PPSH-41 - "Burp" Gun

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 2/3/20 | I McCollum

[w1n1]

Have you heard of the "Burp Gun"?, no not the Grease gun.
This Russian gun is rich with history. The sub-machinegun was used as a close-quarter gun during WWII by the Russians against the Germans.
The Russian PPSh-41 was known to many as the "Burp Gun" due to the sound it made when fired. With an incredibly high cycling rate of around 1,000 rounds per minute, this submachine gun is incredible.
The PPSH can fire from a stick magazine that holds 35 rounds or a drum magazine that holds 71 rounds. The light, recoiling cartridge allows for very controllable firing despite the high rate of fire. Misfeeding is likely to occur with more than about 65 rounds.

In addition to feed issues, the drum magazine is slower and more complicated to load with ammunition than the later 35-round box magazine that increasingly supplemented the drum after 1942. While holding fewer rounds, the box magazine does have the advantage of providing a superior hold for the supporting hand. Although the PPSh is equipped with a sliding bolt safety, the weapon's open-bolt design still presents a risk of accidental discharge if the gun is dropped on a hard surface. Read the rest of PPSH-41 burp gun.

[C19fan]

Amazing weapon. The Red Army would have units armed with nothing but PPSH-41s. The design was selected in peacetime with an eye to mass production as it was a simple design with 41 parts.

[READINABLUESTATE]

My father told me about the “burp” guns. The sound was very distinctive.

[NorseViking]

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[NorseViking]

[9422WMR]

Never liked the name as a kid, always thought of pp-ish!
Not a very manly name for a sub machine gun!!
MAC
MP-38
Tommy gun!
Uzi

Then there’s the pp-ish
LOL

[Chainmail]

For a little while, I had an NVA K-50 which is their version of the PPSh-41. A great little beast and fun to shoot but I never even thought of carrying it on patrol- distinctive sound and not supremely reliable: the reason I had it was that it failed it’s former owner.

[yarddog]

My Father was with the first American battalion to be sent into Berlin after the Russians captured it.

I once asked him what they thought of the Moisen Nagant. He said he never saw a Russian carrying a rifle, they were all carrying those SMGs.

[NFHale]

“...pp-ish!...”

The Russians pronounce it “Papa Shah”.

A friend of mine, who emigrated here from Russia, said the Russian infantrymen loved the thing.

“pistolet pulemyot Shpagina” - Shpagin’s Machine Pistol.

[Rio]

This is a burp gun:

[babble-on]

What is happening in those pictures?

[rlmorel]

"...the reason I had it was that it failed it’s former owner...

Glad to hear that, Chainmail!

[RayChuang88]

Indeed, the success of the PPSh 41 strongly inspired the design decision of the AK-47. I think the AK-47 would have been a somewhat different assault rifle design had there been more emphasis on accuracy like the AR-15 (M-16) became.

[NorseViking]

It is an anti-personnel setup of multiple ppshs assembled it a bomb bay for fly-by shooting. Also called ‘flaming hedgehog’.

[Chainmail]

Another story connected to the K-50: I went back to Vietnam in 2000 as part of a military tour group and about the third day, our guide took us to a museum in Danang. My wife and I were alone in part of the tour and I spotted several weapons in a open basket and one of them was a K-50.

I looked around for a guide or a curator or a guard to ask if I could handle it to show it to my wife - but no one was anywhere nearby.

So I picked it up and showed her how it worked and even opened up the receiver to show her bolt. spring and rubber buffer - and then a very horrified guard showed up!

He looked thunderstruck as I tried to explain things but he didn't know one word of English and my Vietnamese was limited to "hands up" and "come here" (neither of which seemed appropriate). I put the K-50 back into the bucket and the guard stayed with us until we left the museum.

No harm, no foul...I guess.

[Chainmail]

It’s actually pronounced “Pepasha” and is the abbreviation for Pistol-Pulyemet Shpagina - “Machine pistol of Shpagin” (the designer), you know, like Avtomat Kalishnakova (AK) .

[immadashell]

It is an anti-personnel setup of multiple ppshs assembled it a bomb bay for fly-by shooting. Also called ‘flaming hedgehog’.

I’d rather have the A-10 30mm rotary cannon.

[9422WMR]

Ok that’s cool! pepasha brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrip!!

[sport]

Whatever you say.

[NorseViking]

Wasn’t available in 1941.