[ Skorpion Evo 3 A1 at the Range ]
Hi guys, thanks for tuning in to another video on ForgottenWeapons.com.
I'm Ian McCollum, and I am out here
on a nice brisk Czech morning in Uherský Brod by invitation of CZ,
and we're taking a look at some of CZ's cool guns.
And we're out at the range today with the Skorpion Evo 3 A1.
So this is the current iteration of the Skorpion,
which in the United States is ... sold as a semi-auto PCC.
But this was actually developed originally for the Czech military as a submachine gun.
And so we've got the submachine gun length, and the full-fun selector switch.
So I thought it'd be cool to bring this out, do some shooting with it,
and see how this handles as an actual military submachine gun.
It is basic standard 9mm Parabellum.
By the way, the magazines say "Subsonic" just because at some point someone had that in there.
This is just standard ammunition, so nothing fancy about it. It is a simple blowback mechanism.
We've moved the charging handle off to the left because I'm left-handed.
And all the other controls are nicely ambidextrous.
I am told this has a rather high rate of fire, let's find out.
Alright, well it has a very low rate of fire on semi-auto.
Dang, that is fast.
That's really nice.
That is a high rate of fire, and really controllable.
We have a steel plate, ... we have one at about 15 metres and one at about 25 or 30 metres,
and I'm able to keep complete bursts on the plate, which is really nice.
Alright. So I have to get used to the fact that there's a charging handle here.
So you can like HK slap it, but only if you've used the charging handle to lock the bolt open.
It locks open on the magazines, and then it has a regular bolt release.
So you can't slap it if the charging handle is already forward.
And you can't bolt release it if the charging handle is locked back.
It's really nice!
OK, so there's the downside, it runs out of ammo way too fast.
Honestly, normally what ... I would expect is it's simple blowback
so it's going to have more felt recoil to it, and more climb, than a delayed or locked action.
But it just actually kind of doesn't seem to, it's very controllable.
And then it fires from a closed bolt, so you get a good first shot.
It's not a match grade trigger, it's a perfectly adequate submachine gun trigger.
And just the fact that it is closed bolt means you don't have that initial "kerchunk"
that you typically get from open bolt, simple blowback submachine guns.
The fact that all of the controls are totally ambidextrous is really nice.
Like, I can shoot this right handed ...
almost as well as I can shoot it left-handed.
And all of the controls work just as well right-handed as left.
Optics mounting. Like, I think this is a serious contender for a modern, nice submachine gun.
Alright, so unfortunately I think CZ may have kind of spoiled me for the semi-auto Skorpions.
Like, I'm sure it's a nice semi-auto PCC,
but now I've got the full-auto experience, and that's really cool.
You guys of course are used to full-auto mag dumps
at the end of the video and I'm out of ammo.
But - ha-ha-hah, CZ is not the only company making guns that use Skorpion magazines.
Lots of other people have ... used the magazine,
because it is in fact a really good 9mm submachine gun magazine.
And so Magpul makes their PMAG D-50 with a Skorpion tower to it.
So a big thanks to CZ of course for giving me the opportunity out here at the range with this.
I have links to all of CZ's social media down in the description
if you're interested in seeing both their modern stuff like this.
And also some of the behind the scenes shots from the CZ factory,
and some of the cool historical stuff they have in their vault.
But you're not here for that, you are here of course for the end of video mag dump.
You ready?