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I've seen this scenario a few times, and I believe it's related to one of the two: #1 The weapon was initially created by a script and somehow bugs out, we were 3 guys using scripted AS50's and suddenly they all turned into SVD's. #2 Someone runs a script that replaces weapon X with weapon Y. Far stretched? Wutever, Overall I think all the weapons I've seen that encountered this bug of just becoming a completely different weapon were originally created by a script and not a legit spawn, so my guess is that you looted them from players that didn't obtain them legitly.

I just wanted to point out that there are servers about that don't have battleye enabled, yet they remain connected to DayZ official hive/database, this essentially allows anyone to connect to said servers, use whatever script they want and deck themselves out in the best gear, spawn vehicles to go from A to B, and then go back to a protected server and wreak havoc with their AS50's and L85's. Some official servers have been non battleye'd for many days, while others temporarily aren't protected for a few hours, I'm not sure if it's the admins that switch it off, or if there's some well designed hack that gets the job done. Either way, the traffic on these servers is very high, constantly people joining and leaving a few minutes later after they've spawned themselves a full inventory of awesomeness. As far as I know there is no risk unless you make it too obvious, and get caught by an admin, and yes, I've been using this method for a good week and all is well.