Forgotten Weapons Gets To Shoot A Walther WA 2000
Ever lusted after the obscure and ultra-scarce Walther WA 2000 semi-auto sniper rifle? You aren’t alone, I have often wondered how they shoot, what the trigger feels like and so on. Well, my friend Ian over at Forgotten Weapons had a chance to get behind one of these moon rocks. Lucky bastard.
Ian let a teaser slip out on Reddit to get our mouth watering for more, and damned if it isn’t. I can only hope that he talks about the experience so I can live vicariously through him. Ian said ” A Walther WA 2000, in .300 Winchester Magnum. Shoots softer than a Garand. Easy, fast hits. Bipod of a FAMAS, for some inexplicable reason. It’s magnificent. Makes me a bit sad that I will never have one. That said, it does have all the foibles of an essentially pre-production design. Video coming soon (with high speed).”
.300 Win Mag, shoots softer than a Garand, and surrender sticks?!? You have my attention.
Check out Ian’s channel Forgotten Weapons on Youtube. He has a collection of videos on rare and obscure firearms that is nothing short of impressive. Hope you are ready to waste a few hours falling down the black hole that is Youtube.
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You could buy a PSG1 here in Europe if you wanted to, there is one for sale right now for only 5K euro. I already poses a Keppeler KSV or else I might have bought it myself....
Yeah, yeah. I know what you're going to say. BUT...
For years I've asked and heard every excuse imaginable for why nobody wants to try to make reproductions of certain firearms, but seriously... Why is nobody making a repro of this?!!
...and the SVD...
... ... ...VSS Vintorez, Russian bullpup prototypes, on and on...
Yes, it would take some work. Yes, it would end up being hella expensive. -- So what? And the WA-2000 is the perfect example for my indignation. Keep it under $10K and you could still call it a bargain - relatively speaking. If you've been following InRange's interview series with Mac of HMG regarding their version of the StG-44, that is a great example / test-case on many levels: it takes someone with skill, knowledge, & especially passion (those first two unfortunately rule *me* out, at least for another decade or two); it takes time, research, and effort; you may have a hard limit to the interest within a niche market; and yet there is a huge amount of support and excitement around the project - even before a smoothly running prototype has been displayed! It also shows that people are more receptive to minor adjustments and/or improvements in the design than I would've thought. This could be encouraging news for a future / hypothetical WA-2000[R] project since, as Ian hinted above, no rifle is without flaws, and this rifle *was* a prototype-ish short-run. Plus there's my personal belief (based on some discussions and drawings I've seen from people smarter than I) that there are off the shelf parts currently available that could be used for the majority of a redux WA-2000-type-thing. It may end up being cheaper and easier than an SVD or other boom-sticks people like me have been asking for for years.
...so... Yeah. ...Get on that, builders. :-D