I used to have one of those. Getting rid of it is one of my deepest regrets. It was made of plastic, and I was about five. I was also a member of the A-Team.
@@stephen9381 not sure what you mean? The Uzzi was of simplistic design with one moving part, (apart from the trigger group) which tended to slide backward and forward in the receiver with boring regularity as long as it was lubricated and not stuffed full of sand or other unwanted material, which would cause just about any firearm I know of to have some reliability issues, therefore you can hardly blame the Uzzi for it. Some magazine related stoppages occurred but it was avoidable as long as old worn magazines were not used. Some ammo-related stoppages did occur as well, but the SMG itself never really let me down.
@@BatCaveOz the gun itself never let me down. Magazine-, ammo- , fouling related stoppages happened, but that would happen with any gun, not the Uzzi's fault.
Hmmm, has this person actually WORKED with german made things? How about wonderfully engineered & manufactured....MISTAKES! Try telling your german company rep they used the wrong part! And that's not to mention the Audi, BMW, Mercedes & Porsche owners who all now the truth about "German quality" & the price they pay for it.
The Uzi was my service weapon during my time as a tank gunner at the Bundeswehr 30 years ago. I liked it a lot - smaller and lighter than the G3, much less recoil, accurate up to 150 meters. We still used the G3 for guard duty until someone decided that each guard detail should use its service weapon. From then on we went on guard duty with the Uzi - but for security reasons we got told to keep the mags in our pockets and not to charge the gun unless under threat. We were joking a lot about this -like challenging any intruders with "Freeze and don't move until I have put the mag in place!" 🤭
cant you carry it with the mag, uncocked? id imagine cocking can be done faster than reloading from a mag in your pocket, and an uncocked open bolt should be pretty safe.
@@uffia.6817 I understand, I'm just curious about the mechanical aspect. I guess that maybe the safety can not lock the bolt in place while uncocked, but only lock it in the cocked position? That would mean when dropping the gun, the bolt could move just enough to chamber and fire a round without ever getting to the cocked and locked position. Or maybe they assumed that, if they allow the magazine inside, there will always be a dumbass who still cocks the gun.
@@Almostbakerzero Sorry, I don't know the answer, as a mere conscript I got taught to fire and clean various weapons but little about their intrinsic mechanics. When cleaning we were not allowed to dismantle certain sub-assemblies like triggers, safety or breechblock, that was the job of specialists.
I had the great pleasure of attending an armourers course in Israel in 1984 on all IMI weapons and was taught the technical aspects of the UZI by the designer of the GALIL rifle Yisrael Galil... Vic
And yelling "If you're interested in getting yourself one, there are actually several of them in the upcoming James D. Julia/Rock Island auction house auction. Of course, they are fully transferable." at the end of the showdown. xP
i went to a "sounds of music" play in South Africa a few years back, when the nazi germans came in to the show they were holding UZIs, you can imagine how hard i was holding the laughter.
🤣😂 Hilarious! Probably went of the Heads of 99% of the audience who wouldn't have blinked an eye! There are Nazi era Coins with the Star of David Stamped on them! That made me question history!!👍😉
wow so a local Play house making a Musical about ANC , I mean Nazis running away Didn't have period correct sub machines.. You are a real hero for laughing out load no less, what a man..( i mean a little gay for seeing that play to begin with , but yeah you got them)..
I have extensive experience with a full size collapsing stock Uzi on full auto. When you add a suppressor to it, the recoil is so minimal that on full auto at 100 yards I can put all 32 rounds on a paper plate. Legend or Over Hyped? Legend
We used it on 50 meters in the German army(early 90s) after the 3rd shooter we where no longer able to cover the 10. We just counted the misses from that point onward. There weren't many anyways.
Aaahh! The Uzi! As a child growing up in the Netherlands, we alway went to a forest near by our house that was an military exercise area. The Dutch soldiers were armed with FAL'S, FN MAG's but mainly Uzi's. The forest was LOADED with 9mm blanks and we collect them of course. Later, when I was in the army, I shot the Uzi a few times (they were phased out by that time). I could easily hit half size man targets at 100 meters. We normally only shot semi auto BTW. We learned to shoot full auto from the hip with the stock against the upperleg and the left thump over the top cover. BTW there was another stock. Specialy build for the Dutch AF. It's the same contour as the wooden stock, but made from sheet steel. Nice video!
When do you were in the Dutch army? Because I have an old Dutch steel helmet (those modeled after the American M1) that I bought at a flee market in Ostfriesland. Did you still wear one of those helmets?
@BertNL It was in Aurich. At first I thought it was a German helmet because the Bundeswehr had these kind of helmet shells for a while as well and it says "J. VIEL" (wich could be a German name) on the leather sweatband, but the guy who sold me the helmet told me it is Dutch and that matches with the liner and chinstrap design. It also has Hessian fabrik under the cover net and a rubner band that is cut from a tire wich apparently was a widespread practice in the Dutch army at the time.
The movie that really comes to mind when I think of this gun is "The Wild Geese" starring Roger Moore, Richard Burton, Richard Harris and Hardy Kruger. Still love that movie to this day.
Had a really cool Uzi toy gun when I was a kid. Damn I wish I still had it. Yeah, back when people thought it was a good idea to give kids realistic toy guns. I miss those days.
I had the best and biggest toy gun collection on my block when I was a kid. Everyone came to my house to "play guns" I would always take 1st pick. Usually some type of machine gun and a pistol or 2. Then everyone else would pick. We boys would spend hours in our war games some days. I was in the toy gun section at the store a while back. Getting a birthday present for one of the grandkids. A young man and his mom came walking by. He was eyeballing the assorted weapons and pointed to one he really liked. His mom quickly said "You know we don't buy those things!". He dropped his finger and the excitement left his face as she walked him out of the isle. I wanted to buy him a toy gun myself. I'm sure she got him something "nonviolent". Like a doll or a dress. Poor little guy!
**pretends i don't have an attic filled with realistic gel blasters** Yeah, those days were whimsical..... Joke aside, i wish i could own a real steel one
@@shadowwolf7622 My best friend between the ages of 7 and 10 years old (circa 1978 - 81) had a toy* MP-40 Schmiesser and I had a pair of Lugers, (amongst several other guns - beautiful Colt Dragoon with revolving chamber was a favourite) all of which were metal and took caps - fantastic quality toys. I'll never forget racing at full tilt round to his house after dinner so that I could claim the MP-40, before playing till dark through the gardens and back lanes (alleys). He was very good at sharing the MP-40 while he took my M-16 (not as good quality as his - lots of plastic). Great times wielding an MP-40 with a Luger sidearm while he had my period correct M-16 and Colt Dragoon. I'd love to be transported back for a couple of hours of complete escapism. *Toys, but beautifully made - being a little boy at the time I've no idea how accurately made they were, but there was some effort made - removable magazines on the M-16 and MP-40 and the Lugers had moving toggles. Wonderful.
@@shadowwolf7622 On the subject of kids not being able to play with guns - I don't understand what these parents think they are achieving. It's quite easy to argue that kids, (we'll say boys because it's usually boys) are going to end up more psychologically damaged, (for want of a better word) by being denied a toy, (and play experience) while the parents attempt to come up with a coherent reason for denying him. It's not like saying, "sorry, we can't afford that" or some other reason that the kid should be able to grasp - there's really nothing that you could say that would make sense to a child. When I was a young boy everyone played with toy guns......and bows & arrows, and catapults/slingshots, and rode bikes, climbed trees, made rope swings, disappeared for hours on end, and we definitely didn't all grow up to become violent or dysfunctional adults. It's kinda sad that kids imaginations are being manipulated by parents who'd rather see them glued to a tablet in a stuffy room, rather than seeing them out exploring.....possibly even getting hurt - the horror! I know exactly how this comment reads, but I can only imagine that the little boy being told that he can't have a gun will only end up full of resentment for his over-protective, mollycoddling, pain in the arse parents, and the parents will end up surprised at how it happened.
There's much about the world that is much worse than it was. I've got to many stories to even want to start ... I will say one thing though - parents denying their child something they really want - make that thing precious - and by doing so - often produce exactly the opposite result of what they intended. .
