Re: SVDs questions?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RWSGunsmithing</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
What company is that? </div></div>
They're called black horse somethingrather I think. There is talk on AKFiles about them.
The guy makes custom stocks for AK pattern rifles, rebarrels them, does magazine mods, duplicate SVD stocks/handguards/sights/parts etc.
He has all the CNC layouts to make dragunov parts minus the barrel. Last I heard his current plan is to make one with a slightly heavier than standard domestically produced barrel and talking about prototyping the end of this year.
However, IIRC he also wanted to make his own Saiga 12 and that never happened either for some reason or other. So could just be a gun nerd pipe dream.
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Here, reading material on the subject:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">There aren't too many things we can't make when it comes to metal or composites. As rumored, we are in the middle of reverse engineering the SVD and have plans to introduce it later this year as the "BHA 54", but it is way too soon to be talking about price. We're using an SVDS to do all our 3-D modeling and the gun we plan to introduce will be an exact knock off of an SVD, where even the screws are interchangeable with the original Russian Dragunov. The only change we are making is the barrel, which on the SVDS has a larger diameter. Ours will have no taper past the front gas block, giving it a bull barrel with zero whip.
The CNC machine center you see our SVD front sight being made in has a carrousel with 30 different cutting tools, and as it finishes one operation it robotically puts the tool back in the carrousel and grabs another one for the next operation and continues machining. Each of the CNC machine centers in the shop have specific uses for different applications. We also use manual process, that include knee mills and hand operated lathes. You can see Tim at the lathe in the following pictures putting the treads on the barrel for our Vepr conversion. The manufacturing assets we have at our disposal for this venture includes both our armor production facilities and Black Horse Arsenal's. You will see information about our sister company, "Confederated Armor System, Inc.", on our website in the "About Us" section. There is additional information about the armor we produce posted at
http://www.akfiles.com/forums/showpo...5&postcount=43 and
http://www.akfiles.com/forums/showpo...7&postcount=44. If you go to
http://blackhorsearsenal.gostorego.com/ you'll enter through the back door of our new site, which is up and running but can't process orders yet, or be seen by the general public at our existing URL. There are animations that don't function in "Internet Explorer" and it is best viewed with "Firefox" or "Chrome". I WANT TO REPEAT, THIS SITE CANNOT PROCESS ORDERS YET!!! We hired Cody Hulett from Traverse City, Michigan in May who started out as a customer when he bought an expandable PSL stock. Cody understands the demographic profile of our audience as he is a DMR enthusiast himself. He has come to work for us to manage our website and has taken it far beyond the limits, and then some of what everyone else told us wasn't possible. You'll be hearing from him a lot as he is also doing our monthly news letter.
We've not really given Cody a title, as he falls into a Product Manager, Marketing Manager, Sales Manager, IT Manager, Web Master and Can Do Man. I'm sure I've missed some talents so we've left the title on his business card up to him to be whatever suites his ego, sense of responsibility and abilities. He has turned the site into what it is today, with his expertise in both programming and graphics. He will be the one to inform you when the site goes live and that you can place orders. His email address is
[email protected].
The "Black Horse" section of the new site has probably had the least amount of work done to it and this is the area we are concentrating on the most right now. There is going to be a lot of "How To" and "DIY" instructions and a complete "Technical Section" that gives step by step instructions with videos on things like assembling a PSL kit, threading a barrel, etc. All the links like "Ammo / Bullets", and "Firearms" will be fully stocked and operational when we flip the switch. We are posting this before it goes live so you can tell us what changes in product offerings you'd like to see, or eliminate. One thing that isn't showing yet is an SVD forearm conversion, but we will have it.
We are using the Vepr as the prop for our new SVD front sight and flash hider "How Too" instructions, and I've posted some of the images below without the written part. We've literally got 1,000s of pictures from this build so we are taking advantage of some of them for these purposes. This build
http://www.akfiles.com/forums/showpo...1&postcount=23 with these instructions
http://www.akfiles.com/forums/showpo...4&postcount=34 is going into our technical section, where this entire project from start to finish is being documented with detailed pictures and instructions.
The e-commerce side of our business is now under a different corporate entity and location, which is BHA, Inc., dba Black Horse Arsenal. Our other corporation remains as Confederated Arms, Inc., dba Black Horse Arsenal, which has been focused on mass assembly of firearms as seen in the "About Us" section of our website. BHA is going to also be building weapons, but it will be on a very limited scale, focusing on high end Kalashnikov sniper rifles and doing custom work for customers. In our website's "How To", there is a section on doing an SVD mag conversion to the Vepr if somebody doesn't want us to do it for them.
Prior to the site going live we can process orders on stocks and some of the other items by phone at 541 369-2255. Our new address for BHA is PO Box 173, Halsey, OR 97348.</div></div>
