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Tsar Cannon for special services
In the small Russian town of Tarusa on the Oka River, about two hours drive from Moscow, in a small one-storey building there is an amazing company "Tsar Cannon". Even if she put on the flow production of the very king-guns, more surprising, she would not. "Tsar Cannon" is known in the professional high-precision firing their rifles. The most accurate in Europe. Neither more nor less.
7 photos via berloga
Among the people who can easily get there from a distance of a kilometer, shall we say, in football, Vladislav Lobaev famous man. Almost the majority of the permanent judge of competitions on shooting long distance, the participants are prohibited to take pictures, he himself first impression of a man "of the structures." Although neither the army nor the other law enforcement agencies, as they say, "not involved". Nevertheless, about his past tells sparingly, saying that the shooting was carried away on a long distance - Benchrest, and when he began to shoot at the world championships, ran into problems with the materiel. I went to America, was on probation at the Speedy Gonzalez and Clay Spencer, returned to Russia, started the company "Tsar Cannon" was in the Federal Agency for Industry license to manufacture rifles, purchased in America for a few million dollars of high-precision equipment and this makes the best European rifle. It's simple. Just want to note that not every hobby brings to the world championships in precision shooting. Learn to make a rifle from Speedy Gonzales (not animated driver and the hero of a popular song) or Clay Spencer is not easier than the machines, for example, Mikhail Kalashnikov. Get a private license in Russia in general anyone except Wladyslaw it failed, as, indeed, and to bring in privately weapons factory, albeit small. Well, the question, where you can mingle with the holders of its rifles, Lobaev immediately sent to the Security Service of the President. And what's even more incredible, the service, heard the name Lobaeva, no comment was denied. In general, Biography Vladislav raises more questions than biography, say, Stirlitz. But the article is not about him, and about his rifle. That's about it, he can talk for hours.
Working with material
In theory, there are two models of rifles "Tsar Cannon" - OVL (hunting / experimental rifle Lobaeva) and DES (sniper / special rifle Lobaeva). Almost - countless as Lobaev makes rifles under the order. You can specify all: barrel length, caliber, bolt group, a bed, a step grooves, compensators, muzzle brake, etc. You can simply bring a bullet, and you will make it into this rifle bullet. Vladislav himself had not decode abbreviations. Just if it is written on the barrel "OVL" means an individual customer. If the "DES" - spetsstruktury.
"Tsar Cannon" only works with stainless steel, and more precisely - with marks 416R and 416T, if you is saying something. Other stainless steels, in fact, for the production of barrels and do not apply. "We only work with stainless steels, and not because with any other can not - says Lobaev. - Just a stainless steel has the required corrosion and wear resistance Stu. From the viewpoint of resource saving and performance - today the perfect material. " What are the difficulties of working with stainless steel? This high-alloy steel, it is harder than conventional barrel steel and requires more wear-resistant tools.
Steel usually American or German. In principle it would be possible to use domestic steel and - Chrysostom, for example, undertook a cook, but in very large quantities, which are "Tsar Cannon" simply unable to master. Cheaper imported.
By the way, if you see the trunk of the Russian stainless steel, it can only be "Tsar Cannon" - no other company stems from the metal does not. And even in Europe only two firms: the German Lothar Walther, and the Scottish Border Barrels. All other European barreled guns manufacturers make the most of srednelegirovannoj chrome-molybdenum steel.
Blanks
Steel enters a six-meter rods, which are cut into desired pieces. Initially blank pretty rough, so they bought from the allowance under the groove and grind on a lathe to the desired diameter of the ideal cylinder. The maximum length of trunks that can drill "Tsar Cannon" in his equipment - 95 cm. All equipment for production-tion the US that can be easily explained: in the United States a few hundred (!) Producers of precision shafts and rifles, and the industry developed as anywhere in the world. In addition, the art of making these rifles Vladislav learned it in America.
