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Last weekend had a chance to play with a rare and very interesting toy - an APB silenced machine pistol, which belongs to Russian army =)
In fact, this is a silenced version of the 9x18 Stechkin APS machine pistole, made during early 1950s for Soviet army.
Back in 1970s and 1980s some of APS pistols were withdrawn from storage and reworked into silenced APB configuration, for use by Spetsnaz forces in Afghanistan, and, later, everywhere else.
This particular gun had an original silencer and a detachable wire shoulder stock, which replaced the clumsy holster-stock of APS vintage.
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I played with this pistol a little, disassembled and even reassembled it properly =)
Then I shoot it =)
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Thanks to heavy weight, low-recoiling 9x18 ammo, with recoil further abridged by the ported barrel (to lower velocity to below of sopeed of sound), and with the huge silencer acting as a muzzle brake and a barrel weight, the gun felt like .22 semiauto. i shoot it off-hand in single shots, then clipped on the shoulder stock and let it rip.
below are images of 10 rounds, fired in short bursts of 2 to 4 rounds.
The largest group of 4 holes at the top left was the first burst; the smaller ones are subsequent, shorter burtst. All shots were fired at 25 meters (about 30 yards). As you can see, the APB grouped better in full auto than some of makarov pistols at the same range in single shots.
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The level of sound of fire was on par with the .22LR, but of slightly different "tone".
Unfortunately, i had only few rounds of ammo, so the fun was way too sort, but in any way i thing i could share something...
and make my small revenge on all of you americans, who can own so many nice banging things that i could not
and a last image - comparison of the 8-round single-stack TT magazine with the 20-round double-stack APS/APB magazine
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Last weekend had a chance to play with a rare and very interesting toy - an APB silenced machine pistol, which belongs to Russian army =)
In fact, this is a silenced version of the 9x18 Stechkin APS machine pistole, made during early 1950s for Soviet army.
Back in 1970s and 1980s some of APS pistols were withdrawn from storage and reworked into silenced APB configuration, for use by Spetsnaz forces in Afghanistan, and, later, everywhere else.
This particular gun had an original silencer and a detachable wire shoulder stock, which replaced the clumsy holster-stock of APS vintage.
link to larger image
I played with this pistol a little, disassembled and even reassembled it properly =)
Then I shoot it =)
link to larger image
Thanks to heavy weight, low-recoiling 9x18 ammo, with recoil further abridged by the ported barrel (to lower velocity to below of sopeed of sound), and with the huge silencer acting as a muzzle brake and a barrel weight, the gun felt like .22 semiauto. i shoot it off-hand in single shots, then clipped on the shoulder stock and let it rip.
below are images of 10 rounds, fired in short bursts of 2 to 4 rounds.
The largest group of 4 holes at the top left was the first burst; the smaller ones are subsequent, shorter burtst. All shots were fired at 25 meters (about 30 yards). As you can see, the APB grouped better in full auto than some of makarov pistols at the same range in single shots.
link to larger image
link to larger image
The level of sound of fire was on par with the .22LR, but of slightly different "tone".
Unfortunately, i had only few rounds of ammo, so the fun was way too sort, but in any way i thing i could share something...
and make my small revenge on all of you americans, who can own so many nice banging things that i could not
and a last image - comparison of the 8-round single-stack TT magazine with the 20-round double-stack APS/APB magazine
link to larger image