They actually carried them in a briefcase - in the full photo you can see the briefcase on the floor. The secret service agent in the foreground is trying to pull out the stock. He was called Robert Wanko, which was a memorable name.
5:00 No that's not what we want to see. We want to see the proper Gangsta stance: Fold in the Buttstock, get a second Uzi and dual wield them, emptying the clips in one burst.
The Uzi really looks like an evolution of the M2 Grease gun with how small it is, the rate of fire and how the barrel looks as it sticks out of the main body of the weapon. I suppose it makes sense since they were designed for similar reasons, form following function and all that.
I’d say the MAC-10 is more of an evolution of the M3 Grease Gun. Same stamped sheet metal design, even using modified versions of the same magazine, but more compact due to the telescoping bolt. But the Uzi fulfills that same form function as well.
I was in the IDF in the mid 1980's and the Uzi was one of the weapons we learned. Obviously very compact, acceptable accuracy for its mission and very comfortable to shoot. At 5:40 you can see that the muzzle is staying in line with the roof line behind it even at full auto. Not surprising since if I remember it weighs about 8 pounds. A Beretta 92 weighs under 2 1/2 pounds and has little recoil so it makes sense. One of the most memorable things about it to me though was its simplicity. It broke down into 4 large parts with no special tools needed for disassembly or reassembly. Literally with my eyes closed I was able to break it down and reassemble it in about half a minute. I'm surprised you still don't see many of them today.
I honestly curious. U talk about it good part of uzi. Is it no bad things from it? And please not because something related to bullet caliber thing, 5.56 are obviously superior than 9mm in terms of performance
@@fadhli179 I feel that it's good at what it does. You're right it's not meant to be an open field rifle like an AK or AR. It's more of a close to medium range weapon I think meant more for the tighter urban spaces, more than a pistol, less than a full sized rifle. As far as bad things about it? It's a bit heavy for its size. I think the bolt carrier is something like 2 pounds, like a brick of steel. I heard they did that to slow down the rate of fire.
@@shevetlevi2821 thx 4 reply. I was having a question in mind, with military now employing carbine rifle, will it replace uzi role as urbanized combat weapon? I was wondering is it because of controllability if uzi make this gun are an option, or is there some point i am missing completely.
@@fadhli179 Just to be transparent I'm not an expert I've just had experience with the Uzi and other military weapons. I think that armies are finding with carbines, especially with collapsible and folding stocks like the M4, Galil and certainly bullpup configurations like the Tavor that they can have the best of both worlds; they can approach the small size of a submachine pistol like the Uzi or HK MP5 but have a full power cartridge where as you noted the 5.56 is ballistically far superior to the 9mm. My guess is that the submachine pistols will still see some use in police departments or security details.
@@SeeYouInValhalla615 I think we agree that the Uzi is very versatile and rugged. And for what you did as crew on a recon tank you'd want something compact like that in the close quarters of a tank or armored vehicle.
Wow. Watching it fire in slow-mo was cool as fuck. This channel rules. I’m not even particularly interested in firing/owning guns but learning the ins and outs of them sure is cool.
I shot an Uzi, MP5, and Colt 9mm, all full-auto, in a range session many years ago. The Uzi was definitely my favorite of the three, for all the reasons that Ian related. It also was the most compact, if I recall correctly.
I shot the MAC10, UZI, and the MP5 at a range in Georgia in the mid 80s. Hands down: the MP5. The UZI was friendly, the MAC10 was a 9mm pipe wrench, and the MP5 was a dream. This was shortly after the SAS took down terrorists with it. MP5 was king.
Hollywood seems to prefer three magazine types: 5,000 round, 10,000 round, and infinite. I love it when they shoot full auto for about five minutes and then suddenly they’re out of ammo… how do they get all those bullets in that little mag??
I had the pleasure of some full auto time on an Uzi in the Army and absolutely loved the very controllable, slower rate of full auto. It has a solid feel and heafty weight which eliminates recoil. It's a great weapon, and I can see why it was so popular.
my personal firearm in the army was a Uzi, even got shooter first class with it, accurate up to 200 meters single shot, its not just a submachinegun, learn to control it, its pretty cool, carried it for 4 years, never jammed, never a misfire, just awesome
Nice to hear that. There is a sadness to the Israel's need for cutting edge weapons. Without them and a professional, determined, well equipped and well trained army, this tiny country would cease to exist.
Ha, we used these in the 'mag' in sunny South Africa - I still remember my first impressions; quite heavy (that bolt is a big chunk of metal), the 'chugga-chugga-chugga' feel in full auto which was really easy to control, you can really feel the bolt moving backwards and forwards when firing, how quickly 25 rounds disappears in full auto even at such low rpm, and my personal favourite: the part where if you don't pull the charging handle quite far enough backwards for the bolt to engage the catches, how it could still pick up a round and fire it when you released the charging handle! To their credit, the instructors demo'd this very clearly (one too many bad experiences no doubt).
I fired one at the Dragonman's annual MG Shoot in Colorado Springs and I hated that grip safety because it would cause the gun to malfunction if you weren't depressing it fully enough. You're right though - barely any recoil and very controllable. Great Video!
A design consideration you didn't mention, but which also drove for simplicity - it had to be usable in the dusty desert environment along the Egyptian border and in the Sinai. So it needed to be very easy to disassemble and clean. This also fed into that low, controllable rate of fire: a big bolt with lots of excess momentum could push through a certain amount of gunk in the mechanism, and reduced the rate of fire as a side effect.
@@GregorSass-Ranitz i have no idea what is a weakey is but if you mean wiki it says: "The Uzi ( /ˈuːzi/ ⓘ; Hebrew: עוזי, romanized: Ūzi; officially cased as UZI) is a family of Israeli open-bolt, blowback-operated submachine guns and machine pistols first designed by Major Uziel "Uzi" Gal in the late 1940s, shortly after the establishment of the State of Israel.."
Reminds me of the old joke: how to clear a room without handgrenades? Simply throw a loaded Uzi in. I guess the safety at the grip was really necessary.
Appreciate the basics of the guns on this ch, I ref it to friends as a documentary type ch, nuts and bolt stuff, being raised on docu tv for decades, I'm 57, I see it as an educational ch, having some experience w firearms it tells me what I want to know in a simple nuts and bolts manner, lock and load, keep up the good work. I have fired var guns some friends have including the Uzi, nice gun.
His father was also a historian and appeared in documentaries made for TV. I regret not being able to recall the example but at least one of them is preserved on UA-cam and the resemblance is obvious - apple didn't fall far from the tree.
I had one back in the early 80s. I did an ATF Form 1 and built it using a model A, an UZI smg bolt and ratcheting top cover. Great fun. Sold it a year after building it because as a young guy finishing college I couldn’t afford to feed it. Your specimen appears to also be a converted semi-auto because it has a modified semi-auto bolt. Nice video brings back lots memories.
I remember hearing from somewhere (can't remember where, so I could very well be talking out of my ass) that part of the reason the Uzi handles so well with so little recoil was one of the ideas when it was made was that it was easy to use for everyone, men and women, in case a worst-case scenario happened and they had to start arming everyone
I love these reviews of guns i will never get the chance to hold much less shoot due to Australian gun laws. Great job, keep it up. Your honest unbiased veiw of functionality in a guns design purpose is brilliant and rare
Absolutely reflects my own experiences when firing the Uzi at the German military - really fun, controllable and pleasant gun to fire. Just since our Uzi's all had 30+ years of service life the bolt catch was worn often so some where practical full auto only and others would not stop to fire after releasing the trigger... 😆 (either pull the Mag or wait till its empty in that case) may part of those uzi-as-a-granade ideas - they told us you need to secure the grip safety with duck tape for that to work...) One thing I found very destinctive was especially when firing semi-auto you really notice the sound and feel when the bolt hits the back and that makes it sometimes feel and sound like it has double the fire rate. Also the version with the wooden stock is quite heavy - almost same weight as the G3.
If you’re grenading it you have to do the two hand heave like you would toss a German Shepherd at someone. If you can see that visual in your minds eye
I'm glad i never had to touch a Uzi after basic training. One exercise on the range was to shoot 10 rounds in 3 bursts (might misremember the actual numbers) and I managed to do 6 bursts. Not because I was a natural born shooter, but because the 30+ year old Uzi liked to jam.
