The Sub-Machine Gun That Kills Its Owners
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- Today we take a look at the Polish PDW known as the PM-63 “RAK.” A neat little machine pistol with an…unfortunate design flaw.
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Ouch
nice rack
Ur cool
Hi brandon
Maybe
I am a pole, so i have to do my national duty and OMG IT'S POLISH GUN BRO I LOVE WATCHING YOU
Maybe you are a pole maybe even polished one but not a Pole for sure :)
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Wait, so "giving Swedish history metal bands new things to write songs about" isn't a national duty? Is that just your national hobby?
Kurwa
"Jesus Poland, can I buy a vowel?", freakin hilarious. 😂
I think it's Val.
No, my vowels >:(
@@Tylermaddox1911 are you dumb?
@@flameendcyborgguy883 oh lol my bad.
That was hilarious 😂😂
According to a few of my reference books, that "deadly flaw" was meant as a "last gasp measure". It was supposedly meant to allow a wounded man to operate the weapon with a single usable arm. Since you have one, you should test that claim out. Depends on whether the assorted controls can be managed with one hand as well as how inconvenient reloading might be.
Rak also translates to crabs/crayfish (crustacean) which are said to walk backwards. There is a Polish saying "Rak Idzie Wspak" which mean Rak goes backwards. Probably relates to how the gun operates. Also we name military stuff after animals.
Pro-Tip from a guy who used it extensively; Replace the spring in the safety. Spring in there is weak and it can cause that safety turns on and off on its own.
don't do that, that makes the gun less funny
@@lecso0519we must maximize funny levels
Goes off without pulling the trigger, Safety is literally haunted. One of those guns that does the enemies job for them
My Enfield no4 mk1 does the same so I removed the safety entirely, you can see it lift the bolt as you flick it on and off and if you flick it fast enough, the cocking piece/firing pin drops and hits the half cock safety and sometimes fires. Way safer to treat it like there is no safety/ literally remove the safety.
Thankyou i learned something useless and it’s only 2am it’s like being in school all over again on UA-cam
As probably many other Poles already stated in the comments, RAK means "crayfish" or "cancer" in polish, depending on the context. It is unknown why this gun is called RAK, two most popular stories are:
-The constructor had cancer while he was working on designing this gun, so he named it RAK (cancer) as a statement that either he beats cancer or cancer beats him during his work on the gun. Sadly the latter happened.
-RAK is short for "Ręczny Automat Komandosa" which roughly translates to "Commandos Handheld Automatic". This one is more popular and usually accepted as the true story behind the name, despite making little sense because that weapon was designed for and given to vehicle crews rather than commando units.
Tho, as mentioned before it is unknown if either of these stories is true, as naming process for this funky pistol is lost to time.
Another fun trivia: RAK had few nicknames, most common were "dentist" and "manicurist". It was because apparently rookies that were unfamiliar with the gun would get either their teeth knocked out by the slide hitting them in the face or would have their finger slip in front of the barrel during shooting... Which of course led to quick finger removal. Can't confirm if these stories are true, but I've heard them from multiple people who used to serve in Polish Military during common use of that gun.
Also, since you seem to have magical powers of summoning very rare guns, can we get a video with Wz. 35 "Ur" or Vis next? :D
I think you're the first guntuber I saw that liked this gun.
Great video and good luck on your campaign!
Cheers, from Poland! :)
these did serve also in paratroopers for very long, so maybe from there is the name
Thanks for posting. That was interesting info to learn. 👍
I can imagine it could happen, but probably not as often as the presumed urban myth of instructors all saying they've seen someone do it as part of the safety talk and/or it never happened but it was a recognised design flaw where they added 'no seriously I've seen someone loose teeth/a finger to one of these' to drive the safe handling home with trainees.
There was a similar myth about the l98 (cadet semi auto sa80). The A1 was straight pull single shot, so could be fired from left or right shoulder. The A2 was semi auto and you could lose teeth to it if you fired from the left shoulder- I was told one of our instructors had seen it happen, but I'm almost certain it never actually happened given we never saw an official warning about an actual incident.
