hey guys thanks for tuning in to another
video on Forgotten weapons comm I'm Ian
McCallum and I'm up here in Canada
courtesy of Mar star today
taking a look at another interesting
submachine gun this is a Spanish a-star
models Z 70 B now this is very similar
mechanically to a gun that I took a look
at at Raqqa an auction house a little
while back which was a start Z 62 there
are only a couple fairly minor changes
between the guns primarily the trigger
mechanism so the 62 had a two-finger
progressive trigger where he'd pull the
top finger for semi-auto and the bottom
finger for full auto kind of like an
mg34 by 1970 they realized well okay
maybe that wasn't the greatest idea and
so they made a new version of the gun
where they went back to a standard
trigger and a standard selector switch
semi safe and full auto and that became
the star model 70 they also manufactured
the 70 primarily in nine millimetre
parabellum the 62 was primarily in
nine-millimeter largo it was used by the
Spanish military this was something they
were trying to export more and the
nine-millimeter Largo cartridge was
really going out of popularity by that
time not that it had ever been all that
popular outside of Spain in the first
place but I digress anyway if you want
to see the rest of the internals there's
some really slick elements to the bolt
and the firing system in this star
submachine gun so take a look at the
previous video to see all those details
what I want to do today is get out here
to actually do some shooting with one
because I mechanically speaking this is
a really excellent submachine gun a lot
better than you would expect given the
general American reputation of star but
this is the first time I've had a chance
to actually shoot one and I'm curious to
see if it lives up to what the mechanics
say it ought to be alright we'll try
some shooting with this thing folded up
in a minute but to get the feel of this
first I'm gonna extend the stock out
nine millimetre parabellum it is an open
bolt submachine gun of course and I'll
tell you what just right off the bat the
stock is kind of yeah it is a
stereotypical folding metal stock
not particularly
be comfortable so let's see how it
shoots all right that was semi-auto and
here's fall
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all right that's not bad this thing
actually is very soft shooting I was
expecting the stock to really be biting
into my cheek kind of impacting into my
face and it really doesn't it's a quite
comfortable gun to shoot the downside to
it is it climbs because this stock is
cantilever eight this is not a line of
recoil stock if it were up here then
you'd have a lot less muscle climb what
happens when I start shooting this is
the muscle really wants to start rising
and you have to control that so let's do
a couple more rounds
all right I said we were gonna do a
little bit of shooting with the stock
folded I did a little bit of background
research I was just curious what sort of
video is already out there on these guns
and what is out there includes a bunch
of what I believe are Spanish Marine
Commandos of some sort shooting this
from well with the stock folded from
about this position so why not let's
give that a try I think the idea is if
you Center this on your body and use
your whole body to index your aim well
maybe you could actually get some hits
it more than you know hand reach
distance let's find out well I'm kind of
hitting nothing but a big open well the
entirety of the berm here so let's do
this the effective way and rowdy ammo
yep
you
all right so thoughts on the star z7t it
likes to climb it's a very comfortable
gun except for its real desire to climb
on you and that's controllable so you
just kind of have to get used to really
intend a knowing that it's going to
start rising and keep a good firm grip
on the front pull it down as it starts
to climb and then you can do a pretty
good job holding something like this on
target and it is certainly an extremely
compact gun man you fold it up like this
that's super tiny and easy to carry
around so I can certainly see the
advantage the the appeal to it on that
level the finish is kind of cool it's
kind of like a sterling or bed liner in
the back of a pickup truck it hasn't
gotten all that hot yet the barrel
shroud seems to do a pretty good job of
protecting you know of keeping heat out
of this receiver tube a bunch more mags
and I'm sure it would get a little hot
but sitting in the Sun so far today
hasn't really been a problem for it that
seems like a pretty good finish on top
of all of the mechanical clever elements
to the design so well of course if you
want a star Z 70 you are completely out
of luck because star close down about 20
years ago and stop making these I think
these are actually still in service in
Spain in various places and I'm sure
you'll find them worldwide with people
that star sold them to this particular
one I found up here at Marsh star in
Canada thanks to them for letting me
play around with it definitely check
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