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USAS-12 at the Range (w/ the Fun Switch) (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2023-08-12 12:00:02 +0000 UTCThe USAS-12, made by Daewoo in South Korea, is one of the better box-fed shotguns available (I use that term loosely; there are not that many of them around). It was available as both a semiauto and a fully automatic model - although the semiautos were arbitrarily defined as Destructive Devices in 1994, and must now be registered as such. The fully automatic ones were already registered and were not impacted by that rule. While I have shot a semiauto USAS-12 before, I've not had the chance to try the full auto one...until today!
The USAS-12 is a really quite smooth and controllable shotgun in full auto. It has substantial recoil, of course (especially when running something like the full-power buckshot we used today), but it has a very long bolt travel and it's a heavy gun. The magazines are its Achilles' heel, as with most box-mag-fed shotguns. If you have one, stick to only high-quality magazines from Daewoo (the original manufacturer) if you want it to run well.
Thanks to DSA for giving me the chance to shoot this!
Comments
Charles Sears
Rimless shot shell? What would you use to headspace the cartridge? Shotgun chambers are basically a cylinder with a forcing cone well ahead of the front of the shell. That space ahead of the unfired shell is filled with the fold crimp or even the roll crimp material., so no case mouth headspacing unless you use a brass hull with card wad over shot sealing. If a rimless head was used it would be very easy for the whole shell to slide deep enough into standard chamber that the firing pin would never touch off the cartridge. I am afraid people ask for things without understanding basic physics. For rimless a bottlenecked brass case could be used where the rear third of the case was 10 ga. but after the powder the case would be 12 ga. So you could create a new series of shells like 10/12 ga., 12/16 ga., 16/20 ga. etc. However loading versatility would be restricted wad column wise.
Clifton Ballad
I for one will never fault Ian for a gun/magazine not cooperating for the end of video mag dump. I just hope DSA isnt mad about it LoL
Stargate Command adopted them for their off site teams.
Dan Kay
In the 90's I was on the Oregon NG state shooting team. Our Lt. Col had two of those! He tried to get the state to authorize them for combat shotgun events, but the state (and national shooting authority) wouldn't authorize them. Damn shame, fantastic weapons!
Thomas Batha
It would be nice to see the target results of say 5 rds full auto. Do they stay on a large (say 4'x10') horizontal target or are they all over the place?
Chairman
Is that the Max Payne shotgun?
Missed a great opportunity to film some carnage of whatever he could have set up as targets.
Fruitbat44
Armchair Operator time: The two preferred weapons for fighting at close-quarters are the shotgun & the submachine gun, so why not combine the two? As Ian said, easier said then done. Really fun video though.
David K. Jernigan
Fostech origin?
Ka-Shawnk! You are an American Treasure Ian!
Guido Schriewer
1986 swiss weapon magazin june. article reads as needlethin 556 had a hard time to stop truckassaults on embassies... 28rd drum mags in early days according to it. ok those mags are just too bulky tu carry enough. sure. but at a stationary or vehicle position where one could have enough loaded mags handy... fob's in danger to get overrun, checkpoints in some vehicle or vessel... would be happy to have that darn thing. better still some beltfed would be one outstanding tool. -- WHERE the heck did you get your hands on that? I wonder for how long daewoo did those.
Shawn McIver
That dirty harry transition was gold 😂
Infin1ty
Two videos in one day? It's not Christmas, but it certainly feels like it.