It was probably DESIGNED for commandos but what a gun is designed for and what the government USES them for are ususally miles apart. Lol
Ian from Forgotten Weapons didn't like the semi-auto version.
Nice to finally see that someone in US has the original open-bolt piece, not a butchered version of it. That's probably favorite of my guns and at the same time - the cheapest of them.
2:45 also the designer made fun of it, saying that either he'll manage to finish the RAK (cancer) or the cancer will finish him off.
Absolutely right. I've seen it f***ed up by making it a closed bolt gun, without a stock or the front grip - and semi-auto, of course. No wonder Gun Jesus criticized it.
There is one more fun feature. Ejector is part of magazine. So if you have jammed gun by no fired primer usually at first you take out magazine. Then if you pull back bolt to unload bullet, bullet will go out with bolt but not eject and if you release or push bolt to the front firing pin will hit this bullet again and it could fire.
I wonder why this isn't more commonly done. The ejector is such a tiny piece of metal to snake around and reach this spot, when it could just be a little extra nub on the mag lip bent up. You answer one reason, for an open-bolt design. Seems like it would have minimal problem to put the ejector on the mag, for closed bolt guns.
@@mildyproductive9726 Maybe because you can not unload bullet from chamber without magazine?
Brandon, You need to know why it was designed this way. Those of us who served in Polish Army understand this. First of all it was designed for "tankists" - tank operators - that is why it is so compact and it has to be. Consider space in T-72 comparing to Abrams tank. Second it is carried in special pocket bag. It was also used by officers as sub machine gun (no they would not carry AK-47 nor operators of tank would do). I had RAK in my hands during training in Poland (long before I immigrated to United States). Yes it has flaws, but it was the best design for its purpose during it's times. Consider it equivalent of Israeli UZI.
Well. The Uzi kicks ass.
It's not equivalent though.
@@jamesbaker3153no but sometimes you take what you can get.
Who in the hell calls tank operators “tankists” lol
@@benhornstein1688to be fair he is talking in terms of use ability like he said you aren’t gonna use an uzi while walking the desert atleast not if you expect to fight anything farther then 100 yards
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An interesting fact that few people mention about the PM63 is that after firing all the bullets, you just need to replace the magazine and you don't have to drop the slide or operate any manipulator, just press the trigger. I saw somewhere on the Internet a mod that allows you to remove the magazine like in modern designs - a button under the thumb. Interesting SMG and a piece of history. Btw, all Poles just went crazy because pm63 is finally on your channel ;) .
I love when an open bolt gun is described as "dangerous" and the "danger" is that you shouldn't point it at yourself. Good job, humanity.
About self shooting thing
Some folks in Polish military found out that when spring gets loose in pm 63 you can rack the slide by flicking your weapon downward
it did not always go all the way back causing soldiers to discharge at their feet.
Soldiers who managed to shoot themselves blamed it on the gun malfunction/bad design to save themselves from potential punishment .
"I didn't shoot her, it's the gun's fault!"
@@UA-camLovestoHideCommentsAlec baldwin moment
Rak the slide you mean? 😂
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Not the soldiers, who shot themselves but NCOs, ensigns or even junior officers responsible for training troopers who managed to shoot themselves were claiming "it was an accident".
And usually accident was happening either the way Brandon described it in the video (hole in the thigh) or somebody had a hole in the palm of their hand (which was the other way of "raking the slide" of PM63). Neither of this techniques was considered proper.
Proper way of using the spoon to "rak the slide" was to press the spoon against flat, hard surface. Like armour of a tank or a side of another vehicle or against a wall (Poland being Eastern European country means that even today house walls are made from concrete or bricks)
My wifes uncle was driver in polish army when PM-63 was issued. He said that in theory that spoon in front had a lot of sense as it allowed them to respond quicker to nasty situation. Just slam front of your PM anywhere solid while exiting vehicle and you good to go. 2 most common nicknames for it in poland then and now is "dentist" thanks to bolt moving close to face and if you hold it in wrong way or stock suddenly collapses during firing, you can be sure that bolt will break your teeth. Second nickname is "nail cutter" or "finger cutter" thanks to the spoon in front of the bolt that if you hold it wrong it can supposedly cut off your finger during firing.
