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Shooting the SS-77: How Good is South Africa's GPMG? (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2023-10-14 12:00:02 +0000 UTCYesterday we looked at the history and mechanics of the South African Vektor SS-77 general purpose machine gun, and today I have it out at the range to do some shooting. It's really as nice of a gun as I had expected from taking it apart - controllable and comfortable to shoot. I would put this up against any of the best GPMGs in the world and I think it could hold it's own just fine...
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David Vinson
What a phenomenal weapon
If I remember correctly the Remington gun library (freedom group timeframe) had three of these in their inventory, all with original tags, chambered in 30-06, and they hadn’t been fired as far as I knew.
Mrgunsngear
Looks like a solid all around rate of fire
Guido Schriewer
I like the rate of fire. sounds much more like 600 but 900/min. nice. THAT looks a hell of less recoil than a mg3 would give one. hey a "soft" target would rather give up at the start of a belt of 7six2 not the end.
Bartholomew Fortwood
Post-embargo? They definitely would have had them lying around after Apartheid, could have off-loaded them to willing buyers
Kerwin Kerr
Ian, if the guns were under embargo how did DSA acquire them?
Paul Corpuz
The appearance of this machine gun looks a lot like my favorite gun… the FN Minimi. Speaking of the Minimi, we’re getting closer and closer to that highly requested episode, therefore the SS77, and other similar Minimi clones can just stand in and serve as the stepping stones for the Minimi.