Wasn’t into guns, before I meet Ian! Like he’s way of explaining, demonstrating and the humor all in all good company!!! Bonus: I now have a chance to get some knowledge on all the guns I’ve fired in video games! Thanks :)
I’ve owned both guns a UZI bolt gun which I sold in the late 80,s after I got an MP5. There’s no comparison between the two MP5 is king but it’s also 3 to 4 times more money. I wish I hadn’t sold mine. They are fun shooters.
I shot the Uzi in 1984 with wooden stock and I too was surprised about how easy it was to stay on target while shooting. Of course it was almost as heavy as the assault rifle G3. ^^
The wife and I went to a range in Arizona and rented an Uzi. The squeal she let out when she touched it off was totally worth the price of admission. I love open bolt subguns.
Remember the Uzi was designed in 1948 and entered production a couple years later, It was one of the most modern sub-machine guns to enter mass production. What else was around in the late 40's-early 50's? Thompson, Grease, Sten, MP40 etc. The Uzi must have looked so compact and futuristic in comparison.
Not really. The Thompson, Grease, Sten, MP40 etc. were actually late 30s and early 40s type weapons. Hell, the Thompson and MP40 were actually 20s type weapons, that were just modified as time went on. The Uzi is an early 50s type weapon. That's a decade later. At that time new intermediate cartridges were coming into effect. No one really cared about SMGs anymore.
That first burst burst my bubble! Such an iconic weapon, I was expecting some loud Hollywood-style rapid-fire sounds! That gun is quiet! Thanks for the review, fella.
Its not only very easy to shoot and control, its also very reliable due to its basic design and the magazine double feedramp. It was also used by the Dutch military (I had one during my service time). Easy to take apart and clean as well.
Bit late with the comment but anyways, My dad also told me a about using it in "dienst". He said they would only oil it when they were being watched, because without it the sand of the training grounds would be easier to shake out by just removing the magazine and using it to hit it a few times.
+Mists and Shadows In the case of Kennedy in Dallas? At the airport we see the secret service agents be told to step down from the back of Kennedys vehicle and they protest with putting their arms in the air. LBJ had 2 Secret service men over him at the first shoot through Kennedys throat. Not a single Secret Service agent is near Kennedys limo. The driver of Kennedys Limo is doing the exact opposite to what they are trained to do? Instead of pulling down the throttle and get out of there at the first shoot the driver actually slows down. (Notice the red lights indicating the driver pull the breaks at the Zapruder film)
I think that open bolt design really helps to keep this balance while shooting full auto, you get that heavy bolt moving forward in the moment of firing and it's neutralized by the recoil of the bullet. Now only thing left is the spring doing it's thing and you have just that small amount of kicking. I think that's the case because when I was shooting my semi-automatic inetrial operated shotgun and then tried friend's break-action shotgun. His was kicking almost twice as hard and recoil was greater using the exactly same ammo. Because in semi-auto much of the recoil force is dissipated on moving the bolt back, loading the spring and so on.
Even though the L85 is dogshit, the Brits had the right idea when they trained their lefties to shoot right handed. Standardization is important afterall.
I am a lefty, used to be left eye dominant, now I don't have a dominant eye. Maybe because I don't shoot as much as I used to and I stare at the computer screen all the time.
4:37 can anyone explain why the gun seems almost to recoil downward? It doesn't have a muzzle brake on, so I'm guessing its not redirecting gases upward to shove the gun back down, and it sure as hell doesn't have the AK107's reciprocating rod (is that what its called)
Overhanging bolt, when that slams forward it makes for great recoil mitigation. Helps with the balance as well. Well thought out design, no wonder they're still in widespread use seventy years later...
I was wondering the same thing and figured it must be from the open bolt design. The chamber is ahead of the grip and the bolt travels from behind the grip. So the bolt going forward across the grip is almost like a forward “recoil” rolling the gun down and over to the front. Very interesting how rather than climbing on full auto it seems to just rock up and down in place!
Sheldon Robertson you found the words I was struggling for! But it's closer to 3/4 of the bolt that is in front of the chamber. Or is that the CZ25 that had that much of an overhang?
Forgotten weapons vids come in three flavours, guns that are hardly forgotten, guns that are forgotten and intriguing and guns that were forgotten for a reason.
This video reminds me of when I was in Bosnia and some Swedish forces came on base and some guy had an old Uzi no black left on it, he had a pony tail and goatee and an earring wearing shorts. I was like wow these guys are really relaxed.
Colt 9mm SMG-Uzi-MP5-Glock 18, order that I found in ability to put rounds on target. I really liked the Colt. The Glock was perhaps the most fun but a "spray & pray" weapon as you might expect.
It's a very controllable weapon. A guy at the range when I was younger let me shoot his... 13 years old standing up firing a drum mag out of a uzi as my first full auto experience was awesome.... the range officer was not happy
I just noticed your left handed too! I was helping sight in a .308 Win Tavor 21 the other day that was set to RH use. I took 30 or so casings to the chin! As we were packing up my family member informed me you can use a rifle cartridge to change the ejection ports to LH. Would have been nice to know as I'm sure you know the Tavor really spits those shells out.
I fired the Sterling plenty, The MP5 as well but I have always wanted to use one of these. I like the "One hand will always find the other one" mantra.
My first time shooting full auto I was able to use an MP5 and an UZI. I had no interest in the UZI until I actually used it compared to a half dozen other machineguns - it’s like a typewriter.
The designer Uzi Gal, after whom the gun was named, was born as Gotthard Glas in Weimar, Germany. He changed his name when he moved to Israel. So he learned his trade in Germany.
@@flopster8139 850,000 Jews were ethnically cleansed from Arab countries during 1948/1949, most went to Israel. So, I do think, seen the German murdering, that most Jews came from Arab countries.
We had some accidents with Uzis in the SA Army, when someone dropped one, especially inside mechanised vehicles. We found they tended to fire even with safety on. On the other hand, the Dog Squad guys loved them (dogs were used to sniff out landmines). Nice video!
A great little firearm. Had one in '68 during Miltary Service. Very pleasant to shoot and easy to maintain .. did what it had to do. Nice for in-Vehicle Cab carry .. especially in a Land Rover.
I cast and reload my own ammo, so the idea of shooting something in minutes that takes me *hours* to reload just doesn't exactly appeal to me. But, I fully believe that everyone should be able to own full-auto firearms if they want them and are willing to waste that sort of money to waste on ammo. "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" means exactly that -- no exceptions, no government approval, go mandatory government tax on certain types of firearms or devices.
I was issued one over a 15 to 20 year period. When the world was reasonably peaceful, it was an okay gun. They were only used to qual with. When times got tougher a smg wouldn’t cut it. They were replaced by M-4s, a far better choice when a gun is really needed. The downside of the smg was shooting a pistol caliber round from a gun of considerable weight. Semi-auto fire was not helped by the open bolt system, which impeded accuracy. As a range toy with government ammo they were a lot of fun. I wouldn’t have a smg if I had a choice when the chips were down.
As a kid, approx 10 years old, my brothers, a friend and I hopped the fence to a Semi Truck Repair yard and proceeded to go thru the trucks. My brother came across an Uzi and we all craped our pants, being scared kids already, we put it back and ran like hell. Glad I grew up then, as I would probally be in prison if I grew up now!
@@olisk-jy9rz Ian is a left-handed shooter . The Uzi isn't designed for left-handers. The first time that I fired one, the selector lever bounced off of the top of my firing hand.
@@dizzee6089 Let's face it, most people are right-handed. Some armies, most notably Russia and the U.K. are notoriously hostile to left-handed shooters.
I have a deactivated German MP2 that I bought from IMA several years ago and it came with both stocks, 2 mags and a bayonet. Wish it could fire, but owning a former working one is just fine for now. It was made by IMI on February of 1961 (2/61) in Kal. 9mm with the German DES selector markings (Dauerfeuer, Einzelfeuer and Sichert).
