AUTOLOADING HUNTING RIFLE version ”VEPR-308” cal..308 Win

C E R T I F I C A T E СОК-95

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The certificate contains description of the rifle design, operation princi-ple, its technical characteristics, and as well the information that is neces-sary for right operation.

Design, operation principle, technical data of the optical sight are given in the certificate for optical sight.

Some design changes of the rifle may be not reflected in the certificate because the rifle is being improved constantly.

1 GENERAL INDICATIONS 1.1 Prior to service, it is necessary to get thoroughly acquainted with the

certificate and study the rifle design. It is necessary to pay a great attention to safety precautions.

1.2 For firing from the rifle hunting cartridges 7,62x51 modernized or (.308 Win) 7,62x51 should be used, except cartridges .308 Win Magnum.

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It is prohibited to use cartridges with average maximum operating pres-sure more than 3600 Bar (kg/cm²).

1.3 To avoid the striker breakage breakage, it is prohibited to make blank shots without any necessity.

1.4 To put the rifle into operation, it is necessary to depressive it that is to release the rifle, accessories and tools from the package, remove a protective lubricant, check up a complete set and make sure that the rifle is in proper or-der.

1.5 Upon depreservation the inhibited paper should be obliterated on the specialized firing grounds of the hard domestic waste materials.

CAUTION! IT IS NOT ALLOWED TO USE PAPER FOR FOLDING UP THE FOOD-STUFFS, PERSONAL TACKLES AND SO ON.

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2 PURPOSE

Autoloading hunting rifle version "VEPR-308" in .308 Win caliber for hunting cartridges 7,62x51 modernized and .308 Win (7,62x51) is designed for getting objects of animal world concerned to objects of hunting in the dis-tricts with temperate and cold climate when the t° of an ambient air is from -50 to +50° C.

Figure 1 - Autoloading hunting rifle version “VEPR-308” in .308 Win caliber, СОК-95

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3 TECHNICAL DATA

Caliber, mm Magazine capacity, cartridges Effective range, m Weight of rifle (without optical sight, magazine, accessories, cover with sling), kg, not exceeding: Overall dimensions (w/o flash absorber), mm, not exceed-ing: - length - width - height Barrel length, mm, not exceeding: Muzzle velocity, m/sec. for cartridge 7,62x51 modernized for cartridge .308 Win (7,62x51)

7,62 2, 3, 5 and 10

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4, 4,3, 4,4, 4,65

935,1035,1105,1215 75

200 420, 520, 590, 700

830 830

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4 STANDARD EQUIPMENT

No. Description Qn-ty * Remarks 1 Autoloading hunting rifle version “VEPR-308” in 308 Win

caliber (barrel length 520 mm, w/o sight), (СОК-95) or

Autoloading hunting rifle version “VEPR-308” in 308 Win caliber (barrel length 520 mm, with sight), (СОК-95-01) or

Autoloading hunting rifle version “VEPR-308” in 308 Win caliber (barrel length 420 mm, sight -on order),(СОК-95-02) or

Autoloading hunting rifle version “VEPR-308” in 308 Win caliber (barrel length 590 mm, w/o sight),(СОК-95С) or

Autoloading hunting rifle version “VEPR-308” in 308 Win caliber (barrel length 590 mm, with sight, (СОК-95 С-01) or

Autoloading hunting rifle version “VEPR-308” in 308 Win caliber (СОК-95-З)

Completed on customer

order

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To be continued

No. Description Qn-ty.* Remarks 2 Magazine 1 3 Scope mount 1 4 Cleaning rod 1 5 Accessories in case, including 1

5.1 Case body 1 5.2 Case cap 1 5.3 Screwdriver 1 5.4 Scourer 1 5.5 Drift 1 5.6 Bore brush 1 6 Autoloading hunting rifle version “VEPR-308” in .308 Win.

caliber. Certificate

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7 Cardboard box 1

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To be continied No. Description Qn-ty* Remarks

Articles delivered to order 8 Optical sight 9 Optical sight

Certificate 10 Small magazine

2-round 3-round 5-round

11 10-round magazine 12 Scope mount 13 Oiler 14 Sling 15 Cover 16 Bipod 17 Cover for mount with sight

* The column “Quantity” is filled up before packing in accordance with order.

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5 DESIGN AND PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION OF RIFLE

Autoloading hunting rifle version "VEPR-308" in .308 Win caliber for hunting cartridges 7,62x51 modernized and .308 Win (7,62x51) consists of the following assembly units (fig. 2):

There is a base for fastening the mount of the optical sight on the re-ceiver.

To improve the rifle durability and corrosion-resistance the barrel and the chamber are chrome-plated.