Also, uncle said that it wasnt bad gun almost every driver or crew member in vehicle preffered to be issued an AKS or AKSU. Why? For example truck that he was driving had rack for AK so they could leave it there in some situations with no problem, but PM-63 was always on you, even when driving. And remember it weights just a little less than half of AK-74
I think the most baffling thing about it is that anyone would try to cock it on their thigh or boot to begin with. Another comment said that these ways of cocking were even in the manual for it, but as you say, you could literally press it against ANY solid surface, and inside a tank or vehicle literally everything is going to be a hard surface, so why in God's name would ANYONE chose to cock it with the barrel pointed at their own body???
@@restitvtororbis5330To protect your comrades, of course. A solid surface might ricochet the bullet :)
Real answer: Because vodka is kurwa, morning vodka doubly so.
Eh they are Polish, that is enough of an explaination@@restitvtororbis5330
Oh! I love this piece and its nicknames already!😈
Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops profile picture, thats a first
gotta love how the front grip being deployed basically guarantees the thigh discharge thing so the most likely explanation is some tank dude for some reason deploying the grip and negating the thigh actions one hand convenience to blow a hole through their leg.
6:57 *WENDIGOON SPOTTED!*
I was kinda flinching with every shot thinking "if that thing fails that goes straight to the eye"
Eye puncher!
lmao
There was a prototype submachine gun developed during WW2 that had a bolt that came back like that. I think the US passed because of it.
@@henryturnerjr3857nope. You're thinking of the bolt action rifle converted to a semi-auto. It was def scary, but we gave up because it was just too expensive for how janky it was, not because of the bolt cycling.
Same
2:38 In polish language "rak" means two things, a disease "cancer" or an animal "crayfish" or "lobster". The designer most likely meant the animal. (Yes, I'm a Pole)
You got the rak, we got the skorp
Does it turn red when you boil it?
Nope, 63 in its name is the date when project was finished and the designer died from cancer 23 december 1960... so yea you can beat that he was thinking about cancer when he was giving this name to this weapon...
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@UA-camLovestoHideComments most guns do🤣
Rak in Polish has two meanings: cancer or crayfish. The common name of this weapon is crayfish! The weapon was to be used as a sidearm by vehicle and aircraft crews, paratroopers, shooters and gendarmes, it was to fit in a hip holster and be a weapon for the new standard Warsaw Pact cartridge, i.e. 9×18 mm Makarov. The project was entrusted to Wilniewczyc, the father of the Vis wz. pistol. 35 Radom.
Love you and @Wendigoon's bromance. Never thought he would have been a guy who would have been in your circle.
MP7 if it lived in a crackhouse!
Crack donkey MP7.
Me: Can I have an MP7?
Mom: We have MP7 at home
MP7 at home:
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The only gun the ATF wants you to have
That stock classifies it as a weapon of mass destruction. No can do
They also support the Remington "Kobain" model shotguns.
Pole police paid atf a lot 😂
Formed in the city of Radom, which at the time was almost as deep into the Polish interior as could be, the facility inherited the machinery from the old Prussian Royal rifle plant at Danzig (Gdansk today) and the old Deblin military small arms repair depot, by 1927 morphing into the Fabryka Broni (FB= roughly, Arms Plant). There, FB would make assorted Mauser 98-style rifles and carbines on the old Danzig machines, but when it came to handguns, they were stuck with making the Nagant revolver. Time for a shake up!
The first thing to bounce out the doors, since the Mauser and the Nagant, was the RAK. Combining characteristics of a self-loading pistol and a fully automatic submachine gun. Piotr Wilniewczyc the lead designer, in collaboration with Tadeusz Bednarski, Grzegorz Czubak, and Marian Wakalski, as their first work of any note, produced the "Random" at the Polish arsenal, located in "Radom". The FB-Vis - Radom Vis R35 or "Viz" pistol employed, employed well-established Browning features, Piotr 's admiration for John Browning, the creator of the Colt M1911, service pistol adopted for use by the United States Government in .45 ACP, was Colt's final masterpiece, although rumour and conjecture remains, this may in factbe, not the *real* final. Regardless, The Random, went from initial design, starting life in 9mm Parabellum, to mass production by Fabrique Nationale d’Armes de Guerre (FN), as the Grand Puissance Modele 1935 (GP or HP 35). In addition, the Vis 35/Radom, bears unique features, and is noted as being a particularly sturdy and highly reliable firearm.