What is the expected lifespan of a submachine gun barrel? When people talk about bolt action rifles and assault rifles I often hear 10.000 rounds to be the expected service life of the barrel. But that is often single shot slow rates of fire. With submachine guns like the Uzi you put hundreds of rounds through the barrel in a matter of minutes. How many rounds are such barrels expected to last? And does one simply purchase a new barrel and insert?
If you would fire enough to get the barrel really hot that would lead to a shorter barrel life - but you will not really shot that much more rounds on a uzi just because it's full auto - usually you only carry a couple of magazines with you and you don't use a Uzi or other SMG/MP very much for suppressive fire where you would fire thousands of rounds in a short while. (is there any SMG / MP around with a quick exchange barrel?)
Steve Wozniak, master of the UZI submachinegun is the Secret Service agent. Carried it in a special holster underneath carefully tailored suit jackets and could whip it out instantly.
When the Dutch armed forces still had these in their inventory, they had the curious doctrine that automatic fire was to be done from the hip and only at extremely close range. I served as an army liaison to an air force unit, and on squadron range day (we're talking 1993), the instructor had us fire ten rounds each from the hip on automatic (keeping it down to 3-4 round bursts). Thing was, it was a 100-meter range, so you've got ten guys each firing ten rounds and out of the 100 rounds fired, one hit a target. There was no way to tell that the bullet actually came from the shooter whose target it was.
My Dad did national service in the mid-60s in a tank reconnaissance unit and was issued Uzis. They had the same technique! The idea being create lots of noise so that the others in the damaged tank could escape
ganes depict this is in so many ways but many get it wrong lol. Usually pitch is too high and rate of fire is too high. Id say only battlefield hardline got close.
Yeah. When I started seeing these videos and how perfectly controllable this weapon is at full auto, I got mad! COD4 depicts this as a unwieldy weapon that's super difficult to keep on target under full auto fire. Clearly wrong!
I used to have one of those. Getting rid of it is one of my deepest regrets.
It was made of plastic, and I was about five. I was also a member of the A-Team.
A team used mini 14
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Five GOLD STARS! LOL :)
can't like because of the 420 likes damn it!
@@alexcargo3358 whoops.....
Your impression of Schwarzenegger saying "Uzi 9mm" made my day.
Oozi nine millahmeetah
@@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs Someone needs to make an edit of that scene and change the audio to: " Hi - Point C9 " =)
Time stamp?
Waiting for Ian in 40 years time to say "phased plamsa rifle with a 40 watt range"
@@burhanbudak6041 Thank you
"a lot of people want to see me shoot from the hip" actually I'd rather see you shoot one in each hand like you're neo out to rescue Morpheus!
He's waiting to do that but with the actual guns, the mp5ks
I just want to hear you talk like Arnie..."...Uzi nine millimetre...!"
mp5k or it doesnt count.
No, the Terminator in Tech Noir. One-hand it and see what the muzzle does.
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He had Micro Uzis as well as MP5ks and Scorpions.
I used to be an instructor on the Uzi in 1976, never once had a stoppage. I loved it.
@@olisk-jy9rz ? You seem rather knowledgeable about my life. Do tell me more
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@@stephen9381 not sure what you mean? The Uzzi was of simplistic design with one moving part, (apart from the trigger group) which tended to slide backward and forward in the receiver with boring regularity as long as it was lubricated and not stuffed full of sand or other unwanted material, which would cause just about any firearm I know of to have some reliability issues, therefore you can hardly blame the Uzzi for it. Some magazine related stoppages occurred but it was avoidable as long as old worn magazines were not used. Some ammo-related stoppages did occur as well, but the SMG itself never really let me down.
@@losonsrenoster I think he's referring to olisk. You sure burned him on that one.
@@BatCaveOz the gun itself never let me down. Magazine-, ammo- , fouling related stoppages happened, but that would happen with any gun, not the Uzzi's fault.
“If you have sights, It’s generally better if you use them”
80s action movie protagonist:yes
I think you have it backwards they're buddy
@@mike62mcmanus tends to work best when someone is shooting at you.....
10/10 Arnold Schwarzenegger impression
UZI 9 MILLIMITA!
GET DAUWN
You know your weapons, buddy. So, which one will it be?
GET TOO THE CHOPPAAAAAAAAH!!
OneThousandEyes all.
"Hand meets hand" that's a pretty neat little concept in its simplicity.
It works.
With the power of proprioception, I can insert a magazine without looking!
@@Xandros999 of wha?? 😂😂
@@rextransformation7418 The instinctive knowledge of the position of your body without the use of any other sense like sight
UZI - Excellent or Overrated
IDF: Who cares? Give us practical, functional and reliable any day of the week.
"Da UZI 9 mili-meetuh..." -Terminator
Hahaha hilarious
You know your weapons, buddy!
12 gauge auhto loahda
Aku I think you mean “phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range”
@@RaferJeffersonIII It's down to this or picking up GarandThumb's challenge for the Halo rifle as the next April Fool's video.
Wow if the Germans adopted it, that's about the best compliment any machine maker could get.
Mr. Uzi was a mechanical maverick !
Hmmm, has this person actually WORKED with german made things? How about wonderfully engineered & manufactured....MISTAKES! Try telling your german company rep they used the wrong part! And that's not to mention the Audi, BMW, Mercedes & Porsche owners who all now the truth about "German quality" & the price they pay for it.
Dump Trump the quality is definitely amazing...but so is the price
@@bosknight7837 Lol "quality" doesn't break down from something catastrophic before 100,000 miles.
JoRgE Chavez quality doesn’t need its wheels reset every year
The Uzi was my service weapon during my time as a tank gunner at the Bundeswehr 30 years ago. I liked it a lot - smaller and lighter than the G3, much less recoil, accurate up to 150 meters. We still used the G3 for guard duty until someone decided that each guard detail should use its service weapon. From then on we went on guard duty with the Uzi - but for security reasons we got told to keep the mags in our pockets and not to charge the gun unless under threat. We were joking a lot about this -like challenging any intruders with "Freeze and don't move until I have put the mag in place!" 🤭
cant you carry it with the mag, uncocked? id imagine cocking can be done faster than reloading from a mag in your pocket, and an uncocked open bolt should be pretty safe.
Uhm, orders are orders!@@Almostbakerzero
@@Almostbakerzero afaik there was the fear that you could accidentally chamber and fire if you dropped it.
@@uffia.6817 I understand, I'm just curious about the mechanical aspect. I guess that maybe the safety can not lock the bolt in place while uncocked, but only lock it in the cocked position? That would mean when dropping the gun, the bolt could move just enough to chamber and fire a round without ever getting to the cocked and locked position. Or maybe they assumed that, if they allow the magazine inside, there will always be a dumbass who still cocks the gun.
@@Almostbakerzero Sorry, I don't know the answer, as a mere conscript I got taught to fire and clean various weapons but little about their intrinsic mechanics. When cleaning we were not allowed to dismantle certain sub-assemblies like triggers, safety or breechblock, that was the job of specialists.
Next do a phased plasma rifle in a 40watt range.
just what you see here pal
Nice night for a walk, eh?
At least rex removed his inhibitor chip and didn't try to kill obi-wan.
he did and the joke is tired
How about a DC-15? ;-)
I had the great pleasure of attending an armourers course in Israel in 1984 on all IMI weapons and was taught the technical aspects of the UZI by the designer of the GALIL rifle Yisrael Galil... Vic
Lost it at "UZI NEIN MEELEEMETAH", thanks for the laugh Ian
Imagine Ian shooting at intruders in his house, narrating what his doing. “I am now out of ammo”
And yelling "If you're interested in getting yourself one, there are actually several of them in the upcoming James D. Julia/Rock Island auction house auction. Of course, they are fully transferable." at the end of the showdown. xP
"And the sinners are no more"
Hopefully he got them all with the first mag.
i went to a "sounds of music" play in South Africa a few years back, when the nazi germans came in to the show they were holding UZIs, you can imagine how hard i was holding the laughter.
That one gif of maria with akimbo uzis i think
...ironic.
🤣😂 Hilarious! Probably went of the Heads of 99% of the audience who wouldn't have blinked an eye! There are Nazi era Coins with the Star of David Stamped on them! That made me question history!!👍😉
wow so a local Play house making a Musical about ANC , I mean Nazis running away Didn't have period correct sub machines.. You are a real hero for laughing out load no less, what a man..( i mean a little gay for seeing that play to begin with , but yeah you got them)..
