CZK - vz. 33

History of origin
Short rifle (carbine) vz. 33 (factory designation vz. 16/33) was intended for Czechoslovakia. gendarmerie corps as a replacement for the obsolete Austrian carbine Mannlicher vz. 1895.


Construction
The construction is based on Musketon vz. 12/33, manufactured for Brazil. It is a repeating rifle with a retractable cylindrical barrel of the Mauser system, with three locking teeth. Ammunition is fed from a central, double-row, non-removable box, filled with ammunition tape. The mechanism of the weapon is practically identical to the army rifle vz. 24 with some parts interchangeable (the conclusion is even interchangeable the whole).


Differences from vz. 24 are as follows:
* - vz. 33 is 105 mm shorter,
* - the barrel is shorter by 100 mm,
* - weight reduced by 0.6 kg,
* - the tensioning handle is bent down with a hollow ball,
* - visor calibration 50-1000 m, division by 50m (for model 24 100-2000 m, division by 100m),
* - relief grooves on the barrel and breech case (hidden under the stock),
* - relief holes inside the forearm and in the stock head (also used to store cleaning),
* - different fly carrier,
* - a different shape of the bow (for model 33 "chubby" with a thinner front attachment),
* - fastening of the lower fastening sleeve with a tongue (for vz. 24 by a transverse pin),
* - loops of the carrying strap placed only at the bottom (for model 24 were also at the bottom on the left side - applies only to model 24 of the Czechoslovak Army, weapons for the Wehrmacht had a strap fastening according to the German standard),
* - wiper only 25 cm long, diameter 5 mm (for model 24 length 37 cm, diameter 6 mm)
* - muzzle velocity 40 m/s lower,
* - bayonet catch shortened by 15 mm,
* - bayonet handle shortened by 20 mm, blade by 45 mm.


Technical data:
Manufacturer - Zbrojovka Brno
Caliber - 7.92 mm
Ammunition - 7.92 mm Mauser (today according to C.I.P. referred to as 8x57JS)
Length without bayonet - 995 mm
Length with bayonet - 1305 mm
Barrel length - 490 mm
Weight without bayonet - 3.35 kg (according to some sources 3.48 kg)
Weight with bayonet - 3,754 kg
Magazine capacity - 5 rounds
Visor - adjustable, with calibration 50-1000 m, division by 50 m
Muzzle velocity - 820 m/s
Number of bore grooves - 4
Bore pitch - 240 mm
Sense of ascent - right


Production
Rifle vz. 33 has been manufactured in Zbrojovka, Brno, since 1934. I have not been able to find out the year of the end of production, I welcome any information. A total of 25,300 weapons were produced vz. 33.


Tagging
Rifles vz. 33 were marked according to the standards of the time. On the left side of the case was marked:
ČS. ZBROJOVKA AKC. SPOL. V BRNĚ
VZ. 33
On the sleeve of the breech case was a Czech lion with a Slovak emblem on its chest. On the left side of the sleeve, the serial number (four digits and a letter) and above it the acceptance mark (E lion and the last two digits of the year). A circular marking plate was inserted on the right side of the stock head, on which the serial number of the rifle was in the lower part and the user's designation in the upper part (ČETN - Četnictvo, or FS - Finanční stráž).
After the occupation and the proclamation of the Slovak state, the removal of all symbols of the common Czechoslovak Republic was ordered on both banks of the Morava River. state. In the newly established Protectorate, the Slovak emblem, sometimes the entire lion, was removed from the lion's chest (mostly by punching). In Slovakia, the whole lion was removed (again with a hole punch) and the letters "ČS" in the name of the armory were knocked out. Occurrence of rifles vz. 33 with a preserved lion on the sleeve of the case is therefore very rare.


G 33/40
In 1941 on the basis of a short rifle (carbine) vz. 33 was created rifle G 33/40, designed for the mountain infantry of the German Wehrmacht.


