Yesterday we looked at the standard Polish service rifle, the wz.96 Beryl. Today we have the carbine version, the Mini-Beryl. Specifically, we have an early example, predating several of the mid-life improvements that were made by the time the first major contract for the Mini-Beryl was placed.
Prototype
Bechowiec: Polish Teenager Makes a Resistance SMG
https://youtu.be/vNoyjHwVCmQ The Bechowiec (or Beha) is a fascinating SMG produced in small numbers in southern Poland under German occupation during World War Two. It was made for use by the Bataliony Chłopskie (Peasant Battalions) by […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Presentation Walther VG-1 (Video)
We took a look at this rifle with a few photos a while back, but I do now have some video of it as well – a VG-1 last ditch rifle with an inlaid plaque […]
Select-fire Rifles
A Tantalean Ordeal
or How the Poles Got to Have their Small-Caliber Kalashnikov Made “My Way” We don’t often talk about modern weapons here, but the Polish wz.88 “Tantal” is moving quickly towards obscurity.Rendered obsolete by logistics nearly […]
You mentioned that this carbine came from Radam. Is this the same factory that produced the P-35?
Great video, keep up the great work.
Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FB_%22Łucznik%22_Radom
Thank you, I own a VIS P-35 that my father in law carried home after WW-2. It is a great handgun and shoots great.
“(…)Radam. Is this the same factory that produced the P-35(…)”
It is RADOM as can be seen at Pistole 35(p) specimens, for example https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radom_(6825677274).jpg
Uhm… something wrong happened to link I post, copy and paste into browser address bar to see photo.
Thanks DAWEO,
I have owned a VIS P-35 for close to 50 years. My Father-in-law brought it back from WW-2. When he first showed it to me, I just thought of it as an inferior copy of a 1911. Man was I wrong. It is totally reliable and shoots great. I probably haven’t shot it in over 20 years, but I still get it out once and a while and clean it and remember my Father-in-law. It has the original holster and extra magazine.
I can see pretty good fit and finish. Apparently Polish industry updated its mfg. machinery park by that time.
I think the Polish AKMs fit and finnish has been better than most except maybe the East Germans. Theses currently look top notch. https://www.wbprogow.com/
“Jack’s Rifles” look really good – respect. Thanks for showing.
“Apparently Polish industry updated its mfg. machinery park by that time.”(C)
Since what year, 1968?
Polish AKMs were still more carefully crafted than the original back then.
https://image.ibb.co/gFOkOk/IMG_9133.jpg
https://ww2.ru/upload/iblock/da6/may11-024.jpg
And now. 😉
Ian, sorry to correct you, but this is not “double-you-zee”
Polish ‘wz’ sounds like ‘voo-zet’
(I know it’s strange, but that’s how it sounds)
ppor. turpin