@ ANC socialist Marxist pigs slaughter everyone an kill their Nation..But I'm sure you know that already..
I have extensive experience with a full size collapsing stock Uzi on full auto. When you add a suppressor to it, the recoil is so minimal that on full auto at 100 yards I can put all 32 rounds on a paper plate.
Legend or Over Hyped?
Legend
We used it on 50 meters in the German army(early 90s) after the 3rd shooter we where no longer able to cover the 10. We just counted the misses from that point onward. There weren't many anyways.
@@spraynpray They jam more on truncated 9mm rounds. The smooth ones dont jam as much.
What perks are you using and what's your K/D?
@@MrUnderdogArt 14 k/d. Ghost, fast hands and juggernaut.
@@MrSpirit99 I shot with the UZI 1988, no recoil, good hit rate, but very unreliable safety mechanics. Drop it, and it will fire.
Aaahh! The Uzi! As a child growing up in the Netherlands, we alway went to a forest near by our house that was an military exercise area. The Dutch soldiers were armed with FAL'S, FN MAG's but mainly Uzi's. The forest was LOADED with 9mm blanks and we collect them of course. Later, when I was in the army, I shot the Uzi a few times (they were phased out by that time). I could easily hit half size man targets at 100 meters. We normally only shot semi auto BTW. We learned to shoot full auto from the hip with the stock against the upperleg and the left thump over the top cover. BTW there was another stock. Specialy build for the Dutch AF. It's the same contour as the wooden stock, but made from sheet steel. Nice video!
BertNL TD
BertNL Nee, Crailo bij Laren. Het oefenterrein en de schietbanen zijn daar al 20 jaar weg.
BertNL klopt. De Kolonel Palmkazerne. We hadden Soesterberg ook nog in de buurt met de Leuderheide.
When do you were in the Dutch army? Because I have an old Dutch steel helmet (those modeled after the American M1) that I bought at a flee market in Ostfriesland.
Did you still wear one of those helmets?
@BertNL It was in Aurich.
At first I thought it was a German helmet because the Bundeswehr had these kind of helmet shells for a while as well and it says "J. VIEL" (wich could be a German name) on the leather sweatband, but the guy who sold me the helmet told me it is Dutch and that matches with the liner and chinstrap design.
It also has Hessian fabrik under the cover net and a rubner band that is cut from a tire wich apparently was a widespread practice in the Dutch army at the time.
5:21 someone should take this and graft into an 80s action movie. Ian returning fire against a bunch of bad guys. Mowing them down.
And then him pausing when he runs out, talking about how well the gun performs while leisurely reloading amidst people trying to gun him down.
Hilarious
I'm inspired now... hold my coffee.
Or a poster
Als shot these when i was in the army. There were a few that would automatically switch from single shot to PRRRRRRR after 2 or 3 rounds.
Dad: how was your day son
Me: I saw Jesus shooting an uzi
;-;
Skin needs to be much darker but don't tell americans that!
@@shrayesraman5192 what
@@adonygrapes Jesus was definitely not white...
@Lo and Behold I didn't realize people from Pakistan were that white...
The movie that really comes to mind when I think of this gun is "The Wild Geese" starring Roger Moore, Richard Burton, Richard Harris and Hardy Kruger. Still love that movie to this day.
....shooting them off the side of the ship.....
Green berets
Had a really cool Uzi toy gun when I was a kid. Damn I wish I still had it. Yeah, back when people thought it was a good idea to give kids realistic toy guns. I miss those days.
I had the best and biggest toy gun collection on my block when I was a kid. Everyone came to my house to "play guns" I would always take 1st pick. Usually some type of machine gun and a pistol or 2. Then everyone else would pick. We boys would spend hours in our war games some days. I was in the toy gun section at the store a while back. Getting a birthday present for one of the grandkids. A young man and his mom came walking by. He was eyeballing the assorted weapons and pointed to one he really liked. His mom quickly said "You know we don't buy those things!". He dropped his finger and the excitement left his face as she walked him out of the isle. I wanted to buy him a toy gun myself. I'm sure she got him something "nonviolent". Like a doll or a dress. Poor little guy!
**pretends i don't have an attic filled with realistic gel blasters**
Yeah, those days were whimsical.....
Joke aside, i wish i could own a real steel one
@@shadowwolf7622 My best friend between the ages of 7 and 10 years old (circa 1978 - 81) had a toy* MP-40 Schmiesser and I had a pair of Lugers, (amongst several other guns - beautiful Colt Dragoon with revolving chamber was a favourite) all of which were metal and took caps - fantastic quality toys.
I'll never forget racing at full tilt round to his house after dinner so that I could claim the MP-40, before playing till dark through the gardens and back lanes (alleys).
He was very good at sharing the MP-40 while he took my M-16 (not as good quality as his - lots of plastic).
Great times wielding an MP-40 with a Luger sidearm while he had my period correct M-16 and Colt Dragoon.
I'd love to be transported back for a couple of hours of complete escapism.
*Toys, but beautifully made - being a little boy at the time I've no idea how accurately made they were, but there was some effort made - removable magazines on the M-16 and MP-40 and the Lugers had moving toggles.
Wonderful.
@@shadowwolf7622 On the subject of kids not being able to play with guns - I don't understand what these parents think they are achieving.
It's quite easy to argue that kids, (we'll say boys because it's usually boys) are going to end up more psychologically damaged, (for want of a better word) by being denied a toy, (and play experience) while the parents attempt to come up with a coherent reason for denying him.
It's not like saying, "sorry, we can't afford that" or some other reason that the kid should be able to grasp - there's really nothing that you could say that would make sense to a child.
When I was a young boy everyone played with toy guns......and bows & arrows, and catapults/slingshots, and rode bikes, climbed trees, made rope swings, disappeared for hours on end, and we definitely didn't all grow up to become violent or dysfunctional adults.
It's kinda sad that kids imaginations are being manipulated by parents who'd rather see them glued to a tablet in a stuffy room, rather than seeing them out exploring.....possibly even getting hurt - the horror!
I know exactly how this comment reads, but I can only imagine that the little boy being told that he can't have a gun will only end up full of resentment for his over-protective, mollycoddling, pain in the arse parents, and the parents will end up surprised at how it happened.
There's much about the world that is much worse than it was. I've got to many stories to even want to start ...
I will say one thing though - parents denying their child something they really want - make that thing precious - and by doing so - often produce exactly the opposite result of what they intended.
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"Blehhh bleh" - Gun Jesus, 2018
1:12 - an iconic moment for Gun Jesus
read that, right at the same time I first heard him say it..
@@themandan4000 i love when stuff like that happens!
If you watch it out of context it gets even better.
Just keep listening too it over and over. I'm dying.
The bodyguards of Ronald Reagan had those UZI's in their pockets and took them out to shoot when he was shot.
That looked pretty impressive.
They actually carried them in a briefcase - in the full photo you can see the briefcase on the floor. The secret service agent in the foreground is trying to pull out the stock. He was called Robert Wanko, which was a memorable name.
A he still got shot lol
It looked like one of them were having a hard time getting the stock unfolded
Didn't do either of them much good against the lone off-radar nutter with a .22, did it?
Was that the mini uzi or full size?
5:00 No that's not what we want to see. We want to see the proper Gangsta stance: Fold in the Buttstock, get a second Uzi and dual wield them, emptying the clips in one burst.
Uzi's don't use clips .
@@olisk-jy9rz doesnt matter
You mean John Woo style
@@Dirtbag-Hyena when you hold it gangsta style, you call it a clip to stay in character. Shooting it correctly, it becomes a magazine
@@greyklopstock7155 ✅
The Uzi really looks like an evolution of the M2 Grease gun with how small it is, the rate of fire and how the barrel looks as it sticks out of the main body of the weapon. I suppose it makes sense since they were designed for similar reasons, form following function and all that.
Both are simple open bolt guns, but they’re very different inside.
@@MichaelEdelman1954 Correct. The Uzi had a telescoping bolt and a mag well in the pistol grip for a more compact weapon.
