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Yeger Armaments Volkodav Sporter Carbine

The Kuznyetski word Volkodav translates to Wolfhound in Trade, an accomplished stalker with ancestry in both polite society and the savage wilderness. Likewise this sporter carbine, produced by Yeger Armaments beginning in YE 42, is the weapon of a gentleman chambered in a particularly vicious caliber.

About the Yeger Armaments Volkodav Sporter Carbine

The Volkodav is designed to be a very simple, very economical and very reliable bolt-action rifle with a stubby barrel and a whole lot of stopping power. The second-hand and defaced nature of some components leads to them being guns that are very hard to pinpoint the exact origin of, as such they make great wetwork guns for shady individuals operating in and around Nepleslian territory.

Nomenclature Information

Production and classification information pertaining to this firearm.

  • Designer: Vasya Pupkin1)
  • Manufacturer: Yeger Armaments
  • Name: Yeger Armaments Volkodav Sporter Carbine/YA-VSC
  • Nomenclature: YA-W1-1A
  • Type: Chemical Projectile Propulsion
  • Role: Hunting/Sporter Carbine
  • Length: 22”/56cm
  • Weight: 5lbs/2kg

Appearance

The Volkodav is nothing too noteworthy or unexpected. It makes use of a composite polymer thumbhole-style sporter stock2), available in various colours due to the company sourcing raw materials from multiple suppliers, most commonly seen in a sickly shade of off-green. Barrels and bolts are often sourced from cheap knock-off brands or surplus military rifles that have their serial numbers filed off before being blued, with the rest of the receiver being made from stamped Durandium Alloy with a black coating of diacry-infused paint.

Overall the weapon has a fairly cheap and lightweight feel, though they are sturdy enough to get their intended job done, even if looking a little ugly in the process.

As of YE 43 the most common colour for Volkodav stocks began shifting from the initial sickly green to an arguably more pleasant shade of plum purple, swapping from cheap and recycled plastics to industry-standard polymers from more reliable sources.

Discharge Information

Information related to what happens each time the rifle is fired.

  • Muzzle Flash: Large gout of flame out the barrel’s end.
  • Retort: A loud, thunderous bang, followed by a supersonic crack when applicable.
  • Effective Range: 49 yards, 45 meters to 328 yards, 300 meters depending on ammunition
  • Rate of Fire: as fast as the user can cycle the bolt between shots.
  • Recoil: .45 Kendo has noticeably rough shove back into the shooter’s shoulder and can be made more pleasant with the use of a recoil pad, while .45 Gryzun is fairly mild and easily mitigated.

Ammunition

The Volkodav is chambered to accept 11.5×35 mm munitions.

Yeger Armaments .45 Gryzun, .45 Kendo Express Damage Quickchart
Type Purpose
Yeger Armaments .45 Gryzun Tier 1, Light Anti-Personnel
.45 Kendo Express Tier 2, Medium Anti-Personnel

Weapon Mechanisms

This section explains how various parts of the rifle function.

  • Firing Mechanism: The Volkodav is available exclusively in a right-handed, bolt-action configuration. The user must cycle the bolt after each shot to clear the chamber and seat the next round.
  • Loading: A small, ambidextrous magazine release button sits on either side of the rifle’s magazine well. When one and/or both are depressed they allow magazines to be easily removed and replaced as needed.
  • Firing Modes: When the safety is forward, the rifle will not fire, in the rear position the rifle is ready to fire.
  • Safety Mechanism: A small, two-position toggle to the right of the bolt’s rear.
  • Weapon Sight: A fixed and rather boxy rear sight lines up with a folding, hooded front sight.
  • Attachment Hard Points: A rail designed to take a variety of rifle optics is mounted just ahead of the Volkodav’s receiver, with a sling-mount located at the front and rear of the stock.

Other

The single-stack magazines designed for this rifle are made from cheap polymer with aluminium feed-lips, rather crudely designed things with staggered witness holes in the sides, but they get the job done and sit mostly flush with the rifle’s underside while doing so. The magazines appear to be knock-off versions of what the Zen .45 Kendo Special uses.

Variants of this firearm that have been crudely hacksawed down to a shorter length are often found in the hands of criminals, what with it being a rather cheap weapon with a lot of killing potential.

Pricing

The Yeger Armaments Volkodav Sporter carbine is available in most places guns, hunting and sporting supplies are sold across the sector. They are seen as very cheap and as such make for good throwaway guns for shadier folks, or an affordable yet decent first gun.

A single 5-shot magazine is included alongside the carbine, and the whole thing is usually shipped in a simple cardboard box with some cheap, partial weather-proofing packaging.

  • Yeger Armaments Volkodav Sporter Carbine: 125KS/250DA

Optional Attachments

A list of officially endorsed attachments for this firearm:

Ammunition

Out of the box the Volkodav is chambered to accept 11.5x35mm munitions, though may be easily converted to fire stubbier .45 caliber rounds.

.45 Kendo Express, Yeger Armaments .45 Gryzun Price Quickchart
Type Price (100 Round Box)
Yeger Armaments .45 Gryzun 25KS/50DA
.45 Kendo Express 50KS/100DA

OOC Notes

SirSkully created this article on 2020/12/26 23:16.

  • This article was approved on 1/2/2021 by Andrew in this thread.
Products & Items Database
Product Categoriesweapons: rifles
Product NameVolkodav Sporter Carbine
ManufacturerYeger Armaments
Price (KS)125.00 KS
DR v3 maxTier 2
Mass (kg)2 kg
2)
moulds taken from an outer-sector GP-1 Assault Rifle clone and modified
3)
in the chamber
4)
accepts Styrling Silver Special .45 Caliber-style magazines

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corp/yeger_armaments/volkodav_carbine.txt · Last modified: 2023/12/21 00:58 by 127.0.0.1