That Russian SMG thing...

[LLv34 Jarsci]

When I was in service I managed to get my hands on one Suomi SMG. Tried it at 150m distance , prone. Results weren´t spectacular.... Single fire : managed to hit the target assembly area which was about  1 m2. But when closed into 50m distance I managed to pump over 50% of my shots into the target reticle while firing on autofire, at least 10 shot bursts. And that was the first time I ever had fired any weapon on autofire.  If I had to fight in close quarters I know which weapon I would choose.. But when range is more than 75m and  targets are wearing some ballistic armour then 9mm SMG is useless without some special ammo.

[rshubert]

Originally posted by lazs2
shubie... I think you are mixing up the 9x18 makarov round with the more powerful tokerev one.   the 7.62x 25 is more potent than eitber of the weak 9mm rounds.

I would still go for the .45 acp with the grease gun or tommy gun.. to bad they didn't have the 50 round drum for the military thompsons like the civilian ones.

I liked shooting the grease gun a lot.  not as heavy as the thompson but seemed easier to control.

lazs

It's that lower cyclic rate combined with the near straight-line tock.  Another very controllable SMG in .45 is the Reising, which has a cyclic rate of about 500-550.  I can put an entire one-burst 20 round mag on an IPSC target at 50 yards.