The rifle is reloaded automatically due to the energy of the powder gases, escaping from the barrel bore to the gas cylinder during firing and the energy of the return spring.

The barrel bore is locked by three locking lugs while the bolt turning around its axis by means of the sliding bolt support.

The trigger and firing mechanism of a hammer type makes it possible to fire a single shot and set the rifle at a safe.

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The iron sighting device and an optical sight permit to deliver an aimed fire at the ranges of up to 300 m.

The optical sight is mounted onto the bracket construction of which permits to fire with open sight without taking it off.

The principle of the rifle operation is described below: when the bolt carrier together with the bolt moves forward under the action of recoil spring, the cartridge from the magazine is being sent to the chamber. With turning of the bolt, the barrel bore is being locked, the hammer gets engaged with the trigger, the extractor springs behind the rim of the cartridge case.

When the trigger is pulled, the hammer released by the sear and pushed by its spring, rotates and hits the firing pin which strikes the car-tridge primer causing the fire.

During recoil of the bolt carrier together with bolt backwards under the action of powder gases, the barrel bore gets open, the case leaves the chamber and interacting with the reflector lug ejects from the

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receiver, the hammer turns about and gets engaged with sear. When re-leasing the trigger, the hammer is disengaged from the sear and the trigger hook catches it. When the trigger is pressed once again the cycle is re-peated.

6 SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

The rifle design provides safe functioning when using hunting cartridges

7,62x51 modernized and 308 Win (7,62x51) and its proper operation. To ensure the rifle safety, it is necessary to follow such safety precau-

tions: - always regard the rifle as if it is loaded; - never level the rifle at human targets or domestic animals; - do not lean upon the rifle; - remember that the firing range of the bullet is about 3 km long; - having taken the rifle into your hands make sure that there are no car-

tridges in the magazine and in the chamber, for this purpose detach the

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magazine, retract the bolt carrier enough to allow a visual check of the magazine and the cartridge chamber;

- prior to loading the rifle, check to see that the barrel bore and the chamber are free from strange objects;

- do not open the bolt after misfire till expiration of 5 seconds because of danger of the slow shot;

- always keep the safety of the rifle in “safe” position to avoid an acci-dental shot;

- unload the rifle when coming up to the populated area; - keep the rifle and cartridges separately from each other in the places

which are not accessible for children and other unauthorized persons; - do not use for firing home-made and self-equipped cartridges to avoid

the rifle destruction. When arising any delay during firing, proceed as follows: - detach the magazine; - remove the faulty cartridge and (or) cartridge-case from the receiver

and barrel; - retract the bolt carrier backwards and visually inspect the barrel bore;

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- remove foreign matter from the barrel bore; - assemble the rifle and check all the parts and assembly units for

proper operation without using live cartridges (is allowed to use dummy car-tridges);

- perform check of the rifle functioning during firing observing the oper-ating rules.

7 REPARATION AND OPERATION ORDER

7.1 To prepare the rifle for operation, proceed as follows: - wipe dry the barrel bore and the chamber when the lubricant and foul-

ing are available there; - inspect the optical sight. If soiling is detected on the surface of ocular

lens and the objective, remove it by the flannel cloth; - attach the sight to the rifle. For this aim, turn the scope mount handle

through 180°, so that the handle end is positioned in the direction of the ocular. Then fit the sight mount on the base lug of the receiver as far as it will go and turn the handle backwards.

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- check the tightness of the optical sight scope mount, rocking the sight with hand in the side direction. If play is available remove the handle latch and replace the handle in one tooth clockwise until the play of the sight is eliminated after that set the latch.

- check the tightness of the optical sight mount screws. Check the tightness of the swivel screw and tighten it in case of need.

Now the rifle is ready for fire. 7.2 The operation order 7.2.1 Engagement and disengagement of the safety lock 7.2.1.1 Engage the safety lock - shift the shield of the safety lock up-

wards into "Safe" position. The trigger is blocked. 7.2.1.2 Disengage the safety lock - shift the safety lock shield down-

wards into "Fire" position. 7.2.2 Loading the rifle and firing: - engage the safety lock; - press the magazine latch, moving downward and forward detach the

magazine from the rifle;

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- load the magazine with cartridges: guide the cartridges by turns under the magazine rims moving each until it rests upon the rear wall of the maga-zine;

- attach the loaded magazine to the rifle; - disengage the safety lock; - retract the moving parts all the way back and sharply release them. Set the iron sighting device into the position which conforms to the firing

range (the position "1" of the sight leaf clamp conforms to the range in 100 m, the position “2” and "3"- correspondingly to 200 and 300 m).

