[ Shooting the Stechkin APS ]
Hi guys, thanks for tuning in to another video on ForgottenWeapons.com.
I'm Ian McCollum, and thanks to Movie Armaments Group up in Canada,
I am here today getting a chance to do some actual shooting with a Stechkin machine pistol.
So, we're going to go ahead and start with this thing on the stock.
It should be reasonably controllable, it does have a nice rate-reducing mechanism in it.
I've got 20 round mags of 9x18 Makarov, plus the one empty one already in there.
Alright, let's see how this goes. We're on full-auto.
Alright, this will climb if you let it. I guess that shouldn't be surprising.
Short controlled bursts not too much of a problem,
I don't know that I would hit anything with anything past the first shot.
This is a 50 yard bay here, so I'm not really going to make many hits.
Alright, so it's a pleasant enough gun to shoot.
The shoulder stock means that the recoil is not that big a deal,
it's obviously a big heavy pistol in 9x18.
But I can totally see why the Soviet Union decided to basically phase this out of use
pretty quickly after they introduced it.
You're just not really going to hit anything with this.
This was intended as a personal defence weapon, and
if we compare it to other typical personal defence weapons
like, for example from that period in the '50s, you've got the M2 carbine in US service.
That M2 carbine is a far easier gun to hit with,
especially if you just drop it into semi-auto mode.
So speaking of which, let me do a couple of shots in semi-auto
and see how much easier that is to actually make hits with.
That's definitely easier. If you actually want to hit something with this,
I suppose it shouldn't be any surprise, semi-auto is the way to do it.
Of course, full-auto is the fun way. But ... even at a 50 yard range,
you're very quickly going to be throwing rounds over the berm in full-auto.
Alright, I have been told that real men don't need shoulder stocks,
which I interpret to mean: real men don't hit anything.
And I'm pretty sure I will entirely fulfil that
by not hitting anything with two Stechkins at the same time!
And there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 iPhone cameras filming this.
- You guys ready? - Ready.
- They're both full-auto.
Whoo!
Oh, ... I didn't hit nothing, I hit everything!
Probably not the target. I don't think that's in the Soviet manual.
Well, I think that pretty well wraps it up for the Stechkin.
... I've been very curious to shoot one of these,
and I don't know that I had really high expectations for it.
But I think if I did, they probably would have been let down a bit because
I'm still going with the Skorpion as the nicest of the ... stocked machine pistol type of guns.
If we're going to add in some things like the P90 or the MP7,
then we're getting a little closer to submachine gun territory.
But as far as comparing this against things like the PM63,
the ... Schnellfeuer and ... the Skorpion, the Skorpion is still the one that's coming out on top for me.
So hopefully you guys enjoyed the video.
Thanks for watching. And a big thanks to Movie Armaments Group for giving me the opportunity
to put a couple of magazines of ammo through their select-fire Stechkin.