[ SITES Spectre SMG at the Range ] Hi guys, thanks for tuning in to another
video on ForgottenWeapons.com. I'm Ian McCollum, and courtesy of DSA we are
out at the range today with a SITES Spectre. Now I did a video on this a while back
(actually a bunch of years ago) as a pistol, because most of these came
into the US as semi-automatic pistols. However, it really was originally
designed to be a submachine gun. And DSA in their reference collection
have one that is fully automatic with the top-folding shoulder
stock, which is really cool. I've never had a chance to shoot one of these,
but they seem like a fantastic submachine gun. Very compact, a nice quad-stack
magazine capacity, 9mm Parabellum. These were also brought in in .40 as pistols. But we are going to go ahead and do some
shooting with it, and I'm curious how it performs. So first off, right off the bat
we have this top folding stock. It is held in place just by a
... tension clamp right there, that clips over the vent shroud
on the front of the barrel. We are going to flip that back, and
then it unfolds not unlike an Uzi stock. So there's a little latch right here, I can
push that in to collapse the butt pad. And then you push in on the buttons
back here to lift the stock up. So there's our stock deployed. It's a little rattly loose, but
let's see how it actually shoots. I'm going to start with - that's it. I have a little baby magazine,
we'll start with that guy. And fire. Here we go. OK. Oh, I have to keep the selector
switch actually in the fire position. OK, so first impressions here.
It's a pretty fast submachine gun. It's fairly controllable. The stock is not
particularly comfortable on the cheek, but it's not painful, like the
edges on top are rounded. That's nice, it's not too bad to work with. I didn't really notice the wobbliness, I kind
of pushed everything down in tension and recoil held it there.
So that wasn't an issue. The selector switch absolutely
was an issue, because the recoil was bumping the selector here
halfway out of the fire position. There is a nice solid detent on safe,
there isn't really a solid good detent for fire. So I found myself having to pull
this back into the fire position. I do want to point out this is a cleverly
designed safety that I haven't seen before. I haven't seen something
like this before, where it is not a lever, it's like
this largish textured pad. And it really is pretty easy to
manipulate with the trigger finger. Because of that texturing,
I can push it forward more easily than other similar designs
that I've been used to. Magazine release, ... it looks like it's
down here, that's actually just the catch. To release the magazine you
push in inside the trigger guard which is not the greatest
design, but it does work. Now we've got a truly
properly-sized magazine for it. These by the way, are quite difficult
to load without a loading tool. You can do it, but it really
helps to have a magazine loader. So I'm shooting at probably about 25 yards,
at sort of a three-quarter size silhouette. And I'm able to make pretty decent
hits out of each burst. It's controllable. It vibrates a lot when you shoot it. It's not one of those early like first
generation World War One sub guns that just has this nice chunka
chunka chunka chunka chunka. Or even the high rate of fire ones
where the bolt doesn't impact the back of the receiver, where
they have a nice long bolt travel. Even if they're fast, those tend to
be gentle and easily controllable. This one is a little more
difficult to work with. It's not bad, but clearly the bolt is cycling all
the way back, hitting the end of the receiver. And you get a lot of vibration
out of the gun because of that. And it does make a 50 round
magazine empty pretty quickly. If you didn't watch my previous
video you might not notice, well, you might have noticed by now
that this is a closed bolt gun. Which is cool, it definitely makes for
much better single shot accuracy. Let's see, what else to mention? The sights. We have a rear notch sight here and
a pretty generic, typical front post. But that rear notch is rather small,
not a great sight picture. It hasn't been seriously hindering me
from making hits, but it's not that great. Alright, I guess I have
to do this like PDW style. I think it's kind of dumb, but it was
certainly how they sold some of their guns. These and MP5s and other things. So I will point out that the way they
designed the top-folding stock here, ... well obviously it doesn't
interfere with the ejection port. And your charging handle
is still perfectly accessible. It's almost like they put the stock
on there for a specific reason. Like, it's almost like the stock allows you to be
more controllable and actually hit your target. I really prefer it with the stock,
as you may have been able to tell. So, fun gun. A nice mixture
of pros and cons here. So a big thanks to DSA for giving me the opportunity
to bring this out to the range and try it out. Their owner says it is one of his very favourite
submachine guns, and I completely understand why. So we will round this out with our usual thing,
because I still have one full magazine. So let's see if I can hang onto
this through an entire mag dump. Although I suspect the selector
switch is going to bite me here, so we'll see how many
rounds it can go through before the recoil bumps
that back into safe. Ready? Hopefully you enjoyed the video.
Thanks for watching. Sweet! That's ... quite a lot of fun.