Take aim, press the trigger. To fire the next shot, release the trigger and then press it again. When the magazine is empty, the moving parts will remain in the fore-

most position. Change the magazine, retract the moving parts all the way back and re-

lease. Now the rifle is loaded and prepared for firing. 7.2.3 Unloading the rifle: - engage the safety lock; - detach the magazine;

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- disengage the safety lock; - retract the moving parts backwards and extract the cartridge from the

chamber; - move the moving parts into the front position; - press the trigger; - engage the safety lock; - release the magazine from the cartridges; - attach the magazine to the rifle. 8 MAINTENANCE

8.1 Maintenance in Service includes the following points: 8.1.1 Partial stripping Partial stripping is carried out for inspection, cleaning and lubrication af-

ter firing. To strip the rifle, proceed as follows: 1) make sure that the rifle is not loaded. For this purpose, detach the

magazine, disengage the safety lock, retract the moving parts by the carrier

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handle backwards, inspect the cartridge chamber. If the chamber is empty, send on the moving parts to the front position;

2) detach the optical sight (if it is set on the rifle) for this aim, turn the mount handle of the optical sight through 180° counter clockwise, by back-ward movement (in the direction of the butt) remove the sight from the re-ceiver base;

3) detach the receiver cover and recoil mechanism, for this aim take the rear part of the cover with the right hand and having depressed the recoil mechanism lug draw the cover upwards and by backward movement detach the cover from the rifle then detach the recoil mechanism.

4) detach the bolt carrier with bolt. For this purpose, it is necessary to retract the bolt carrier all the way back and by upward movement extract it together with bolt from the receiver guides;

5) detach the bolt from the bolt carrier. Holding the bolt with the bolt car-rier in the left hand, with the right hand turn the bolt by the head counter clockwise until the bolt rhomb is disengaged from the figured bolt carrier slot. Extract the bolt from the bolt carrier hole;

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6) detach the gas tube. For this purpose, it is necessary to press (in the direction from the barrel) by means of the case or without it pin pen of gas tube and turn the pin upwards. The forearm is removed only in case of ex-treme need for cleaning and repairs. For this purpose, using a screwdriver unscrew the sling swivel screw;

R E M A R K: In case of the tight detachment of the forearm or gas tube, it is recommended to use case body.

7) To strip the bolt, proceed as follows (fig.3): a) push out the firing pin lockpin by the drift and extract the firing pin,

bushing and firing pin spring from the bolt hole; b) push out the extractor pin by the drift; c) pressing the extractor hook with the thumb of the right hand and

holding it back with the fix finger, eject the extractor with spring from the bolt slot.

8) To assemble the bolt, proceed as follows: a) insert the extractor with spring into the bolt slot;

b) holding the bolt in the left hand put the head part of extractor to a support;

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1-firing pin; 2-bushing; 3- firing pin spring; 4-bolt; 5- firing pin lockpin; 6-ejector

with spring; 7- extractor pin. Figure 3 - Component parts of the bolt

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c) having pressed the extractor, insert the extractor pin into the hole under the guide lug of the bolt so that the pin cut is faced to the cylindrical part of the bolt; d) holding back the bolt with the leading lug upwards and with cylindri-cal part towards yourself, insert the firing pin by the big recess to the left into the bolt hole having assembled it beforehand with bushing and firing pin spring; e) from the side of the leading lug insert the firing pin lockpin into the bolt hole and move it as far as it will go.

R E M A R K: In case of the tight inserting the extractor pin into the hole, it is necessary to press the rear part of the extractor with the finger holding the bolt and pressing simultaneously the extractor. When disassembling and assembling the article NEVER APPLY extra forces to avoid the deformation of the parts and assemblies.

8.1.2 Cleaning and lubrication Cleaning of the rifle is performed with the help of the accessories, at-

tached to the rifle, not later than six hours after firing. When cleaning is im-possible, it is necessary to lubricate the barrel bore with cartridge chamber,

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the inner part of the gas chamber and the rod with rifle grease «РЖ» and as far as possible perform cleaning not later than 24 hours. In winter, cleaning is performed in the room where the t° of an ambient air is 20±5°C. Prior to cleaning the rifle in the room, it is necessary to get warm the rifle to the sur-roundings temperature in the room. To clean the barrel bore and the cham-ber use the clean, soft wiping material (rags, tow) free of sand and other hard parts. Cleaning is performed in the following order:

1 Lubricate the barrel bore and cartridge box by the bore brush, mois-tened in the rifle lubricant “РЖ”, “ВО”, “KPM”.

2 Wipe the barrel bore dry by the scourer with a wiping material wound tight round it.

3 Repeat the process of lubrication and cleaning for 8-10 times till full removal of the scale (is checked by inspection of the barrel bore).

