- Hey, guys, James again with TFB TV. As many of you know,
there is a de facto ban on Russian firearms
coming into the country, so I've got something that has
become somewhat of a rarity, and that is the Molot VEPR 12. This is a 12-gauge semi-automatic shotgun in a Kalashnikov pattern. It's being imported by the FIME Group, or rather it was imported
by the FIME Group, but now you're not gonna see any more coming into the country,
so this is kind of cool that they're out here
letting me shoot this gun. As you can see, this
comes from the factory in a 12-inch variance, so of
course, 18 inches being the, I guess you could say
legal limit for a shotgun. It needs to be 18 inches or
longer in order to buy one without having to get a tax stamp. This one, you can get it straight from the factory in this configuration. This hasn't been converted
by a third party. A lot of you guys that, if you remember when Saiga 12's first started coming into the country, I had
a converted Saiga 12. But you would get it, it would be in like a sporting shotgun configuration. It had the sporting stock,
and you would have to move the fire control group forward to put a pistol grip on there, gunsmithing to put a butt stock on there. It didn't have a last round hold open. It was a rock and lock magazine, so if there was a closed bolt and you didn't have that
last round bolt hold open, you really had to elbow
those magazines in. This Molot VEPR 12 already
comes with the butt stock, with the pistol grip, last
round automatic bolt hold open, or manual bold hold
open, and the best part, you have straight-insert magazines. So you saw, I just closed the bolt on it, straight insert, mag goes
directly into the shotgun. Now, I think this 12-inch model's gonna be a little bit of a wild lady to control. I'm gonna go ahead and take a few shots with double aught buck, which I regret. They asked me, they said, "Hey, James. "What do you like to
shoot out of a shotgun," and I said, "Double aught buck," and you know, I probably
should have done bird shot. (rifle clicks)
Woo. (gun bangs three times)
oh, that's not so bad. (gun bangs seven times)
Wooo! Guys, I gotta tell ya, for
that being double aught buck, and in this kind of configuration,
that's pretty manageable. I mean, it really shines whenever
you have a semi-automatic shotgun that's got a
substantial recoil system. The recoil reduction really shows through. And I gotta say, for this being a, not a wire-stock per se, but this folder stock that's similar
to what comes on the SAM7SF, it's not as uncomfortable
as I thought it would be. All right, so I'm gonna
load up a few more mags, we're gonna set up some targets, and we're gonna shoot this thing. (gun bangs repeatedly) Remember, these are not coming
into the country any more, so they're not gonna be cheap, so you're looking at $1699
MSRP for the Molot 12 in this NFA configuration,
but when you do the math, it's actually really
not that bad of a deal. Remember, if you buy the
standard configuration, you're probably looking at street price around a thousand bucks,
and then to do all the modifications, next thing you know, you're gonna be at or beyond $1699, and that's just the MSRP, so we'll see how it shakes out street price. You do get two Russian
magazines with this gun, an eight-round and a five-round. As you can see here, this is the 10-round. They're around 125 bucks,
which is more or less about the same price as the imported mags have always been, just
because, in my opinion, the American market really
hasn't done that good of a job with replicating the quality
of the original import mags, but they still demand a premium, especially now that they're
going to be a lot harder to get. So with an MSRP of 125
bucks, again, not cheap. All right, Pete old buddy. - The VEPR 12-04 is an SBS, a 12-gauge. You have the safety,
standard AK-style safety, you can use the finger or knuckle
to put it on safe or fire. It does have a last round bolt hold open, manually it's behind the magazine release, (rifle clicks)
or on the last round, once that locks back, drop down tab here, and you can use that to
release the bolt as well. You've got a pic rail, you
got a US-made muzzle break, now we do have a US-made gas puck. We have a trigger group on the
inside, an FM trigger group, our hand guard, our pistol grip. All those are US-made, so
it's fully 922R compliant. You've got a folding stock,
this is the takedown lever. Fold the butt stock, it locks
solid, and here's the release. Press down, it will release and lock back into place with
a rotating cheek rest. High and low positions for both sides. It will fire when folded. It will not come undone
until you reach inside, press down and left on
the lever, and open up. It has the pic rail, and it's also hinged, so any type of ball pic or red dot you wanna put on there,
it'll stay mounted. - And guys, when you're shooting 12-gauge, of course, you're talking
about a lot of power, so fortunately, the VEPR
12 has a 1.5 millimeter RPK stamp receiver, compared to the usual stamp receiver thickness
of one millimeter. So it's going to be a
little bit more robust, and it's gonna take a lot more abuse than the standard stamp receiver. Also, kind of funny, it's got
the RPK-style sights on it that go all way out to a thousand yards. If you're going to take
this gun and shoot something at a thousand yards with it, let me know, because I'll put you on TFB TV. So if your in the market for a top of the line NFA SBS 12-gauge, if you like the AK, if you
like the Ak-pattern shotguns, I'd give this gun a really hard look, and I wanna say thank you to FIME Group for letting me borrow this
and run the piss out of it out here in the Nevada desert, picked up all of our shell casings, all of our junk before we left, so you might see a lot of death and destruction in this video, but of course we left no trace. So I wanna say thank
you again to FIME Group, thank you to you guys for watching, subscribers, paid transporters, everybody, I will see you next week. (marching band music)
