VZ 58, VZ 59 and VZ 54 Sniper Rifle By Czechoslovakia

The Cz name is called  Czechoslovakia produce VZ 58 Sniper Rifle originally designed as an experiment in the early 1990s,  the Mk 58/98 Sniper Rifle was later issued as a platoon sharpshooter’s weapon in airborne, air assault, and mechanized infantry units.  Normally, 1-2 of these rifles were issued per platoon. This weapon is based on the VZ-58 assault rifle. It is a platoon sharpshooter's weapon rather than that of a dedicated sniper rifle.  Differences include a sliding stock, longer barrel, and M-16 style flash hider.  The handguard is also replaced by a plastic one.  Unlike other sniper rifles,  it is capable of automatic fire, retaining the selective fire mechanism of the VZ-58 Sniper Rifle.  Standard sight for this weapon is the PSO-1 sight of the Dragunov. Very few examples of this weapon have been seen in public as of 2002, and those may have only been prototypes.  They have not  yet been officially offered for sale.

 VZ-54 Sniper Rifle

 As Czechoslovakia tended to do during their Warsaw Pact  days,  the Czechs went their own way with a lot of their weapons.  One of these was their sniper rifle, the VZ-54 sniper Rifle;  as long as they accepted the 7.62mm Nagant cartridge, the Russians allowed them to design their own weapon.  The Czechs took a Mauser action, and came up with a magazine-fed bolt-action rifle that looked similar to the Mosin-Nagant M-1891/30 sniper rifle, but  shorter and lighter. 

The production quality was very good, andthe rifle was built to close tolerances.  Civilian hunting scopes were used rather than military scopes, though the VZ-54 rifle could also mount Pact  military hardware; the standard scope is a civilian-type 2.5x scope.  The VZ-54 Sniper rifle is still widely used by Czech and Slovakian snipers, though it is very slowly being replaced by the CZ-700 and foreign rifles.