After harvesting grind to the desired diameter, they are inserted into the spindle drilling machine, which can simultaneously handle a pair of trunks. Use the special tool - drill deep drilling. The "Tsar Cannon" is practically the whole range of calibers: .22, .25, .270, .234 (6 mm), 7 mm, 6, 5 mm, .30 (7, 62 mm), .338 (8, 6 mm) and .408 (10 mm 3). 408th caliber - Lobaeva pride. "In Europe, we do it only. This is not the elephant walk, and for shooting at 2-3 km ", - adds Vladislav.
The main problem in this operation - withdrawal of the tool from the drilling axis. Wrestle with her choice of correct treatment regime (feed speed and rpm) and - most importantly - the right drill bit sharpening. This is generally a key operation - if ill sharpener, production can stop.
One drill without regrinding, depending on the steel grade, withstands 10 to 50 barrels. Set of drills pair costs $ 1500-2000, and with proper care they live virtually forever. Since Soviet times, the stories go that the best trunks - the first from the party, one of the bore drill. This is nonsense, says Vladislav Lobaev as drilling - albeit an important one, but preliminary, and not finishing the bore.
After drilling the barrel is marked. For example, 338 - caliber, then 323 - drill diameter, 330 - the diameter of the sweep, 3415 - Dorn, 12 - step and 75 - Technological batch number, under which the company can track the fate of a particular trunk. For example, if some trunk record a good shot and minimally responsive to the wind, you can restore the marking technology and make a "twin." From one party (1, 5-2 m) steel is 240-320 barrels.
Rifles from Lobaeva - fun is not cheap, though no alternative. "If our rifle shooting competition, all the rest are fighting for second place - categorically cuts Vladislav. - Ever since we started, no large events or for sniping or at Benchrest in Russia is not our rifle not win. " Indeed, if we take the 2008 European Championship on Benchrest two gold medals in the overall classification in the class of "heavy varmint" took novosibirets Igor Zhukov just because lobaevskoy rifle.
Prices of OVL in medium caliber 6, 5 mm - .308 start from 350 000 rub., And the most expensive and long-range 408-m caliber will cost not less 520 000 rubles. However, even if there is the money and the desire to rush to Tarusa should not - until the end of the year the company Lobaeva orders from individuals not taking as inundated with orders from the special forces. Like it or not, and Ultralong shooting - purely applied sport designed for testing of technologies that are used to further military and police structures. In the US, the same thing - the legend Benchrest basically make weapons are not for competition and for the security forces.
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7 photos via berloga
Among the people who can easily get there from a distance of a kilometer, shall we say, in football, Vladislav Lobaev famous man. Almost the majority of the permanent judge of competitions on shooting long distance, the participants are prohibited to take pictures, he himself first impression of a man "of the structures." Although neither the army nor the other law enforcement agencies, as they say, "not involved". Nevertheless, about his past tells sparingly, saying that the shooting was carried away on a long distance - Benchrest, and when he began to shoot at the world championships, ran into problems with the materiel. I went to America, was on probation at the Speedy Gonzalez and Clay Spencer, returned to Russia, started the company "Tsar Cannon" was in the Federal Agency for Industry license to manufacture rifles, purchased in America for a few million dollars of high-precision equipment and this makes the best European rifle. It's simple. Just want to note that not every hobby brings to the world championships in precision shooting. Learn to make a rifle from Speedy Gonzales (not animated driver and the hero of a popular song) or Clay Spencer is not easier than the machines, for example, Mikhail Kalashnikov. Get a private license in Russia in general anyone except Wladyslaw it failed, as, indeed, and to bring in privately weapons factory, albeit small. Well, the question, where you can mingle with the holders of its rifles, Lobaev immediately sent to the Security Service of the President. And what's even more incredible, the service, heard the name Lobaeva, no comment was denied. In general, Biography Vladislav raises more questions than biography, say, Stirlitz. But the article is not about him, and about his rifle. That's about it, he can talk for hours.
Working with material
In theory, there are two models of rifles "Tsar Cannon" - OVL (hunting / experimental rifle Lobaeva) and DES (sniper / special rifle Lobaeva). Almost - countless as Lobaev makes rifles under the order. You can specify all: barrel length, caliber, bolt group, a bed, a step grooves, compensators, muzzle brake, etc. You can simply bring a bullet, and you will make it into this rifle bullet. Vladislav himself had not decode abbreviations. Just if it is written on the barrel "OVL" means an individual customer. If the "DES" - spetsstruktury.
