The VZ-61 Skorpion - Spooky Czech SMG (2023)

Introduction

Whether it’s from 80’s action movies, Call of Duty, whatever, you all know about the infamous Skorpion. Well today we’re going to deep dive into what it really is.

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What is up you sexy, YouTube, mother lovers now, it's, getting closer to winter time, which means guys it's time to break out the jackets out of the closet.

And we all know what that means it's the season of carrying bigger guns than you.

Normally would like, for example, if you normally carry something smaller like a PPK or a Glock 43 or something like that, you can now get away with something like a Beretta or a Glock 19, or if you're like me and you already carry a glock 19.

You get to carry something just a little bit bigger like, for example, maybe a bz 61, Scorpion, submachine gun.

That's, right today.

We are going to be playing with the Scorpion.

Now is this a practical carry gun wrong question is this a [ __, ], cool carry gun.

Right question.

Foreign thing is so sporadic with its [ __.

] burst.

It was just I hit like two On Target.

And the rest were like on the left and right side.

So this is the vz61 aka, the Scorpion, aka, the score aka, the the club as this was known as the club.

Submachine gun from GoldenEye, of course, that version had the stock folded because I think that was back when game developers did not give three-fifths of a [ __ ].

And they just saw a photo of a gun and included it.

Not knowing what any of the components did like this one popping out in becoming a stock.

However, I use the term stock, pretty Loosely.

Um.

This is bent.

[, __, ], coat, hanger, [, __, ] and not in the normal way that makes your guns fun.

This stock is made for, um I, don't I, don't know who this is made for, but I know, they weren't shaped like a person it's, uh.

So it's it's got a bit of a downward can't to it there, which really just wants to slide off of your shoulder and uh, it just it's it's, awful it's, actually a little easier to use.

If you just try to hook it over your shoulder, you get a little bit better sight picture that way, but uh, yeah, I mean, it's, it is certainly something to brace the gun against your body with, but I would not consider this to be a good stock by any means it's better than nothing great superlative.

But yeah, Back to Basics.

The vz61 is a submachine gun chambered in 32 ACP because nine millimeter is [.

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Guess, the one out of the body I'll make some jokes about 32 ACP, but it is a Browning cartridge.

So it deserves some respect, yeah, it's designated, the vz61 because it was designed in Czechoslovakia in 1961.

It was made to be kind of a machine pistol that was, you know, very small, very, very Compact and I think they actually accomplished that pretty well for what this is I don't know how you could condense a gun into something smaller than this that still retains the same function, especially for being direct low back.

This is impressively small that's.

What she said, the compactness, of course, does come at a small cost.

Of course, with direct blowback.

There is a bit of a bolt weight calculation that you need to do to be able to determine the the maximum size round you're allowed to use, which is why this one ended up in 32 ACP all right kids.

You know what time it is clobber in time.

I'm gonna [ __ ] kill, yes, of course, as my subscribers know, it is white claw penetration test time.

So we're going to see what kind of power you can get out of the mighty Tiny But, Mighty, 32 ACP, Tiny, But, Mighty, I'm, sure a couple of you guys can relate all right.

So we've got her on semi just going to put one round into this claw.

Oh, keeping State secrets in three two one.

Well, that'll do it? Uh.

So this man, he uh, really.

The state really does not like him.

He never even got to see Gulag not that.

He was missing a lot.

You do not want to go to Gulag.

But now for what the Scorpion would actually be useful for, which is multiple enemies of the state at very awkwardly close distance, lemonade stand that if you'll be capitalist pigs, have a nice day all right so basic controls here.

We have our selector on this side here.

This is your semi.

This is your safe.

And this is your full auto on this particular gun.

We have our semi designated with a zero and our Auto designated with a one because, uh, it is actually worth pointing out.

This is actually a conversion that was done to a semi-auto receiver, which is why that probably is the way that is your magazine.

Release is this button right here just press that.

And your magazine comes right out.

Your stock is retained by these little sheet metal, ears right here on the front site.

So all you have to do is just kind of push that up a little bit I like to pop it out, because it just kind of folds over.

And it locks here in the rear to be able to fold that back up again, you pinch this right here.

And this arm of the stock unlocks, and you can fold it back down where it is again, captured by your front side.

But it is really just fun to do that.