*M3 grease gun
The Js stole the design from the Czechs. That's something that Ian doesn't mention for some reason.
I’d say the MAC-10 is more of an evolution of the M3 Grease Gun. Same stamped sheet metal design, even using modified versions of the same magazine, but more compact due to the telescoping bolt.
But the Uzi fulfills that same form function as well.
I was in the IDF in the mid 1980's and the Uzi was one of the weapons we learned. Obviously very compact, acceptable accuracy for its mission and very comfortable to shoot. At 5:40 you can see that the muzzle is staying in line with the roof line behind it even at full auto. Not surprising since if I remember it weighs about 8 pounds. A Beretta 92 weighs under 2 1/2 pounds and has little recoil so it makes sense. One of the most memorable things about it to me though was its simplicity. It broke down into 4 large parts with no special tools needed for disassembly or reassembly. Literally with my eyes closed I was able to break it down and reassemble it in about half a minute. I'm surprised you still don't see many of them today.
I honestly curious. U talk about it good part of uzi. Is it no bad things from it?
And please not because something related to bullet caliber thing, 5.56 are obviously superior than 9mm in terms of performance
@@fadhli179 I feel that it's good at what it does. You're right it's not meant to be an open field rifle like an AK or AR. It's more of a close to medium range weapon I think meant more for the tighter urban spaces, more than a pistol, less than a full sized rifle. As far as bad things about it? It's a bit heavy for its size. I think the bolt carrier is something like 2 pounds, like a brick of steel. I heard they did that to slow down the rate of fire.
@@shevetlevi2821 thx 4 reply. I was having a question in mind, with military now employing carbine rifle, will it replace uzi role as urbanized combat weapon? I was wondering is it because of controllability if uzi make this gun are an option, or is there some point i am missing completely.
@@fadhli179 Just to be transparent I'm not an expert I've just had experience with the Uzi and other military weapons. I think that armies are finding with carbines, especially with collapsible and folding stocks like the M4, Galil and certainly bullpup configurations like the Tavor that they can have the best of both worlds; they can approach the small size of a submachine pistol like the Uzi or HK MP5 but have a full power cartridge where as you noted the 5.56 is ballistically far superior to the 9mm. My guess is that the submachine pistols will still see some use in police departments or security details.
@@SeeYouInValhalla615 I think we agree that the Uzi is very versatile and rugged. And for what you did as crew on a recon tank you'd want something compact like that in the close quarters of a tank or armored vehicle.
Wow. Watching it fire in slow-mo was cool as fuck. This channel rules. I’m not even particularly interested in firing/owning guns but learning the ins and outs of them sure is cool.
I shot an Uzi, MP5, and Colt 9mm, all full-auto, in a range session many years ago. The Uzi was definitely my favorite of the three, for all the reasons that Ian related. It also was the most compact, if I recall correctly.
I shot the MAC10, UZI, and the MP5 at a range in Georgia in the mid 80s. Hands down: the MP5. The UZI was friendly, the MAC10 was a 9mm pipe wrench, and the MP5 was a dream. This was shortly after the SAS took down terrorists with it. MP5 was king.
The MP5 is way better. It has a functional stock and way better ergonomics. Vertical pistol grips are ridiculous
I wonder, does a gun at the auction house increase in value if they have the “been fired by Ian McCullum” tag attached? 😋
Ive never seen gun jesus spelt like that
It should have
Value goes up due to provenance
I was so surprised the uzi didn't come with Hollywood's endless magazine.
Or 1m muzzleflash
Hollywood seems to prefer three magazine types: 5,000 round, 10,000 round, and infinite. I love it when they shoot full auto for about five minutes and then suddenly they’re out of ammo… how do they get all those bullets in that little mag??
I had the pleasure of some full auto time on an Uzi in the Army and absolutely loved the very controllable, slower rate of full auto. It has a solid feel and heafty weight which eliminates recoil. It's a great weapon, and I can see why it was so popular.
It's absolutely adorable how Ian did the hip-fire thing "because [we] want to see it." 😏 Adorable.
Ian, you should have been wearing a white leisure suit while shooting the gun!
Arizona Vice, hell yeah!
Don't get high on your own ammo supply!
Gold and chest hair.
With baby powder on his nose
my personal firearm in the army was a Uzi, even got shooter first class with it, accurate up to 200 meters single shot, its not just a submachinegun, learn to control it, its pretty cool, carried it for 4 years, never jammed, never a misfire, just awesome
Which army?
@@matarinio6412 Dutch.
Nice to hear that. There is a sadness to the Israel's need for cutting edge weapons. Without them and a professional, determined, well equipped and well trained army, this tiny country would cease to exist.
"When you have sights, its definitely best to use them."
"Thats what i love about wyat, he can talk himself into anything"
You look like you're about to be in Kane & Lynch 3
And Gun Jesus said, “Uzi Does It!”, and it was good.
Ha, we used these in the 'mag' in sunny South Africa - I still remember my first impressions; quite heavy (that bolt is a big chunk of metal), the 'chugga-chugga-chugga' feel in full auto which was really easy to control, you can really feel the bolt moving backwards and forwards when firing, how quickly 25 rounds disappears in full auto even at such low rpm, and my personal favourite: the part where if you don't pull the charging handle quite far enough backwards for the bolt to engage the catches, how it could still pick up a round and fire it when you released the charging handle! To their credit, the instructors demo'd this very clearly (one too many bad experiences no doubt).
I fired one at the Dragonman's annual MG Shoot in Colorado Springs and I hated that grip safety because it would cause the gun to malfunction if you weren't depressing it fully enough. You're right though - barely any recoil and very controllable. Great Video!
A design consideration you didn't mention, but which also drove for simplicity - it had to be usable in the dusty desert environment along the Egyptian border and in the Sinai. So it needed to be very easy to disassemble and clean.
This also fed into that low, controllable rate of fire: a big bolt with lots of excess momentum could push through a certain amount of gunk in the mechanism, and reduced the rate of fire as a side effect.
Another thing that wasn't mentioned is that the Js stole the design from the Czechs.
@@GregorSass-Ranitz yeah? how about you back that up with a source
@liorgoldshtein2373 Yeah. How about you look up Uzi in Weakey? It's written right there.
@@GregorSass-Ranitz i have no idea what is a weakey is but if you mean wiki it says: "The Uzi ( /ˈuːzi/ ⓘ; Hebrew: עוזי, romanized: Ūzi; officially cased as UZI) is a family of Israeli open-bolt, blowback-operated submachine guns and machine pistols first designed by Major Uziel "Uzi" Gal in the late 1940s, shortly after the establishment of the State of Israel.."
@liorgoldshtein2373 Yeah, but there's more written, bozo.
the Arnold Schwarzenegger accent Lmao
dung nguyen It was pretty good (I'm Austrian BTW and a relative of mine actually taught Arnold)
Get back to da choppa!
Much better than his British accent in the "carbine or carbine" video. ;)
Reminds me of the old joke: how to clear a room without handgrenades? Simply throw a loaded Uzi in.
I guess the safety at the grip was really necessary.
Has Ian covered the mp5?
First Last
Dont think so
Not really a weapon that needs it ya know
he didnt cover m4 and ar15 either
It isn't really forgotten.
Well, it's an iconic firearm, so it's reasonable for him to actually not covering it.
neither is the Uzi
Appreciate the basics of the guns on this ch, I ref it to friends as a documentary type ch, nuts and bolt stuff, being raised on docu tv for decades, I'm 57, I see it as an educational ch, having some experience w firearms it tells me what I want to know in a simple nuts and bolts manner, lock and load, keep up the good work. I have fired var guns some friends have including the Uzi, nice gun.
His father was also a historian and appeared in documentaries made for TV. I regret not being able to recall the example but at least one of them is preserved on UA-cam and the resemblance is obvious - apple didn't fall far from the tree.
@@Ni999 Thanks !!
I had one back in the early 80s. I did an ATF Form 1 and built it using a model A, an UZI smg bolt and ratcheting top cover. Great fun. Sold it a year after building it because as a young guy finishing college I couldn’t afford to feed it. Your specimen appears to also be a converted semi-auto because it has a modified semi-auto bolt. Nice video brings back lots memories.
most of them in this country started out that way....as an Action Arms semi....then converted......
