I won’t bury the lede, the worst thing about the PSh-4 isn’t it’s looks. It had a special slide stop that’d lock open when you still had one round left for making a “deliberate last shot”. Yikes.
This 9x18 Makarov Ukrainian pistol is from the KB-ST (Design Bureau for Special Techniques). It had a number of other odd features, like two stage loading where the cartridge is pulled back from the magazine and put on a lifter, raised inline with the barrel & fed into the chamber. The lower trigger acted like the squeeze cocker on the HK P7 does, where you pull it before you pull the top one. It had two small gas pistons that are forced by gas pressure sideways from the frame and into locking recesses in the slide for locking the gun shut. And also it was given a ribbed aluminum barrel jacket. For some reason.
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Looks like the firearm equivalent of “AI generated hands”. I don’t know much about them, what is the deal with the “deliberate last shot”?
The way I see it there’s two schools of thought. Neither exactly optimistic.
Either:
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They anticipate you to fire the first 14 rounds, somewhat recklessly, and have it lock on the last round. Then you’d send the slide forward, now reminded you’ve only got one bullet, and just aim better than you did the last 14 times.
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It locks back on the last round so you have a way to make sure your enemy can’t capture you alive.
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A sidearm in war is, generally, a tool of last resort. If you are down to the last shot of your backup firearm, you have the option of denying the enemy of your unwilling company and information you posses.
Lede*
Thanks, it’s a good thing for me we don’t have a boneappleteeth community here.
Interesting article on this spelling issue. https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bury-the-lede-versus-lead
Tldr: lede is a newer spelling (70s) to distinguish it from lead which already has several meanings.
Oh, cool! TIL 🤩🙌🏽
*leans in and whispers to the gun* Shh don’t listen to them, you’re not ugly at all.
Giger’d for her pleasure
Giger’s guns where way more explicitly sexual but I must agree it has some Gigerness to it still.
