Strange Guns: Shevchenko PSH-4 Pistol

in #busy4 years ago (edited)

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Hello, my fellow bloggers! I am reviving this old, interesting post series of mine. I don't glorify war or armed violence but I am only interested in military tech and military history. It was one of my ambitions when I was young to be a defense analyst if I wasn't born as a person with disability.

The Shevchenko PSH-4 Pistol

Type: Double Action semiautomatic
Caliber(s): 9×18 Makarov
Weight: unloaded 900 g
Length: 172 mm
Barrel length: 142 mm
Magazine capacity: 15 rounds

--modernfirearms.net

The Shevchenko PSH-4 is a Ukrainian pistol design which features a variety of weird but interesting elements. Made during early 1990s, the Shevchenko is a 15-shot 9×18 copy of the Makarov gun that includes a two-stage loading system, more likely taken from the Gabbet-Fairfax “Mars” pistol of 1898.

It has a gas-operated locking system which was drawn from a German experimental design from the 2nd World War. And then, maybe its most laughable feature: a slide stop that made the slide open when there was one bullet left in the gun. The crazy purpose was to allow the shooter to make that “deliberate last shot”.

What the heck that means it was never explained. Maybe time to reload?

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Sources: https://modernfirearms.net/en/handguns/handguns-en/ukraine-semi-automatic-pistols/shevchenko-psh-eng/
https://thefiringline.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-579586-p-4.html


Check out my older, other "Strange Guns" posts.

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Strange Guns: The Duck's Foot Pistol
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Strange Guns: The Dardick Revolver
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Strange Guns: BTJ Derringer
Strange Guns: NeoStead 2000
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Strange Guns: Nambu Type 94 Pistol



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