Stechkin 9mm makarov full#
Speaking of the 20-round magazines, a magazine loader would be highly desirable, as loading a full 20-rounds without one requires quite a bit of effort. When the trigger is pulled it will continue firing until the 20-round magazines is empty. Unlike many machine pistols, on the APS, “full auto,” means full auto. The “PR” setting also acts as a de-cocker, allowing the hammer to fall safely if the switch is moved to this position when the hammer is cocked. The selector has three positions “PR” (safe), which requires the switch to be pushed all the way upwards to the 9 o’clock position “OD” (single-shot/semi-auto), which requires the switch to be rotated downward to about 6:30 o’clock, and “AVT” (full auto) which requires the switch to be rotated to about 3 o’clock.
The APS uses a blowback design and is select fire. × With the stock attached the APS can be used similar to a carbine on semi-automatic, increasing its practical accuracy. Basically, it was intended as a defensive weapon for those who were not riflemen. It was intended to be issued to vehicle operators, artillery crews, armored crews, radio operators, DShK heavy machine gun crews, some line officers and others who needed a weapon with more range and firepower than a pistol, but was more convenient to carry than a rifle. The mission of the APS was similar to that of today’s PDW (Personal Defense Weapon). Like the PM, the APS is chambered for the 9x18mm Makarov cartridge. The slide rails, extractor and take down procedure also owe a debt to the PM. After initial trials of the prototype APS machine pistol, it was redesigned to incorporate many features of the Makarov, including the silhouette, which makes it appear to be a PM on steroids. It was designed by Igor Yakovlevich Stechkin, an engineer at the Tula arsenal. Development of the APS took place at approximately the same time as the 9x18mm Makarov PM service pistol. There had actually been an experimental Soviet machine pistol designed by Fedor Vasilyevich Tokarev during the 1920s, but it had proven a dead end. The APS is fairly large double-action design which feeds from a 20-round detachable box magazine. I’ll discuss my reasons for preferring the APS later, but first let me give a bit of its history. I will grant, however, that the Russian Avtomatichekiy Pistolet Stechkina (APS or simply Stetchkin) is better than the other machine pistols I’ve used. I’ve had occasion to fire most of the machine pistols that have seen use during the 20 th and 21 st Century and have concluded that many are interesting, but few are especially effective. Even with the stock attached, most machine pistols are hard to control on full auto.Ĭonventional wisdom is that in most situations either a good combat handgun or a true submachine gun would be more effective.
The pistol is larger than a typical combat autoloader, perhaps with a greater magazine capacity. The holster stock is usually designed to be more effective as a shoulder stock than as a holster, normally being longer than a typical holster and fabricated of polymer or, in cases such as the Mauser 712 “Schnellfeuer”, in wood. Generally, it has a holster that also functions as a stock. In appearance it resembles a large pistol, but one capable of full-auto fire, though sometimes only in 3-shot bursts. It isn’t really a handgun and it isn’t really a submachine gun. The machine pistol is a platypus among weapons. OctoBy Leroy Thompson, Machine Guns & Tactics Editor
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