Description
Item Description
Bryant Ridge Auction Company is pleased to present this amazing semi-automatic rifle today for a penny start auction, this is the Radom / Century Arms / Nodak Spud Tantal Sporter!
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SPECIFICATIONS:
Manufacturer: Radom / Century Arms / Nodak Spud
Model: Tantal Sporter
Serial: Y001529
Date of manufacture: 1993
Caliber: 5.45x39
Finish: Parkerized
Barrel Length: 19 1/4" to the end of the muzzle device
Optics/Sights: Winged protected post front with Adjustable tangent rear
Stock/Grips: Side folder wire metal stock with brown plastic pistol grip and handguard
Action: Semi-Auto
Markings: Standard / Left side of the receiver is stamped with a Polish Random Factory Circle 11 stamp with "1993 LZ4006". The bottom of the receiver is stamped "Century INT'L Arms Inc Tantal Sporter Cal 5.45x39 Nodak Spud LLC EDINA MN. USA SN:7001529". The bottom of the barrel is stamped "C.A.I. GEORGIA VT.".
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
The karabinek wzór 1988 (Carbine Model 1988) Tantal is a 5.45×39mm assault rifle designed and produced in Poland in the late 1980s. Design work on the new rifle officially began in 1984 at the government-owned Osrodek Badawczo-Rozwojowy (OBR) in the city of Radom at the request of the Polish Ministry of Defense (the OBR institute had already been studying a possible 5.45mm weapon since late 1980). In 1985, the weapon’s parameters were confirmed and factory tests were conducted by the end of that year. In 1986 the first batch of prototypes was fabricated for evaluation and qualification testing.
These early prototypes, initially designated wz. 1981, were modeled on the Soviet 7.62mm AKM assault rifle. As the weapon was intended to be able to launch rifle grenades, a newly designed, multi-functional muzzle device and a sturdier folding shoulder stock were used (the wire stock is a copy of the wire stock used on the East German MPi-KMS-72 rifle). Additionally, the wz. 81 was equipped with a mechanically limited burst fire mode, borrowed from the AKMS wz. 1980 prototype developed in the late 1970s by OBR.
By the end of 1987 the rifle was extensively overhauled and improved (among the changes made, a series of components were introduced that were meant to be interchangeable with the AK-74, including the bolt carrier, bolt, magazines and the burst fire mode was further refined). In January 1988, these product improved prototypes were again evaluated, and in 1989 the rifle was declared to have met its requirements, followed by an order for a pre-production batch, which was manufactured that same year. In 1990 the rifles were successfully evaluated and then transferred for final operational testing. In 1991 the rifle was introduced into service with the Polish Army as the 5,45 mm karabinek wz. 1988 (kbk wz. 88).
The weapon’s design was authored by the team of engineers at OBR in Radom, under the guidance of B. Szpaderski. The rifle was produced exclusively with a folding wire stock by the Lucznik Arms Factory in Radom.
Contents:
This example will ship with one magazine!
Return Policy:
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
Model: Tantal Sporter
Serial: Y001529
Date of manufacture: 1993
Caliber: 5.45x39
Finish: Parkerized
Barrel Length: 19 1/4" to the end of the muzzle device
Optics/Sights: Winged protected post front with Adjustable tangent rear
Stock/Grips: Side folder wire metal stock with brown plastic pistol grip and handguard
Action: Semi-Auto
Markings: Standard / Left side of the receiver is stamped with a Polish Random Factory Circle 11 stamp with "1993 LZ4006". The bottom of the receiver is stamped "Century INT'L Arms Inc Tantal Sporter Cal 5.45x39 Nodak Spud LLC EDINA MN. USA SN:7001529". The bottom of the barrel is stamped "C.A.I. GEORGIA VT.".
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
The karabinek wzór 1988 (Carbine Model 1988) Tantal is a 5.45×39mm assault rifle designed and produced in Poland in the late 1980s. Design work on the new rifle officially began in 1984 at the government-owned Osrodek Badawczo-Rozwojowy (OBR) in the city of Radom at the request of the Polish Ministry of Defense (the OBR institute had already been studying a possible 5.45mm weapon since late 1980). In 1985, the weapon’s parameters were confirmed and factory tests were conducted by the end of that year. In 1986 the first batch of prototypes was fabricated for evaluation and qualification testing.
These early prototypes, initially designated wz. 1981, were modeled on the Soviet 7.62mm AKM assault rifle. As the weapon was intended to be able to launch rifle grenades, a newly designed, multi-functional muzzle device and a sturdier folding shoulder stock were used (the wire stock is a copy of the wire stock used on the East German MPi-KMS-72 rifle). Additionally, the wz. 81 was equipped with a mechanically limited burst fire mode, borrowed from the AKMS wz. 1980 prototype developed in the late 1970s by OBR.
By the end of 1987 the rifle was extensively overhauled and improved (among the changes made, a series of components were introduced that were meant to be interchangeable with the AK-74, including the bolt carrier, bolt, magazines and the burst fire mode was further refined). In January 1988, these product improved prototypes were again evaluated, and in 1989 the rifle was declared to have met its requirements, followed by an order for a pre-production batch, which was manufactured that same year. In 1990 the rifles were successfully evaluated and then transferred for final operational testing. In 1991 the rifle was introduced into service with the Polish Army as the 5,45 mm karabinek wz. 1988 (kbk wz. 88).
The weapon’s design was authored by the team of engineers at OBR in Radom, under the guidance of B. Szpaderski. The rifle was produced exclusively with a folding wire stock by the Lucznik Arms Factory in Radom.
Contents:
This example will ship with one magazine!
Return Policy:
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
Shipping Details
Handgun Standard Shipping $50.00
Long Gun Standard Shipping $70.00
Any orders placed with magazines that are not compliant with your state, county, or city regulations will not ship with your order.