The RAK or FB-PM63 entered service with the People’s Army of Poland and police in 1965 as the 9 mm PM or "Pistolet Maszynowy" wz. 1963 (“9 mm submachine gun model 1963”). Small numbers of the weapon, were exported to several Arab countries, Vietnam, and former East Germany. In a modified, "unlicensed" version, the PM-63, was mass for use by the People’s Republic of China, in the form of the Type 82, and sold under export to politically allied nations of China. The RAK is a selective-fire straight blowback-operated machine pistol, fired from the open bolt position. Unlike most submachine guns firing from an open bolt, the PM-63 has a reciprocating external breech bolt, known as a slide. The slide is part of the fire rate-reducing device. When the trigger is pulled, the slide is released and driven forward by the return spring, stripping a round from the magazine, feeding the chamber. The PM-63 RAK is a unique and intriguing firearm, blending elements of both pistols and submachine guns. Its distinctive design and historical significance make it a notable piece of weaponry and size, making it a compact and effective tool, in addition to it's 15 or 20 round standard issue magazine system.
The company behind it all, Fabrique Nationale d’Armes de Guerre or FN, at the end of the 1950's with WW2 now safely concluded, was approached by the British and Joint Commonwealth forces, for procurement and creation of a new service rifle. The adoption, initially met with mixed results. Know as "The Digger" by Australian troops, (technically a SLR or self loading rifle, armorers would chop or cut down the barrel to standard-issued SLR length at the front sight post. Often, the addition of a cone-shaped flash hider was then placed, shielding the exposed barrel.), The L1A1 FAL served the Australian forces during 1960 -1992, being replaced officially during 1988, with the Steyr AUG (F88 Austeyr), interestingly, the first product of notable success for product manufacturer Glock, was the GLOCK Field knife FM 78, remaining, one of (possibly the best), first Bayonet attachment for the AUG (German saying: Armee-Universal-Gewehr, or 'army universal rifle'). The adoption of Glock's "fully automatic"(jk), field knife by Austrian Armed Forces or "Bundesheer", (Federal Army) for use of the Glock Feildmeister FM78, cemented Glock's success, being Gaston's first noteably large contract. Gaston Glock, an injection moulding and polymer fabrication expert, didn't design or manufacture a firearm until the aged of 52.
Any of us cod veterans remember this from BO1
it even kinda sounds like that in game too, they gave some detail too it fr
that kinda "slop" sound
"Better dead than read. Red Dead Redemption 2." Now that's adhd😂
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I got a plan aurther
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As a Pole (and son of a police officer who has been using this gun) I can say that what you have show happen more times than one😔 It was so bad that when they are going in the field with RAK they go with magazines out of the guns - in pockets of uniforms. For safety🥵
Also - thigh reload was a thing - official instructions for polish SOF shown that "technique" along with floor reload and "heel of boot" reload.
Plus when you are shooting from RAK you may get: black eye, no front teeth, point finger shoot off, foot shoot through. Pure fun 😂
But, for f sakes - I love this gun😊 Light, compact, controlable, with Omnis toolkit freaking awsome 🤟
Jealous thou - cannot have legally in Poland full auto version 🤬 You are having - only semi ver. 😡
P.s. To hell with Beryl (not that is a bad gun to make video on) - GIVE US A TANTAL VIDEO (or MSBS if you will ever have one). Pretty please 🙏🙏🙏 With best wishes (for the win to) from Poland.
Really cool 🤘🤘 my guy but please 😭 with the excessive emojis 🥴
could they not shorten that scoop so you cannot use it to charge the gun?
the fact that it works entirely by slam firing makes this the gun equivalent of a butterfly knife,
its something you dont hand to non gun people, or even to novice gun people,
@@johnbarr9857 They did experimental version without a "spoon" and left side handle - but by the time they ended trials Polish Army switched to PM-84 - closed bolt, heavier, bigger Uzi-like machine pistol which evolved into PM-98/06 version on 9mm Para and with totally diffrent front grip. From I can tell from users of both mp - the were nagging about RAK, but opinons about PM-84/98/06 are far more worse - mostly due higher weight and size. As an user myself I agree with them wholehardy. RAK RULES !!!
