hey guys thanks for tuning in to another
video on Forgotten weapons calm I'm in
the column and today we're taking a look
at actual shooting in a tactical sort of
tactical as close as we can get
environment with the Mac 1950 the pistol
at ultimate peak with their meals new
song seungheon the 1958 Ematic pistol
this was of course Frances standard army
or military handgun from asset option in
1950 in so it was ultimately really
replaced by the beretta 92 now these are
still in use in France I still carry
them although typically not in
front-line combat positions so what
we're out here doing today is what's
called DITA Steelworkers match up at the
Pima pistol Club twenty five stages of
kind of running gun pistol shooting all
steel targets no paper all fairly fast
tempo stuff so should be a lot of fun
and we'll see what sort of weirdness
what unique quirks come out about this
pistol ok she's already stand by
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one one time all right load should clear
all right so as you saw there I engage
the safety a couple times the safety
does not prevent the trigger from doing
anything on this all the safety does as
we discussed before is block the hammer
so what was happening was I dumped the
mags load a new mag and then I grabbed
this over hand and drop the slide and my
finger here grab the safety and flipped
it up as the slide went forward and it
happened twice and I realized it by the
second time but when you see me go to
shoot and I get a click I'm like oh I
must not have gotten around into the
chamber racket around goes flying out
because you can well has a mag safety
but you can drop the hammer with the
safety on
it just doesn't hit the primer so that's
what was happening there that's an
interesting thing that I've never had
happen on any other pistol designs to be
honest so the way to do this I'll have
to think about it the best way to to
wrap it is either to be very careful I
don't know that this would even be
better and see there just puts the
safety on if you're not not paying
attention to it
stand by
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shoot already
yep stand by that was better
shoot already yep all right stand by
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stand by
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all right pros and cons now I have to
say up front I am a bit of a Francophile
so I am biased in favor of this pistol I
did enjoy shooting it quite a bit but
there are definitely some problems that
I had with it one thing is that it does
give some hammer bite so we saw a little
bit of that earlier but not a lot but if
you grip it nice high like we tend to
these days you know modern pistol
technique and all it will give you some
hammer bite which is unpleasant what's
interesting to me I was expecting to get
kind of some trigger bite as well or
trigger slap when I was out just
blinking with this gun when I first got
it I came away with a sore trigger
finger there's a little bit of a gap
between the trigger and the trigger
guard and it's a pivoting trigger not a
straight horizontal traveling trigger so
when I was first shooting it I tended to
get not quite pinched but I don't know
just weird impact on the trigger finger
down here so I was anticipating that
here at the match today and for whatever
reason I had absolutely no trouble with
that it might have been a higher grip
that I was holding higher up on the
trigger whatever the reason that didn't
come through as an issue
what did come through as an issue was
the safety this is a hammer block for us
yeah I'm sorry a hammer block safety so
when the safety is engaged you can still
pull the trigger but the hammer only
goes this far which is not far enough to
actually fire rotating the safety down
allows it to - and as you saw right at
the very beginning when I went to rack
the gun I engage the safety and didn't
even realize it now that didn't happen
any of any subsequent times because
after that first time I was aware of it
from a competitive perspective the nine
round magazines are kind of a killer of
matches today are obviously designed
around fast mag changes and
high-capacity magazines and nine rounds
which isn't all that many and it doesn't
have anything like a fancy beveled
magazine well to aid loading it's kind
of a slow gun to reload kind of like
everything from the 40s and 50s so as a
service pistol I think it's not that bad
it's obviously not the best the beretta
92 that replaced this is very much
superior and I would choose for any
practical reason start Carroll
I would definitely rather have this than
one of the 1935 75 caliber this is C
hundred nine millimetre parabellum which
is a nice effective round the sights
aren't bad they're not fantastic but
especially putting them in context of
the night early 1950 sights fine the
trigger pull is not bad so pros and cons
to the gun you did single action only I
think we discussed that in the overview
video but I hope you guys enjoyed the
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