I remember hearing from somewhere (can't remember where, so I could very well be talking out of my ass) that part of the reason the Uzi handles so well with so little recoil was one of the ideas when it was made was that it was easy to use for everyone, men and women, in case a worst-case scenario happened and they had to start arming everyone
I love these reviews of guns i will never get the chance to hold much less shoot due to Australian gun laws. Great job, keep it up. Your honest unbiased veiw of functionality in a guns design purpose is brilliant and rare
You can travel and use them for a few hundred dollars... Good fun
Adam Osborne You Ausi’s need to take your gun rights back by force if necessary.
@@craigscott5661 yes use the guns to take the rights back, just shoot anyone that's against it
Absolutely reflects my own experiences when firing the Uzi at the German military - really fun, controllable and pleasant gun to fire.
Just since our Uzi's all had 30+ years of service life the bolt catch was worn often so some where practical full auto only and others would not stop to fire after releasing the trigger... 😆 (either pull the Mag or wait till its empty in that case) may part of those uzi-as-a-granade ideas - they told us you need to secure the grip safety with duck tape for that to work...)
One thing I found very destinctive was especially when firing semi-auto you really notice the sound and feel when the bolt hits the back and that makes it sometimes feel and sound like it has double the fire rate.
Also the version with the wooden stock is quite heavy - almost same weight as the G3.
kunicross shooting at the Germans?
Uzi as a grenade? So you take a malfunctioning Uzi, trigger it, and throw it at the enemy?
If you’re grenading it you have to do the two hand heave like you would toss a German Shepherd at someone. If you can see that visual in your minds eye
I'm glad i never had to touch a Uzi after basic training. One exercise on the range was to shoot 10 rounds in 3 bursts (might misremember the actual numbers) and I managed to do 6 bursts. Not because I was a natural born shooter, but because the 30+ year old Uzi liked to jam.
Christopher Gebhard to be fair alot of weapons in basic training are worn to shit and treated terribly.
Wasn’t into guns, before I meet Ian!
Like he’s way of explaining, demonstrating and the humor all in all good company!!!
Bonus: I now have a chance to get some knowledge on all the guns I’ve fired in video games!
Thanks :)
I’ve owned both guns a UZI bolt gun which I sold in the late 80,s after I got an MP5. There’s no comparison between the two MP5 is king but it’s also 3 to 4 times more money. I wish I hadn’t sold mine. They are fun shooters.
I shot the Uzi in 1984 with wooden stock and I too was surprised about how easy it was to stay on target while shooting. Of course it was almost as heavy as the assault rifle G3. ^^
Anton Chigurh is it heavier than A silenced shot gun? how about a cattle stunner?
The wife and I went to a range in Arizona and rented an Uzi. The squeal she let out when she touched it off was totally worth the price of admission. I love open bolt subguns.
..Uzi or wife squealed?
if Wife...
..give her the good ol' H&K G3 in 7.62 next time! She sounds ready :-)
Theres just something beautifully simple about a solid, open bolt SMG. It isnt light weight, nor the most accurate, but very enjoyable.
@@thesmallestminorityisthein4045 Depends on what end you're at...
@@dallesamllhals9161 valid :D
Remember the Uzi was designed in 1948 and entered production a couple years later, It was one of the most modern sub-machine guns to enter mass production. What else was around in the late 40's-early 50's? Thompson, Grease, Sten, MP40 etc. The Uzi must have looked so compact and futuristic in comparison.
Not really. The Thompson, Grease, Sten, MP40 etc. were actually late 30s and early 40s type weapons. Hell, the Thompson and MP40 were actually 20s type weapons, that were just modified as time went on. The Uzi is an early 50s type weapon. That's a decade later. At that time new intermediate cartridges were coming into effect. No one really cared about SMGs anymore.
That first burst burst my bubble! Such an iconic weapon, I was expecting some loud Hollywood-style rapid-fire sounds! That gun is quiet! Thanks for the review, fella.
When I was in the Marines we did some ops with the Royal Dutch Marines they used the Uzi with a wooden stock
Its not only very easy to shoot and control, its also very reliable due to its basic design and the magazine double feedramp.
It was also used by the Dutch military (I had one during my service time).
Easy to take apart and clean as well.
Bit late with the comment but anyways, My dad also told me a about using it in "dienst". He said they would only oil it when they were being watched, because without it the sand of the training grounds would be easier to shake out by just removing the magazine and using it to hit it a few times.
About time, good enough for the secret service, good enough for me
They are finally moving to the M4. The SS is way behind in weaponry.
+Mists and Shadows In the case of Kennedy in Dallas? At the airport we see the secret service agents be told to step down from the back of Kennedys vehicle and they protest with putting their arms in the air. LBJ had 2 Secret service men over him at the first shoot through Kennedys throat. Not a single Secret Service agent is near Kennedys limo. The driver of Kennedys Limo is doing the exact opposite to what they are trained to do? Instead of pulling down the throttle and get out of there at the first shoot the driver actually slows down. (Notice the red lights indicating the driver pull the breaks at the Zapruder film)
The Stoned Videogame Nerd no the uzi was standard issue
Striker Orwell found the conspiracy theorist.
Salokin 2
It sounds like a sowing machine
On a farm?
Sew sew
Hahahaha. I pictured Ian riding a tractor, pulling an air seeder. With an Uzi.
Fired by a reaper?
So?
Again Ian, an excellent video. As always very informative and just fun to watch. Keep em' coming. Thank- you.
I think that open bolt design really helps to keep this balance while shooting full auto, you get that heavy bolt moving forward in the moment of firing and it's neutralized by the recoil of the bullet. Now only thing left is the spring doing it's thing and you have just that small amount of kicking.
I think that's the case because when I was shooting my semi-automatic inetrial operated shotgun and then tried friend's break-action shotgun. His was kicking almost twice as hard and recoil was greater using the exactly same ammo. Because in semi-auto much of the recoil force is dissipated on moving the bolt back, loading the spring and so on.
as a fellow southpaw, it's interesting to see such a compact weapon not ejecting in your face.
I think all of us lefites are handier with the right hand than righties with the left hand.
Even though the L85 is dogshit, the Brits had the right idea when they trained their lefties to shoot right handed. Standardization is important afterall.
I am intrigued, since the dominant eye IMHO remains the same
I am a lefty, used to be left eye dominant, now I don't have a dominant eye. Maybe because I don't shoot as much as I used to and I stare at the computer screen all the time.
Giovanni Battista Ponzetto - I've shot many guns as a lefty and never had any brass hit my face.
The sound of the Uzi is the classic, iconic sound of a sub machine gun we all have heard multiple times in our lives in TV shows and movies!
4:37 can anyone explain why the gun seems almost to recoil downward? It doesn't have a muzzle brake on, so I'm guessing its not redirecting gases upward to shove the gun back down, and it sure as hell doesn't have the AK107's reciprocating rod (is that what its called)
Open bolt maybe?
Jon Sei Lim
Most likely Ian is pulling down a bit when he fires to compensate for the recoil so he can stay on target
Overhanging bolt, when that slams forward it makes for great recoil mitigation. Helps with the balance as well. Well thought out design, no wonder they're still in widespread use seventy years later...
I was wondering the same thing and figured it must be from the open bolt design. The chamber is ahead of the grip and the bolt travels from behind the grip. So the bolt going forward across the grip is almost like a forward “recoil” rolling the gun down and over to the front.
Very interesting how rather than climbing on full auto it seems to just rock up and down in place!
Sheldon Robertson you found the words I was struggling for! But it's closer to 3/4 of the bolt that is in front of the chamber. Or is that the CZ25 that had that much of an overhang?
Forgotten weapons vids come in three flavours, guns that are hardly forgotten, guns that are forgotten and intriguing and guns that were forgotten for a reason.
That Reagan bodyguard photo is amazing. The style!
Typical Ian. Rocking a French Camo.
Green CE camo is really cool
I feel like Ian kind of switches it up between that some type of Soviet get up and a typical World War 1 or World War II American GI set up
German fall camo ftw
cannonball666 Tactical short shorts required
FELIN smock
This video reminds me of when I was in Bosnia and some Swedish forces came on base and some guy had an old Uzi no black left on it, he had a pony tail and goatee and an earring wearing shorts.