@@Scout339th i will try better next time
It is very cheap in Poland now, because there are a lot of them.
I paid 999 PLN.
About 250 usd?
Plus about 90 usd for 3d printed conversion (that is amazing)
RAK is a weapon of drivers, not of any commandos. The word crayfish means a crustacean that lives in water. For 100 years, Polish weapons have been named after animals or minerals as they are now, e.g. Lobster, Badger, Krab and the Rak self-propelled mortar.
The poke your eye out slide feature is awesome.
Not if you use the unmodified open bolt. I am not that experienced with firearms, but if the bolt starts from the rear position it comes back to the same position. Very little time to put it closer to your face than when initiating fire. And 9x18 does not kick at all 😊
That slide might be hard to get used to .
Also. It was fairly well known for smashing glass in your gas mask, which of course compromised the mask's integrity. 😁
I had a fantasy of attaching a boxing glove to the slide
@@michaelbreckshot6589 It would make a great cartoon.
Every since Black ops, this has been one of my favorite PDWs.
Plus it's polish
I also liked this in black ops but the lack of attachments was sad. Ak mp5 got better score. Ak especially
Akimbo in red with a badass logo design on the back was my go to for free for all in Black Ops😂
Well it's pretty shit in zombies
As for the spoon under the muzzle, it helps reduce the upward jerk of the gun under recoil, which is important in such a light and short weapon.
One of the unique features of this gun that I've not seen on any other is that the ejector is on the magazine. It's a modified feedlip.
Ok im the Pole here. First RAK - cancer indeed, as the creator Piotr Wilniewczyc died of cancer before he ended creating the gun. As it was the same guy who created famous polish VIS pistols, there is a huuuge possibility that if he would live a little longer the gun would by waaay better.
And second more popular translation from the People Army of Poland RAK - ręczny automat komandosów - which can be loosly translated as "handy/ or hand held automatic gun of commandos". In the end PM-63 was mostly used by drivers and echelon units, as previously all of them had to use AK's.
One more interesting part, is the story behind this "longer barrel spoon/thingi". One is that it prevents from shooting at your own hand, second that i allows tank crewmen to reload the gun using only one hand by pushing the gun against some hard surface in the vehicle(this as i remember correctly can by found in official army manual).
But yeah other not smartest soldiers tried to reload it by presing against thier thigh which of course led to self inflicted gunshot wounds.
In the end gun is small, as it weighs something around 2kg(loaded) and has preetty damm nice firing rate. But ineed its way to delicate, and need way more attantion to safety than army gun should need.
ps .
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Thank you for the insights you brought! Personally I think a weapon that could slip while being readied, and fire a bullet inside my tank where the bullet has nowhere good to go, is something of a training flaw. Likewise, cocking it against the face of a stone wall could result in a bullet bouncing right back at me.
There's a reason the cocking grooves in the slide are so deep -- to give a hopefully secure hold while cocking!
That spoon is to deflect the muzzle blast upwards, pushing the muzzle down, to aid control. That's what I learned when I learned the RAK in 1984. No one told me, then, about "the dentist" name, but that certainly makes sense! The PM-63 RAK and the Beretta Modello 93R with its detachable folding stock share that trait.
What is the rate of fire?
Looks like 6-700+
Way faster than an M-3 Grease Gun anyway.
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it's actually Crayfish - animal, not Cancer - the health problem.
You don't know much about polish weapon names don't you?
Poland mountain
This gun feels like what would happen if Kel-Tec was a Soviet enterprise
That’s FB in a nutshell. Just why? The company.
If you don't want fisticuffs, don't associate the Soviets with Poland within arms length of a Pole.
@@RussellNelsonwithin earshot, that is. Within arms length only serves to speed up the process
@@RussellNelson While true, they were under Soviet control at the time it was made *and* it fires a soviet cartriage.
