Talk:Walther WA 2000

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Scopeless Walther WA 2000 - .308 Winchester

Ironwood Designs SG-2000 (Shuster Gewehr) Custom .22 Long Rifle developed and sold by Ironwood Designs in San Jose, California. Originally photographed by MoviePropMaster2008. This is much more common than the original WA 2000 (and cost a lot less) and is many times confused with the real WA-2000 on the net.

Numbers

weren't there only around 200 of these made?

Quote from Wikipedia:

"Only 176 total rifles (15 of which are in the United States) were ever produced, and in two different variants. The two variants can be differentiated by the type of flash suppressor used: the first, the older model, uses a "can" type flash suppressor; whereas the second generation and newer model uses the more conventional "flash-hider/compensator" design. The second generation incorporated several changes improving the rifle's accuracy, making it more suited to its intended job." [1]

For such a rare gun they seem disproportionately present in films.

As with any other exotic weapon there is the "cool"/sci-fi factor. That, and given the rarity of the weapon, I am guessing a fair number of these weapons are replicas of some sort. --Charon68 13:52, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

In the early 1990s, the Japanese had a near perfect replica WA-2000 made out of aluminum. But it was also incredibly expensive and no one was importing it so good luck trying to get someone in Japan to buy it and ship it to you (the company didn't mail overseas). But people manage to get these as well. I've seen one and it seems perfect to my eyes. mpm

Is it a non-firing replica?

It's JAPAN! What do you think? Doh!

Japan has several companies that make consumer guns for export only.

If they are live guns they are NOT REPLICAs. Most of the time Replica refers to a non-firing gun that is NOT an airsoft or BB gun. Theatrical blank firing only guns can be replicas. The only time the word REPLICA is used for a live firing gun is for a modern day copy of a PRE-1898 firearm which has been out of production for generations, i.e. a modern copy of an Antique weapon. Firing replicas do not exist of modern firearms. Those are referred to as clones or copies. MoviePropMaster2008 07:22, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Ares Airsoft now makes an airsoft replica of the WA 2000.

Where do the different mag capacities come from? Everything I can find on the net says six only.

Different calibers maybe? Dunno. -SasquatchJim

Barrels.

Okay, so I know that a free-floated barrel increases accuracy, but how? It seems that only having the barrel attached to the receiver, if anything, would make it easier to shift out of place, reducing the accuracy overall. (Also, not that relevant to the first topic, but does the charging handle reciprocate?) Regards, Pyr0m4n14c (talk) 17:09, 1 August 2016 (EDT)

The charging handle is non-reciprocating. As for the free-floating barrel thing, I think it might have to do with the fact that a floating barrel won't experience as much shake as a not floating barrel since the only part that it (the barrel) is attached to is the receiver and nothing else. When a barrel is attached to multiple points (such as an AR-15 barrel being attached to an end cap at the end of the handguard) it will experience more shake since it's attached to more parts that, well, shake as the gun is firing.--AnActualAK47 (talk) 17:18, 1 August 2016 (EDT)

Thanks for the clarification. Pyr0m4n14c (talk) 17:16, 12 August 2016 (EDT)