And as our friend clay knows, sometimes the stock just comes out when you're not expecting it, but your charging handle is actually on both sides here.

So you just kind of pinch up there, and we actually do have a last round bolt hold open on this gun.

So you see this is completely clear, you just pull this back a little bit.

And then the bolt goes back forward.

Now of course that won't trigger, if you don't have a magazine in it, but we do what we do have is a bolt hole open here.

So we pull this back press this in.

And the bolt stays open.

You can see it's that little button, right? There we're going to get into the nerdy guts in a bit.

But all in all, this is a nice little, compact machine pistol or some machine gun.

Now, one of the other things that the vz61 would have been kind of in the same class as so to speak I, guess when it comes to Spetsnaz KGB Weaponry that kind of thing sub machine guns, you know, something you'd have in the back of a van if you were I, don't know, hypothetically stopping said, van and executing political enemies would have been the AKs, 74u, Believe, It or Not.

These were technically classified, the Russians called them.

Submachine.

Guns, they're, not pistol calibers.

So it doesn't really meet our Western definition, but that's what they were called not quite as conducive to jacket carry as maybe the Scorpion, which is why I guess a lot of those would have been popular for very low profile.

Don't scare the hose kind of operations.

This aks-74u or krinkov in particular was actually moaned To Us by gunspot.

Now, I already have a crank.

So why'd they send us this one? Well, I'm glad you asked hypothetical viewer aside from being a really cool sponsor of the channel, which we would again like to thank them very much for continuing to be gun spots, where you can pick up all sorts of cool stuff like this, which is actually a crank that was their present onset of Red Dawn.

Yeah, that Red Dawn, not the new Chris.

Hemsworth, [, __, ], Drake, where's, the minigun.

But yeah, they actually had the paperwork and everything for this.

Uh, this gun in its original shape, whatever that was is one of the serial numbers and make model everything that is listed in the prop Department sheet for the 1984, Red Dawn movie, which makes this super [, __, ], cool and uh, I get to shoot it.

Oh man.

History, [, __, ], sometimes and so does gun spot.

So thank you very much for sending this out to us and it's a pleasure to be able to demo it to all of you folk.

But yeah, while the AKs 74us, our baller as [ __ ].

And one of my favorite AKs, just because of how sexy they look they're.

You know, not always the most practical like I said, hiding that not exactly an easy thing to do much easier than a standard AK.

But if you you're talking about something like the Scorpion that is designed to be carried very Incognito it's, the obvious choice unless you needed to penetrate armor or do literally anything rifle rounds are good at because 32 ACP is aim for the legs.

It is worth noting.

They do have 10 round magazines for the Scorpion as well.

This is for use inside of the leather holster that it also came with.

Yes.

They did make a holster for a machine pistol.

But yeah, 10 round magazines, useful.

Just in case, your automatic machine pistol is in California it'll, at least save you one felony.

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So now let's get all up in them nerdy, guts.

So on this side, we will push our pin out.

And this is actually a captured pin.

So that stays in the gun, but the top hinges open like so we'll, go ahead and remove our magazine don't need that right now.

So as you can see here, we now have access to our bolt and spring assembly here.

So now that we've lined it up with these grooves, we can pull out the charging handle little knobs there.

And now we have access to our bolt and recoil spring assembly.

So this is where the magic happens.

So our recoil spring assembly is these two rods that actually are going through Loops here in the front of the bolt and the recoil springs, sit behind those little metal Loops that keep it in I, keep it retained.

So that is what it pushes on when the gun is cycling on top of that.

You got your firing pin back here, which is what the hammer strikes when the gun is fired.

Now what is also really neat is what I guess has done as a move to try to milk as much mass out of the bolt as possible is instead of ending it right here, which is where you would need to end it for the bolt face and such this is technically all the length that you need for the bolt because this is where the cartridge sits while the gun is operating.

You have your extractor up top here.

And this is where your firing pin protrudes and Strikes.

The back of the round right? The rest of the bolt up here actually goes around the barrel inside the for lack of a better word, the upper roof of the gun.

So it sleeves over and around the barrel.

This is just to try to get a little bit more mass out of it, which is also cool because that's why that cutout is there because that space this extra piece of Bolt is forward that would cause it to jam while it's ejecting, you know, spent casings.