I remember when the demills for these were relatively cheap, it looked like the slide and bolt were two parts, possibly allowing for a closed bolt rework.
Hi. Another very similar design in basic crew equipment for armored forces in Poland is/was the PM-84 "Glauberyt" submachine gun
" at no point will I pull the trigger ". Yeah okay Baldwin, we believe you.
I was thinking the same thing. Brandon about to Baldwin that gun.
It's not a flaw in design, it's a flaw in training. The Manual should read: DO NOT Charge weapon against any body part and maintain a safe direction.
agreed but in the video he charged the thing with the slide and it fired a round… that’s pretty bad lol
It’s both
Flaw in design
I feel like if you need that warning then you shouldn't be handling firearms
Training in Polish military in commie times was more of a hazing of conscripted 18-yo, than an actual military force training (Forcing recruits to jog around in full CBRN gear + gas mask was basically a rite of passage). Young adults were conscripted basically straight from high school to keep them down during their "most rebellious" years. Conscripts didn't care about training nor instructions, they were there because they had to, and the "drill sergeants" didn't care about training them anything useful, other than obedience and timed disassembly and reassembly of a Kalashnikov.
I don't know about tankers, but folks that legit had a driver's license had it easy in the army (almost an absolute lack of personal cars during that period).
Not big into guns but I super appreciate the timestamps to skip sponsored content. Thanks for being one of the highest class of UA-camrs out there. Gonna start checking out some more these videos. Cheers.
I'd love for you to do the FAL. I used one in the Cdn military in the late 80's, but they have been banned in Canada since the 70's. I loved it so much, and we could get 1" MOA at 100 yards with open sights. Actually to qualify, everyone had to get 3/5 within 1" (once) just to pass military requirements. Myself and 3 others in the platoon got a 4/5 grouping twice. That got us a higher qualification !
The FAL is such an amazing rifle and I miss mine. 35 years later, her serial number is 5L4811 We did a UN tour together
6:50 The surprise Wendigoon made my heart smile.
I think I may need medical attention as hearts are not meant to have mouths…..
Naw man we got to go bald
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Pffffttt…… hah!
It's good to see Brandon and his twin Wendi finally do a collab.
Yeah, so my dad was a BMP driver. Every night his company was doing patrols near the fuel depot. Two man shifts, starting in the opposite corners of the depot, never supposed to meet during their patrol. Well... two of his buddies decided against that idea 'cause they got bored. The met in the middle, deciced to play 'cowboys', drawing their RAKs and whatnot. One of 'em decided it was a good idea to slap the weapon of out the other's hand... Needless to say, he almost said goodbye to his hand. It happened exactly like you said in @10:28. Didn't catch the sear, went forward. Now you've got stigmata.
He got stigmata.
I wonder what his commanding officer had got for this...
Jezus Christ?@@PobortzaPl
One of many, many examples why no one besides the poles have ever praised the polish firearms industry.
"Buckle up, Chucklef***" is now going to be a permanent part of my lexicon. Bless you sir.
I spent two years in Poland and the contracted security guards that worked at the base I was at had PM-63’s and CZ BREN 805’s. Definitely an interesting combo. This was from 2019 to 2021.
Greets from Poland.
German guy here.
AFFA
aaa, to wy mnie ściągaliście z kołowrotka na biurze przepustek po pijaku?
bren 805 😍
Do a (b)oint!
I would kill for Brandon to get and cover the 805. I don't know why, but since I first saw that gun in cod ghosts, it was love at first sight. I've always loved it.
RAK means cancer, but inpolish it also means crayfish and that was the intention in this case. Multiple polish weapons, tanks, planes and so on have animal "codenames". E.G. PZL-37 Moose (Łoś) a bomber plane
Ah, Cancer as in the astrological sign and the crab.
Same for tanks, there was a CS-52 Lis (Vox) prototype on paper in the late 50's.
The worst is "Bóbr". Hated even by its designers 🤣
@@NikovKcorrect. Which is why in quite a few countries the crab is the logo for their cancer research agencies.
Like cancer the crab? hhhmmmmmm?????
These guys sure love their guns...
Something can't be "really" unique. Unique indicates one of a kind.
