Latest acquisition - PePeSha!!!!

**fernleaf** · 12-17-2014 12:24 AM

Picked this beauty up from the couriers last Friday morning....

Made in 1942 at either Plant 113 in Gorky, or the Yaroslavl Car Factory - we don't know which exactly - and whichever factory made this one it is one of the rarest manufacturers, and refurbed after the war.

As far as I know it was exported to the UK icon

from the Ukraine a few years ago, and then imported to New Zealand icon

by the person I bought it from.

My first impressions - heavy and agricultural, but I guess it does exactly what it says on the can....

This marks my first automatic/select-fire firearm purchase, and it is exactly what I was looking for...

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**enbloc8** · 12-17-2014 01:06 AM

A shame you can't fire it!

What does one of those typically go for these days?

**fernleaf** · 12-17-2014 04:16 PM

I paid the equivalent of USD$1945 for this - here the going rate at auction is about the equivalent of USD$2400.

**enbloc8** · 02-01-2015 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by fernleaf

I paid the equivalent of USD$1945 for this

LOL...how fitting!

I like the "agricultural" comment...reminiscent of somebody's past observation that Russian icon

firearms were designed to be repaired by the nearest village blacksmith.

**imarangemaster** · 02-01-2015 07:32 PM

I'm jealous!

**Vincent** · 02-01-2015 08:48 PM

A shame you can't fire it!

Really

**Bill Hollinger** · 02-01-2015 09:21 PM

Fernleaf, please explain why you are unable to shoot this weapon. Is it an authorized demil because of New Zealand icon

laws? TIA

**Res** · 02-02-2015 12:44 AM

NZ

makes it fairly easy to own such things in operating condition but you can't fire them outside of some very restrictive conditions that most can't comply with.

**Vincent** · 02-02-2015 11:39 AM

Thanks for the explanation. I will tell the wife we are not moving to NZ icon

after all.

**Res** · 02-02-2015 11:27 PM

Like everywhere there are pluses and minuses with the gun laws.

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