"Tsar Cannon" only works with stainless steel, and more precisely - with marks 416R and 416T, if you is saying something. Other stainless steels, in fact, for the production of barrels and do not apply. "We only work with stainless steels, and not because with any other can not - says Lobaev. - Just a stainless steel has the required corrosion and wear resistance Stu. From the viewpoint of resource saving and performance - today the perfect material. " What are the difficulties of working with stainless steel? This high-alloy steel, it is harder than conventional barrel steel and requires more wear-resistant tools.
Steel usually American or German. In principle it would be possible to use domestic steel and - Chrysostom, for example, undertook a cook, but in very large quantities, which are "Tsar Cannon" simply unable to master. Cheaper imported.
By the way, if you see the trunk of the Russian stainless steel, it can only be "Tsar Cannon" - no other company stems from the metal does not. And even in Europe only two firms: the German Lothar Walther, and the Scottish Border Barrels. All other European barreled guns manufacturers make the most of srednelegirovannoj chrome-molybdenum steel.
Blanks
Steel enters a six-meter rods, which are cut into desired pieces. Initially blank pretty rough, so they bought from the allowance under the groove and grind on a lathe to the desired diameter of the ideal cylinder. The maximum length of trunks that can drill "Tsar Cannon" in his equipment - 95 cm. All equipment for production-tion the US that can be easily explained: in the United States a few hundred (!) Producers of precision shafts and rifles, and the industry developed as anywhere in the world. In addition, the art of making these rifles Vladislav learned it in America.
After harvesting grind to the desired diameter, they are inserted into the spindle drilling machine, which can simultaneously handle a pair of trunks. Use the special tool - drill deep drilling. The "Tsar Cannon" is practically the whole range of calibers: .22, .25, .270, .234 (6 mm), 7 mm, 6, 5 mm, .30 (7, 62 mm), .338 (8, 6 mm) and .408 (10 mm 3). 408th caliber - Lobaeva pride. "In Europe, we do it only. This is not the elephant walk, and for shooting at 2-3 km ", - adds Vladislav.
The main problem in this operation - withdrawal of the tool from the drilling axis. Wrestle with her choice of correct treatment regime (feed speed and rpm) and - most importantly - the right drill bit sharpening. This is generally a key operation - if ill sharpener, production can stop.
One drill without regrinding, depending on the steel grade, withstands 10 to 50 barrels. Set of drills pair costs $ 1500-2000, and with proper care they live virtually forever. Since Soviet times, the stories go that the best trunks - the first from the party, one of the bore drill. This is nonsense, says Vladislav Lobaev as drilling - albeit an important one, but preliminary, and not finishing the bore.
After drilling the barrel is marked. For example, 338 - caliber, then 323 - drill diameter, 330 - the diameter of the sweep, 3415 - Dorn, 12 - step and 75 - Technological batch number, under which the company can track the fate of a particular trunk. For example, if some trunk record a good shot and minimally responsive to the wind, you can restore the marking technology and make a "twin." From one party (1, 5-2 m) steel is 240-320 barrels.
Rifles from Lobaeva - fun is not cheap, though no alternative. "If our rifle shooting competition, all the rest are fighting for second place - categorically cuts Vladislav. - Ever since we started, no large events or for sniping or at Benchrest in Russia is not our rifle not win. " Indeed, if we take the 2008 European Championship on Benchrest two gold medals in the overall classification in the class of "heavy varmint" took novosibirets Igor Zhukov just because lobaevskoy rifle.
Prices of OVL in medium caliber 6, 5 mm - .308 start from 350 000 rub., And the most expensive and long-range 408-m caliber will cost not less 520 000 rubles. However, even if there is the money and the desire to rush to Tarusa should not - until the end of the year the company Lobaeva orders from individuals not taking as inundated with orders from the special forces. Like it or not, and Ultralong shooting - purely applied sport designed for testing of technologies that are used to further military and police structures. In the US, the same thing - the legend Benchrest basically make weapons are not for competition and for the security forces.
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