I was like wow these guys are really relaxed.
1:47 min. That’s a fairly good impression of an Austrian accent
Colt 9mm SMG-Uzi-MP5-Glock 18, order that I found in ability to put rounds on target. I really liked the Colt. The Glock was perhaps the most fun but a "spray & pray" weapon as you might expect.
My service weapon in the Dutch Army. (1991 41st Herstel Peleton)
Shot low and left, but it was a fun thing. :)
It's a very controllable weapon. A guy at the range when I was younger let me shoot his... 13 years old standing up firing a drum mag out of a uzi as my first full auto experience was awesome.... the range officer was not happy
Based pfp
"Phased plasma rifle."
"Hey just what you see."
The sailors in the SA navy used to joke that you never gave one of those to anyone known to drop things.
I just noticed your left handed too! I was helping sight in a .308 Win Tavor 21 the other day that was set to RH use. I took 30 or so casings to the chin! As we were packing up my family member informed me you can use a rifle cartridge to change the ejection ports to LH. Would have been nice to know as I'm sure you know the Tavor really spits those shells out.
I fired the Sterling plenty, The MP5 as well but I have always wanted to use one of these. I like the "One hand will always find the other one" mantra.
My first time shooting full auto I was able to use an MP5 and an UZI.
I had no interest in the UZI until I actually used it compared to a half dozen other machineguns - it’s like a typewriter.
The designer Uzi Gal, after whom the gun was named, was born as Gotthard Glas in Weimar, Germany. He changed his name when he moved to Israel. So he learned his trade in Germany.
Most Israelis came from Eastern Europe after the war.
@@flopster8139
850,000 Jews were ethnically cleansed from Arab countries during 1948/1949, most went to Israel.
So, I do think, seen the German murdering, that most Jews came from Arab countries.
1:44 was amazing haha xD
Jack Jacq lol
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We had some accidents with Uzis in the SA Army, when someone dropped one, especially inside mechanised vehicles. We found they tended to fire even with safety on. On the other hand, the Dog Squad guys loved them (dogs were used to sniff out landmines). Nice video!
I suspect the grip safety had been taped down thus allowing for an accidental set-back of the bolt if dropped on its butt.
Quite possible.@@jamesp739
A great little firearm.
Had one in '68 during Miltary Service. Very pleasant to shoot and easy to maintain .. did what it had to do.
Nice for in-Vehicle Cab carry .. especially in a Land Rover.
1:11 well, that made me laugh out loud
That looks just way to easy to blow through a hundred bucks worth of ammunition in just a few minutes, lol
Welcome to owning anything NFA? or at least anything full auto NFA
Yeah, that's pretty much the reality of full auto - even if you can afford to buy one, you probably can't afford to shoot it.
Worth renting one at least once and forking over the money for a lot of rounds for the day.
If you can't afford the stamp, you can't afford the ammo.
I cast and reload my own ammo, so the idea of shooting something in minutes that takes me *hours* to reload just doesn't exactly appeal to me.
But, I fully believe that everyone should be able to own full-auto firearms if they want them and are willing to waste that sort of money to waste on ammo. "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" means exactly that -- no exceptions, no government approval, go mandatory government tax on certain types of firearms or devices.
Really a no-nonsense weapon, built from the ground up by people who knew what they were doing and what they wanted.
This video is so old that Ians sunglasses are back in style
I was issued one over a 15 to 20 year period. When the world was reasonably peaceful, it was an okay gun. They were only used to qual with. When times got tougher a smg wouldn’t cut it. They were replaced by M-4s, a far better choice when a gun is really needed. The downside of the smg was shooting a pistol caliber round from a gun of considerable weight. Semi-auto fire was not helped by the open bolt system, which impeded accuracy.
As a range toy with government ammo they were a lot of fun. I wouldn’t have a smg if I had a choice when the chips were down.
As a kid, approx 10 years old, my brothers, a friend and I hopped the fence to a Semi Truck Repair yard and proceeded to go thru the trucks. My brother came across an Uzi and we all craped our pants, being scared kids already, we put it back and ran like hell. Glad I grew up then, as I would probally be in prison if I grew up now!
What’s wrong with showing us the targets you’re shooting at & how accurate it is??
The slow motion takes were sweet though.
@@olisk-jy9rz Ian is a left-handed shooter . The Uzi isn't designed for left-handers. The first time that I fired one, the selector lever bounced off of the top of my firing hand.
@@johnh.tuomala4379 I'm fairly new to the gun scene but what I'm getting here is that guns don't like lefties?
@@dizzee6089 Let's face it, most people are right-handed. Some
armies, most notably Russia and
the U.K. are notoriously hostile to
left-handed shooters.
@@johnh.tuomala4379 there is no such thing as a left handed shooter in the British military, that's been the official stance since guns were used
@@Scrump_Can I'm not surprised.
Brings me back to my drafting time back in the 90's .
Nice camo. Matches my FFL sun hat. Exquisite taste you madlad.
I have a deactivated German MP2 that I bought from IMA several years ago and it came with both stocks, 2 mags and a bayonet. Wish it could fire, but owning a former working one is just fine for now. It was made by IMI on February of 1961 (2/61) in Kal. 9mm with the German DES selector markings (Dauerfeuer, Einzelfeuer and Sichert).
The sound of the gun firing is really amazing.
“I came not to send peace, but an UZI” Gun Jesus
What is the expected lifespan of a submachine gun barrel?
When people talk about bolt action rifles and assault rifles I often hear 10.000 rounds to be the expected service life of the barrel. But that is often single shot slow rates of fire.
With submachine guns like the Uzi you put hundreds of rounds through the barrel in a matter of minutes. How many rounds are such barrels expected to last? And does one simply purchase a new barrel and insert?
Generally a lot more. A slower moving projectile wears the barrel slower, and the accuracy loss on a SMG is less of an issue.
And yes in this case you can easily just replace the barrel.
BoFoenss original barrels are chrome lined. 10000 rounds plus easy. First thing to go is the recoil spring.
If you would fire enough to get the barrel really hot that would lead to a shorter barrel life - but you will not really shot that much more rounds on a uzi just because it's full auto - usually you only carry a couple of magazines with you and you don't use a Uzi or other SMG/MP very much for suppressive fire where you would fire thousands of rounds in a short while. (is there any SMG / MP around with a quick exchange barrel?)
removeing the barrel is part of disassembly on uzis so replaceing it would be very simple
Steve Wozniak, master of the UZI submachinegun is the Secret Service agent. Carried it in a special holster underneath carefully tailored suit jackets and could whip it out instantly.
Watching you handle the Uzi suddenly brings up vivid memories of my basic boot camp training. Can almost feel the weight of it in my hands again.
"It really is a good sub machine gun"
Somebody please tell the devs at Infinity Ward.
When the Dutch armed forces still had these in their inventory, they had the curious doctrine that automatic fire was to be done from the hip and only at extremely close range. I served as an army liaison to an air force unit, and on squadron range day (we're talking 1993), the instructor had us fire ten rounds each from the hip on automatic (keeping it down to 3-4 round bursts). Thing was, it was a 100-meter range, so you've got ten guys each firing ten rounds and out of the 100 rounds fired, one hit a target. There was no way to tell that the bullet actually came from the shooter whose target it was.
I can imagine a goat and three birds down past the range died that day! Lol.
My Dad did national service in the mid-60s in a tank reconnaissance unit and was issued Uzis. They had the same technique! The idea being create lots of noise so that the others in the damaged tank could escape
ganes depict this is in so many ways but many get it wrong lol. Usually pitch is too high and rate of fire is too high. Id say only battlefield hardline got close.
Yeah. When I started seeing these videos and how perfectly controllable this weapon is at full auto, I got mad!
COD4 depicts this as a unwieldy weapon that's super difficult to keep on target under full auto fire. Clearly wrong!
Prophet Ares modern warfare does it quite well actually
The 30-round 9mm mag dump @ 5:42 was really cool.
Video games also made this Gun really sought after.
1:44 - that's a remarkably good impression of Arnold :)