4 After cleaning lubricate the barrel bore and the cartridge box with clean lubricant “РЖ”, “BO”, “KPM” (see the table 1).

To provide normal operation of the rifle, it is necessary to: - remove in time the scale from the gas chamber, gas tube and from the gas piston of the bolt carrier;

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Table 1 Lubricating materials

When the tem-perature from 273 to 223 K

(from 0 to -50°C)

When the tem-perature from 273 to 323 K

(from 0 to +50°C)

Places to be lubricated

Method of applying lubricating materials

Rifle lubricant “РЖ” Rifle lubricant “KPM”

Rifle lubricant “РЖ” or “BO” Rifle lubricant “KPM”

The barrel bore

The bolt, the bolt carrier, the guides of receiver, maga-zine

Lubricate the barrel bore by the slush brush from the side of muzzle part having before-hand moistened the slush brush in the rifle lubricant (2-3 double cleaning rod motions at full length of the barrel). Wipe the parts by rags moistened beforehand in the rifle lubricant and wrung.

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- check periodically the fastening screw of the swivel and in case of its release tighten it up. - remove the scale periodically from the follower surface and from the inner cavity of the magazine body, after that apply a thin layer of the lubri-cant on the friction surfaces of the magazine parts.

Perform lubrication depending on the temperature conditions according to the table 1. It is inadmissible getting thick of lubricant in the barrel bore under the firing pin, in the socket under the extractor and on the mainspring.

8.2 Zeroing the rifle with use of the open sight If necessary, adjustment of firing precision is performed by travel of the

foresight base or windage slide (if the travel of the windage slide is provided for construction) to the right-and-left and by rotation of foresight up-and-down.

When shifting the foresight base by 1 mm or the windage slide by one division the mean point of impact travels by 200 mm. One full turn of fore-sight moves the mean point of impact by 150 mm. Ranging is conducted at a distance of 100 m.

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8.3 Zeroing the rifle with use of the optical sight The optical sight is zeroed by firing at a range of 100 m, the drum

scales are set at division «0». In case of unsatisfactory results of test firing verify the optical sight, use the open sighting device, for which purpose: 1) set the slide of the open sighting device at division “1” of the sight leaf; 2) put the rifle on the rest and lay the rifle on the reference point of the target which is at the distance of 100 m; 3) check the position of the optical sight sighting sign relative to the aiming point, if they do not coincide, it is necessary to match them by rota-tion of knobs not shifting the rifle; 4) check the laying of sights by firing. If the deviation of hits from the aiming point is unsatisfactory, bring the corrections by rotation of knobs (one large division of knob scales should correspond 1 mil) then set the drum scales at division «0». For this aim, release carefully the screws for fasten-ing scales, coincide the division «0» of the deflection correction drum scales and the division «0» of the range drum scales with the stationary indicators

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on the sight body, tighten the screws for fastening scales. In that case, the rotation of knobs is not allowed. If it is necessary to zero the optical sight at the other ranges, zeroing should be performed by rotation of the range drum. Apply the marks which correspond to the ranges on the range scale against the indicator then the scale point meanings enter the table 2. Table 2

Range, m 100 200 300

Scale points Maintenance in storage To keep the rifle in a ready-to-fire condition it should be always cleaned

and lubricated with a thin layer of the rifle lubricant. The rifle should be stored in the dry heated premises without sharp fluc-

tuation of the temperature, far from heating devices and free of aggressive admixtures in the ambient air.

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To avoid appearance of the residual deformation the trigger should be pulled.

9 PRESERVATION

Date

Name of operation

Term of operation

Position, name,

signature

preserved 36 months packer

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10 PACKING CERTIFICATE

Autoloading hunting shotgun version “VEPR-308” in 308 Win caliber (conventional name СОК-95), factory No. _____________________ is packed at the “Molot-Oruzhie Ltd” in full compliance with the approved tech-nical documentation.

packer_________ _____________________ ______________________

position signature year, month, date

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11 ACCEPTANCE CERTIFICATE Autoloading hunting shotgun version “VEPR-308” in 308 Win (conven-

tional name СОК-95) factory No. ___________________ is manufactured and accepted in full compliance with the approved technical documentation and found fit for service, tested on safety and in conformity with safety re-quirements.

Manufacture date _______________________

Signature of person in charge of acceptance __________________

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CONTENTS

1 General Indications 3 2 Purpose 5 3 Technical Data 6 4 Standard Equipment 7 5 Design and Principle of Operation of Rifle 10 6 Safety Precautions 12 7 Preparation and Operation order 14 8 Maintenance 17 9 Preservation 27 10 Packing Certificate 28 11 Acceptance Certificate 29