Always gotta admire a weapon that can pack so much functionality into such a small package without being overly complex. Such clever design.
Micro Uzi disagrees
Even with serten dangerous things the gun can do to the owner i think as long you get some instructions it should be fine in use. but yeah you need be a real dum dum to make it shoot in a situation you caused how ever for the size of the gun its pretty good stil could maybe use a new version of this desgine thats a bit safer in case of wrong use. stil im impressed by the gun also first time i see one being reviewed does kinda look sci fi for a gun.
@@ajgrant9954 micro uzi has no function beyond hitting everything but your target at 5 feet away
Have you seen the milling on the receiver? The basic mechanism is simple, but that is no Sten.
I guess!
AFAIK it was supposed to stand for "Hand-held Automatic for Commandos" (Ręczny Automat Komandosów). They loved to come up with acronyms that formed something cool. In this case, "crayfish".
Actually it wasn't, there's no proof for that and it wouldn't make sense because it wasn't meant to be used by special forces, but tank crew, etc, basically as PDW. It is also not actually called "Rak" and it's much information why it got that name, officially it's just called PM-63. Similarly, P-64 Czak it's actually just called P-64, but it's prototype was called CZAK, which stands for first letters of its designers, in case of PM 63 its prototype didn't had a name, neither letters R, A and K could stand for its designers' names.
I’m guessing “crayfish” got translated as “cancer” because of the astrological sign (which I thought was a crab, but whatever)?
@@willprince643So you say, but that's the origin story I've heard circulated back in Poland by multiple knowledgeable sources as far back as the 1980s. I dunno what to tell ya.
Polish guy named piotr here.
Rak means crab
An acronym is exactly that, a series of initials that result in a cool word. FBI is not an acronym, it's an initials while MAD (= mutually assured destruction) is.
Had NO IDEA the pm-63 was open bolt I have yet to see it show in a film or game being open bolt thank you so much Brandon
The Bobby Hill impersonation was great!!
Theoretically the RAK was a weapon for tank crews. We never had them, we had AKMS. We regretted it until the first lesson at the shooting range. As a handgun it was heavy and uncomfortable on the belt, shooting at a distance of over 25-30 m was damaging the ammunition, and the bolt flying in front of the face was very depressing. The AKMS was a completely different class of weapon, and if you carried it with a folded stock on your belt, it didn't cause much trouble.
"shooting at a distance of over 25-30 m was damaging the ammunition,"
What?
@@2percentright 137 man in company, each 25 rounds, 25 meters, target something as TS 4. No one hit more than 4 times. OK, that was our first and only time with RAK, but you have to agree; that was waste of ammo.
@@2percentrightReplace 'damaged' with 'wasted', I think. He's saying the gun was inaccurate.
@@2percentright I think English might be a second language.
@@maximus-hl9jw I think you just might be right.
I had this weapon during my military service in the Polish army 15 years ago, you brought back memories🥲
I didn't think Poland had an army 15 years ago
@@andyasdf2078 15 years ago was 2009 so wdym?
@@andyasdf2078we did. We had army ever since our country existed.... Fucking hell
@@wlodek7422for half of history your country hasn’t existed and for half of its time existing it was just medieval brothers/cousins splitting the country 10 times over 😭☠️
@@diemarxistischeliga7983 buddy, we were gone for 120 years at most. That's about 10% for your presumably american brain
BROTHER Isaiah and you is the crossover I didn't know I NEEDED 😭 please do more
That was a great episode, i felt like i was in the company of adults for once, super rare these days. Great jokes and no sugar coating
The frase "Buckle-up chuckle-fucks" just became an instant classic and deserves an award! 😂😂😂❤
whenever he said "this is my tank and i dont know youu" had me dying on the ground laughing🤣🤣
On a tee shirt!
Welcome back to reality, I hope you enjoyed living under a rock.
@@charlescouncill☕👕
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the slide coming at your eye like that has gotta be super unsettling
My guess is that’s why that design didn’t last on early model ARs.
Yeah, original AR10s look kinda weird.
