[ Jatimatic at the Range ]
Hi guys, thanks for tuning in to another video on ForgottenWeapons.com.
I'm Ian McCollum, and I am very excited today
to have a Jatimatic PDW submachine gun out at the range. This is full-auto.
There are a handful of these that are semi-auto in the US, but not this one.
So a couple of quick things: we took a look at this gun
yesterday, it's history and how it was developed.
There is no stock, there never was a stock, and I don't have a shooting sling for it.
So the concept really was you carry this thing like this under a jacket.
And then whip it up, and do this sort of deal.
... I am vaguely concerned about the durability of the grip here
because I really don't want that to snap off and then shoot myself in the hand.
So I'm probably going to hang onto this thing by the magazine well, at least for a little while.
Note that I can't simply shoot it this way,
because this is actually your manual safety, and when this goes up it locks the bolt in place.
So with that all being said, 20 round magazine, this is 9 Parabellum.
If you can see it say "Fire" it is cocked and ready to go.
So, here we go.
Alright, this has a progressive trigger, a fairly stiff progressive trigger.
So semi-auto is nice and easy like that, and then ...
Mmm, why does this not want to fire full-auto?
I got a double out of it.
Alright. So I'm not a big fan of progressive triggers in general.
This one is frankly terrible.
You have to gank on that trigger so hard to get it to fire full-auto
that there's no possibility that you're going to hit anything more than about 5 yards away.
And I've ... probably got two rounds left, so let's just change mags now.
Alright, so.
That's pretty awful, frankly, as a practical thing.
... From the hip.
That front grip really kind of makes me a bit nervous.
One of the big things I was curious about on this gun is
it's got several built-in features to control muzzle climb, and ... do they actually work?
And frankly they kind of do work.
So, I don't actually have a target out here right now.
But I'm keeping these in ... like a 2 foot group at about 20 yards on the back of the berm,
which is not terrible. And it's not actually climbing all that much which is kind of impressive.
Here, if you want to take a look at the back berm while we're shooting.
The recoil control ... it's not so much recoil control because this kicks,
it has a rather sharp kick to it, but it doesn't climb and that's the important thing.
And that's why the barrel is sort of at a different angle than the receiver.
I got to tell you, like you're supposed to shoot it like this.
The pivot on this grip just does not inspire a lot of confidence,
and I don't want to give myself like KelTec thumb.
So I'm just going to keep holding this thing back here at the magazine well.
It is getting a little toasty, ...
something's transferring heat down into this rivet in particular.
You almost have to do like that '80s action movie grimace when you fire it,
just because the trigger pull is so heavy to engage full-auto.
Which maybe is the way it ought to be, like maybe you're better off
if it just doesn't ever want to fire full-auto
and you've just got semi to work with, because ...
I got one round left in there.
In conclusion, it's very easy to see why this never got any real traction,
why they only made a couple of hundred.
They tried to reintroduce the gun in the '90s, that didn't work any better.
And I get it: cool, great for Hollywood, kind of useless for everything else.
A big thanks to the Shooters Outpost Museum in Hooksett, New Hampshire,
for giving me the opportunity to shoot this.
Even if I did then proceed to really bad-mouth it all over the place.
Great museum, definitely check it out if you're ever up in the North East.
What was the line? It was like "Get me the 44-73s."
It's just really no good in full-auto.
It's just really not that good in semi-auto.
It's a shame, it's such a cool-looking gun, and ... just no.