{"id":8233,"date":"2019-01-12T12:25:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T12:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/12\/shooting-the-stechkin-how-does-it-measure-up\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:52:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:52:40","slug":"shooting-the-stechkin-how-does-it-measure-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/12\/shooting-the-stechkin-how-does-it-measure-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting the Stechkin: How Does It Measure Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fn6LyFxlogE?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been curious to try shooting a Stechkin machine pistol for a while, and now thanks to Movie Armaments Group in Toronto, I have a chance to!<\/p>\n<p>I hate to be a downer, but my takeaway from this experience is that the Stechkin is little more than a range toy, at least in fully automatic. With the sights reciprocating back and forth on the slide, I found it impossible to maintain any sort of sight picture while firing. In semiauto it was fine, and nicely accurate as one would expect form a stocked pistol. But the automatic mode is really something for experts only &#8211; exactly the opposite of the men who were issued the Stechkin. <\/p>\n<p>That said&#8230;it is still pretty fun.<\/p>\n<p>Check out MAG on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/moviearmamentsgroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/instagram.com\/moviearmamentsgroup<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviearms.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.moviearms.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\nPO Box 87647<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85754<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons I have been curious to try shooting a Stechkin machine pistol for a while, and now thanks to Movie Armaments Group in Toronto, I have a chance to! I hate to be a downer, but my takeaway from this experience is that the Stechkin is little more than a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/12\/shooting-the-stechkin-how-does-it-measure-up\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shooting the Stechkin: How Does It Measure Up?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13907,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions\/13907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}