom translucent mags, Tapco two-stage trigger, ergo grip, receiver-cover rails, 3-9x40 scope... soon will add a compensator) - this weapon fires a 7.62x39mm round by the way.

Natalia - 1944 M91/30 Mosin Nagant bolt action rifle (7.62x54R)

Anastasia - 1944 M44 Mosin Nagant bolt action rifle (7.62x54R)

Sobia - Ruger .45ACP P90T

Ksenia - the new 1980's CZ-82 (m.82 they called it in actual Czech) 9x18 mm Makarov

(Obviously the names match their nationalities, except Pocahantas, that's just because it's a Savage and it has a Native American as the emblem)

I also have a Chinese Norinco .177 air rifle that SAYS it's "lethal up to 375 yards", I kid you not. We still haven't shot it. My friend's dad gave it to me. It's actually built out of an authentic Chinese SKS stock, because the Chinese apparently use these as training rifles (the way we might use a .22). I'm very very tempted to actually gut the weapon parts and build an SKS out of it because it would look soooo sweet. It has what looks like an original like 1950's era SKS stock on it (which it isn't, because it's a recreation, but it looks authentic).

I know. I'm the kind of person you can pull a practical joke on over and over. I take everything at face value.

It's because she's just so innocent and wholesome!!!

[enterprikayak]

she really really is.


What happened to Nourhan? Y'sell her or something?

[Linda]

So all your guns have female names, Elessar? There must be some psychological significance to that.

[Entilzha]

There is a saying about the pistol Makarov run in a strait line and you will not get hit. The predecessor TT is a much more dangerous weapon and is banned in my country because it can easily penetrate regular body armor and the ammo has a high danger of ricochet. I have seen the results in a body armor(with steel plate insert) that can stop the 7.62x25mm versus the 9x18mm of the PM. The PM round left a little small dent but the TT round deformed almost the whole steel plate.