So they just cut a [ __ ] hole in it.

So while this gun is cycling and rounds are actually being ejected out of the top of the gun, they are actually being ejected through a moving Bolt, completely some malfunctions, [, __ ].

So now I think we can put our bolt away so I'll just find that Groove here.

So we put our charging handle knobs back I, don't know, if that's the technical term, but that's, the term I'm going to use today, that'll make it work better.

And there we go.

And as you can see as it's operating through the gun as long as it's, not all the way to the rear where this little cutout is, they are fully retained to the bolt.

So you don't have to worry about them popping out while it Cycles now on the the inside of the lower here, we've got all of the components.

I.

Guess you'd normally find in a hammer fire gun.

We've got our Hammer which on the trigger is pulled camera goes forward, got your disconnector a couple components.

You wouldn't normally find like this here, for example, this is our uh, our fast Sear, because this is a fast boy.

And he was a skater boy, she said, see you later boy now in the back here, we have what would be our rate reducer.

So the vz61 has a cool mechanism that basically uses a plunger system back here to try to drag on the bolt kind of lock the bolt a little further to the rear for just slightly longer slowing down the cyclic rate, because this is a fast [, __, ] so fast.

In fact, one of my favorite little facts about the VZ 61 is one of the things that it's kind of known for is that out of a 20 round magazine full auto on this.

You will finish the entire mag a good half second before the first piece of brass hits the ground, which gives it a very unique sound, it's like the Czech, golden shower, I'm, not sure if that's on Urban Dictionary or not, but I assume that it wouldn't be my definition, the Europeans really like their P play.

What I'm really excited about that I also get to show off for you guys is this is just kind of a rare treat.

This is an actual Yugoslavian scorpion suppressor.

This is actually made specifically for the bz61, or as the the yugoslavians called it for them.

Their designation was the m84 I believe because while this was used for all sorts of cool, KGB spec, snazz kind of stuff jumping out of Vans and schwacking political enemies.

The Hugo slob saw that and thought, well, that's pretty dope.

We like doing that too.

So we'd like one for our own.

So why I keep finger [ __ ].

This little thread at the end is that this actually works at on kind of like a collet system and I am actually super excited to show this to you because this is a real Yugoslavian made or actually well, technically Serbia now Serbian made, um scorpion suppressors.

This is this is really neat.

So what this is is kind of like a collet system so there's a little collar here.

So by threading this, you actually tighten that.

And when you unthread it, you see it kind of loosens its grip it's, almost like, actually, if you if you have like an electrical drill or something like that, it's, a similar similar concept for uh for retaining, your your bits.

So what this does is that there is a small collar right here, uh, really, really not pronounced.

But it is there on the end of the barrel.

And what happens is you loosen this up all the way push it on give it a little bit of rearward pressure there here that nice positive snap.

And then you just thread this [, __ ] on until she good and tight and your suppressor is now attached.

So now I'm going to go shoot this into my backyard.

I'm just kidding, uh, roll.

The range footage.

We'll shoot one round, my ear is still on.

And if I think I can take them off kind of get a feel for it it's, not that loud, but it's, uh, you know, it's a little spicy.

So let's see let's, see how she sounds, please, no baffle strikes.

Okay that actually doesn't sound too bad at all I'm.

Gonna take the ears off that is quite easily hearing safe.

Okay? Well, this is quite easily hearing safe to me.

I have crippling tinnitus if I don't sleep with the fan on high.

It sounds like the Call of Duty flashbang animation.

So hearing safe to me might not be hearing safe to you.

But it is remarkably quiet.

Actually.

So now that you guys have had a chance to really kind of get familiarized with the VZ 61.

What do you think of course, it's an iconic submachine gun of history in movies and such, but would you rock? One that's the question, this is one you guys have been asking for for a while.

So if there's any other videos that you'd like to see go ahead and leave those down in the comments, it's bad for my mental health, but I do actually read them.

But that's, all we've got for the ranch for you guys today, I, appreciate you watching to the end.

And as always I'll, see, you sexy, YouTube mother lovers in the next video.

Thanks.

Or if you're like me and you typically carry a glock 19.

Anyway, you can carry something like, oh, [, __, ], something that gets caught in your jacket, howdy blooper people.

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