Latest acquisition - PePeSha!!!!

[fernleaf]

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

A shame you can't fire it!

What does one of those typically go for these days?

[fernleaf]

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

[enbloc8]

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

[imarangemaster]

I'm jealous!

[Vincent]

A shame you can't fire it!

Really

[Bill Hollinger]

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

[Res]

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]

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

[Res]

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