From the original vz. 33 differs as follows:
* - 5 mm longer,
* - shorter forearm,
* - longer bayonet capture,
* - fastening of the supporting belt according to the German standard,
* - higher stock shoe (therefore the weapon is 5 mm longer),
* - protective plate on the left side of the stock head,
* - other fly protector.


Until the end of production in 1942, 131403 G 33/40 rifles were produced.
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Sources:
- V. Dolínek, V. Karlický, P. Vácha - Czech weapons and ammunition
- V. Dolínek, V. Francev, J.Šach - Weapons of the 1st and 2nd World Wars
- Ing. D. Rehak - Czechoslovak Army rifles vz. 24 and 33, Střelecká revue 9/2000
- L. Olson - Mauser Bolt Rifles, Third Edition
- A. B. Zuk - Rifles and submachine guns
- OKH, Heereswaffenamt - Gewehr 33/40 - Description, handling and treatment instructions
- own research

& # 268; ethnic rifle vz. 33

Rifle vz. 33, the year of production 1935:.

The designation of the Gendarmerie on the marker plate, inlaid into the butt:
(own photo).

Comparison of the gendarmerie rifles vz. 33 with the army's vz. 24. Vz. 33 is on both pictures below:.

short rifle vz. 33 has been introduced as the standard rifle also for the Financial guards. Exceptionally it should be in the arsenal of even some of the police offices.

Source:

Jaroslav Beneš: Financial guard czechoslovakia 1918-1938, Fortprint, Dvůr Králové nad Labem, 2005

Jaroslav Beneš: Guard defense of the state of 1936-1939, Fortprint, Dvůr Králové nad Labem, 2007 (at the present time, it creates the rate books).

I would like to puprave, a few differences compared to the army rifle vz.24. The vz.33 gendarme rifle has an eye for a belt on the upper sleeve and from the left side, and the fixed, lower loop located at the bottom of the stock was rotatable, so the rifle could be worn flat. The entire diameter of the breech case was smaller than on the army rifle vz.24, the rear bridge of the breech case (in the place for insertion of the ammunition tape) was also thoroughly milled, and at the same time I can confirm the relief grooves on the breech case, hidden under the stock. The only thing I have to refute are the "relief grooves milled from the bottom of the barrel" I own a vz.33 rifle and I have no grooves on the barrel. Yeah, and overall, the stock is smaller and narrower than the vz.24.


Source: own weapon

If you're on vz.33 on the upper sleeve the eye and on the side, then it's the bushings from vz.24.
Those grooves under the main on the weekend, yet I look (even if I admit that have the capacity to make her I don't like ) if I quit, or it's just badly written..

Nope, the sleeve of the vz.24 it is not, it has the side-eye of the swivel, the vz.33 is a top eye fixed, one-piece, together with the sleeve. And surely it is the origo, I've seen it min on two other 33tkách.

Perhaps it's from this photos will see, kdyžtak it vyfotim better, when I'm at home.

Source: own a gun.

Oh and while I'm at it, so podělim about a couple of pictures of this luxury beauty

Source: own a gun.

Interesting, my vz. 33 side tab does not. And that is the original, I'm sure at 100%.

The photos are compared to the vz. 24 of 1937 (vz. 33 below). And then a picture of vypažbené weapons.
(own photo).

And even a few pictures vypažbené vz. 33 compared to the vz. 24.
(own photo)..

So it is zajmavé, without the side puotka her reading first. And it is not a vintage finish, konkretního weapon users ? I attach one more photo of the other vz.33 on which there is also a strap, as on my. Oh, and those pressure relief grooves on the barrel there I mean not that ? Under the stock is the same as mine


Source of photos: Euroarms.

I see that you got a brand rozdulčikovaného lion. I give here a photo of mine, where he was raznicí rozdulčikováný just a Slovak emblem on the breast of the lion. And just for info, the detail of the visor.
Oh, and prosimtě, could you give detajlní a photo of the pivot of the bottom of the loops ? Thanks
Source: own a gun.

