Hello urbudy,
Recently I ran into a Bulgarian (of all people) carrying a "sniper" rifle I had never seen before. I had seen them carrying Dragunovs and PSL's but this had a heavier barrel, looked beefier, had nice wood furniture but had AK over under handguards, plus the hooded front sight looked beefy like a Yugoslavian rifle. So I asked him what if he spoke English, he did, and then asked what type of rifle he had. He replied "a sniper rifle". I felt stupid, so I asked if I could get a picture of it, he said sure, then his buddies let me hold it and get a picture of it too. I knew the guy had to run so I snapped two quick pictures while I was holding it before he took off. I'm kind of kicking myself for not getting a better picture of the scope mount and other parts, but time was an issue as he had stuff to do. I got a chance to ask him what caliber, and I was suspecting 8mm because it looked Yugoslavian, but he said "seven six two".
So I went and did some research. I knew right away before checking the internet that it had to be Yugoslavian due to A) the handguards B) front sight post C) orange tag on the scope... seriously orange tag for a sniper rifle?
I PROMISE I WILL POST PICTURES LATER!
Question: how do we get these into the U.S.? I already read a rumor control saying they won't be imported, BUT, Zastava has already imported a Kalashnikov variant with a thumbhole buttstock in here that was Ban compliant. From what I read on wikipedia (the ultimate source for credible information
) it only holds ten rounder mags. We could totall get this in as a "sporting rifle".