Hey guys, thanks for tuning in to another video on Forgotten Weapons.com. I'm Ian McCollum and today
I am up at Marstar in Canada taking a look at some interesting
firearms that they have, like this Polish PPS Model 43/52
So the Poles at the Radom plant manufactured a licensed copy of the Sudayev, the PPS-43
until 1942.
When they switched over and decided that they'd rather have a buttstock on it.
So the original Sudayev PPS-43's have this folding stock
It makes it much more transportable, a very compact little gun,
but it's not all that super great for shooting,
and I guess the Poles decided that they were willing to take the trade off, and have a better shooting gun-
easier to shoot effectively and a little less compact. So they put a wooden buttstock on, it's the 1953 pattern of the gun.
Otherwise it is internally identical to the standard PPS 43
So if you're interested in how those work take a look at the video
I already have on the PPS 43 and you'll see all about it. What we're gonna
do today is do a little bit of shooting with this and see just how much more effective it is with this wooden buttstock.
Same standard 35 round stick magazines,...
same open bolt operation as...
the PPS 43.
Bang bang bang
Bang bang
Bang Bang
Bang bang
Bang Bang
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang
Well, you know, honestly I'm a little bit torn.
I was expecting this to be a really nice controllable gun...
and it is, it certainly doesn't climb very much, the stock gives you a much better cheek rest or cheek weld
than the original PPS 43 folding stock, however the gun still kind of clatters quite a lot, bounces around on you.
If you compare it to something like a Finnish Suomi,
it's far less accurate and shootable, or less controllable I should say.
One of the best parts of these submachine guns aside from their cost if you're the guy who has to build
ten thousand of them, is this magazine. Sudayev designed a double stack double feed magazine that is very reliable,
it's easy to load, the magazine well on these guns supports the mag very nicely,
so they're super reliable, the magazines are totally interchangeable between guns, that was a big step up from the PPSH-41.
All right, so overall thoughts on this:
not quite as good as I was hoping for. Honestly -
I thought the stock would make more of a difference than it really did.
What you still have with this is kind of a clattery gun.
A lot of the recoil is transmitted back into the shooter -
there's not much of a buffer pad in the back of the receiver of these to stop the bolt when it impacts the back of
the receiver. And that's one of the signs or that's rather not one of the signs of one of the really top notch submachine guns.
What you ideally want is a gun that; eats a lot - as much as possible of the recoil, within its own mechanism, and
doesn't transfer it back to the shooter.
Or if it does, at least cushions it so the shooter gets either a continuous push, or a soft push instead of this
kind of clattery
repeated impact. What that does is it causes the sights to bounce around on you.
Can you be an extremely good shot with one of these?
Yeah, you can it's just gonna take a lot more practice than with something like a Suomi.
Interesting! Very cool to get to take a look at one of these. Here in the U.S - or back home in the U.S -
parts kits for these are fairly readily available.
But I don't think
hardly any of the guns came in this way, and no one that I'm aware of made a semi-auto version of this.
So very cool to get to take a look at this one
which is still live and intact in full auto up here at Marstar. If you are in the Canadian shooting community,
well Marstar is one of your great options for
firearms accessories, guns, supplies, all that sort of stuff, definitely make sure to check them out
and my thanks to them for letting me take a look at the gun and
stay tuned next time for more interesting submachine guns. Thanks for watching!