The lower swivel wrist strap take.
Rozdůlčikovaný all the little lion is because my gun after march 1939 remained in Slovakia.
About the grooves under the main - I don't remember what I thought at the time. Maybe I meant this "window" below the cartridge chamber..

The promised pictures of the bottom of the swivel belt loops.
Own photo..

© Radek Havelka, Brussels





Left G-41(M).

I own VZ.33 serial Number 291 with engraved text on stock and action that says:
" POLIC. REDITELSTVI MOR.OSTRAVA 291". I see that other rifles don't have anything on their receivers and I'm curies what this means and why is engraved.
Barrel is in bad condition and I would like to restore rifle.
Are the treads on VZ.33 and VZ.24 barrel same and is the barrel interchangeable?

the translation of the engraving is


"The police directorate in Moravska Ostrava 291" where Moravska Ostrava is a name of a city. It was engraved probably to mark a ownership of that police station.

HELLO ALL, I HAVE A QUESTION.
ANYONE HAVE SOME DOCUMENTATION OR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE POST-WAR CZECHOSLOVAK RIFLE WHICH WAS ALLEGEDLY PRODUCED AS A PROTOTYPE AND IS MARKED AS PATTERN -49,THE CALIBER OF PERHAPS 7.5 MM ,HAD A STACK OF ABOUT TEN ROUNDS AND THE CONCLUSION WAS ACTUALLY A SCALED DOWN MAUSER BUT THE ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE WAS IN THE DIMENSION OF THE END AND IN THE VYTAHOVAČI. RIFLE M-98 AND ITS COPY HAS A EXTRACTOR BOTH OF THE CHECK SLEEVE TO THE CYLINDER END AND IS QUITE LONG, SO THE RIFLES VZ-49 IS THE TOTAL OF UNCHARACTERISTIC EXTRACTOR VERY SMALL,DRIVEN IN THE GROOVE ,WHICH IS VYSOUSTRUŽENA JUST FOR UZAMYKACÍMY JOINTED AND HAS ONE INTERNAL WALL BEVELLED AT AN ANGLE. EXTRACTOR HAS A CORRESPONDING SHAPE OF THE CASTING ,WHICH FITS INTO THE ANGLED RECESS OF THE GROOVE AND AGAINST THE VYPADENÍ IS ENSURED SPECIAL TRÁTĚNOU POLICY,WHICH SURROUNDS THE INNER DIAMETER OF THE GROOVE END AND AT THE SAME TIME IS NATVAROVÁNA SO THAT VTAHOVAČ ENSURE AGAINST ACCIDENTAL ROTATION WHEN ROZBORCE WEAPONS.
THIS RIFLE WAS PROBABLY PRODUCED IN RELATIVELY LARGE QUANTITIES BUT NEVER LEFT THE WAREHOUSES AND WERE SUBSEQUENTLY VŠECNY PIECES SCRAPPED.PRESERVED ONLY A VERY FEW SPECIMENS AND NO LITERATURE I KNOW ABOUT THIS WEAPON MENTIONED.THEREFORE, I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SEEING ANY INFORMATION AND AFTER CASE PHOTOS.
PERSONALLY I ONLY KNOW OF ONE WEAPON,WHICH IS CONVERTED TO A HUNTING VERSION BUT THAT IS ALL. FOR ANY INFORMATION THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
FOR ANY MESSAGES to MY EMAIL, rupmir@email.cz.

Personally, I would say that about the rifle mentions one of the books that I have at work. Unfortunately, I don't know when I can get to her. But in a nutshell - prototype, scale mauserův conclusion and caliber 7.5 mm sits, I'd say.
I'll try to ask someone if I could get the book somehow nepoposunul to Caslav..

so nobody knows anything?.

What the chief puska? The year of the sedi, the Mauser also is introduced was also... of the Czech arms and ammunition, Dolinek, Karlicky, Vacha.

Or even a rifle out of the competition for a new're marine scout rifle....