RAK stands for "Ręczny Automat Komomandosów" - "Hand used automatic commando gun/pistol" , also "cancer/crayfish". The pistol had long list of accidents in "police" and army. But was fun in use
Fun fact. In some shots of a gun wall behing Brandon we can see an m16 with wood furniture from an NCR service rifle video witch will come out some 2 months AFTER this video. I'm not kinda surprised that videos may stuck in production, but I am
I loved the random Wendigoon cameo at 6:50 . You and him are my favorite UA-camrs
I was wondering if I was just seeing things. I've only watched a few of Wendigoon's vids, but I loved every minute.
"That sounds like Wendigoon. Oh shit, it's Wendigoon."
4:40 love that NCR Service Rifle
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
I love how he goes for white claws instead of Bud lights cuz he knows if he buys a Bud light he supports Bud light😂😂😂😂
@@skylerrowland7099Or because people would cry and try and cancel him lol
@@skylerrowland7099wtf does this have to do with the comment 😂
@@mrcmoes really because it's the gay people that have been trying to cancel everybody else 😂😂😂😂 literally the only thing straight people canceled was Bud light 😂😂😂 leave our f*************** alone and our beer
Funny you mentioned Red Dawn. That's the first thing I tought of when I saw the VFG!
the "that will fuck you up" after the slamfire test made me chuckle for sure lmao good vid congressman Herrera!
My Dad was in the Polish People's Army as there was a mandatory draft for every young adult. He got assigned to a WSW company where he was armed first with AKMS, then he was a Shooter in the PKM squad, and finally, he got moved to a driver role where he was armed with PM63. He told me that he really enjoyed having PM63 by his side, mostly because it was light, so the guarding duty wasn't as exhausting as it used to be with AKMS on his back. He also told me that he really enjoyed shooting with PM63, and he'd like to have one now if he had a gun liscence.
There's something ironic about drafting an entire population of young men in the military, only to deny them firearm rights afterwards because apparently those civvies can't be trusted with guns.
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6:57 good to see you spending quality time with your son. As a son who also once publicly called their father B-tier, this gives me hope that I, too, may one day reconcile. Not likely since he passed away in 2021, but a guy can hope.
RAK is Polish for crayfish - it's a Polish theme to code name any military Equipment by some kind of animal,most of the stuff we have is named like that: we have planes named after Polish national white-tailed eagle "Bielik", our destroyers are code named "cormorant", we have Leopard tanks, armored personell carriers called wolverines, 155 mil howitzer named KRAB (for crab, duh), and mortars also named RAK (I think in both cases it's meant to be crayfish) and we have rocket launchers named LANGUSTA (crawfish), a multi-role helicopters called Falcons and infantry fighting vehicle: the badger. (Badgers? We don't need no stinking Bagders - because we also have foreign made stuff, with no animal names, which is a shame), there is also the Cougar, ab Arctic Cat, a Viper, a Yak, a Scorpion a Wasp, a Panther and a Beagle (???) and finally the humble Walrus. We also like to name stuff by natural phenomena, hence Lightning anti-aircraft missile systems and our most famous military unit is named GROM (thunder! - I love AC/DC, I think all the guys keep listening to Thunderstruck while on mission) - and finally we like to name weapons after classic weapons: like the arrowhead riffles , the hail artillery or even pure random crap, like the sapper's vehicle named after the poplar tree (wtf? I guess Major Oak or General Sherman were already taken so poplar is fine I guess ), there is also a Cactus and a snowdrop,. the ribbion and the carnation (how lovely).
So yeah.... I guess we like birds and crustaceans especially when naming military gear.... I think it's neat.
I'm watching this while sitting with my grandma. Out of nowhere you drop an f bomb 😂. I went to grab some headphones real quick lol. On a serious note, I love the channel, especially because of how much I have learned from it while getting a good laugh
"We have MP7 in poland"
The mp7 in poland:
It’s MP0.7
We have sr2M at home
@@gVint100 MP0.07 Beta Release
Seeing wendigoon have a range giggle for some full auto is always great.
Awesome content this channel packs every time
Are they related? They look like they could be brothers or something
there not
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@@ryedergrenier3561I came here to ask the same thing
We never saw them together in the same room...
@@ryedergrenier3561 honestly I believe Brandon just genuinely loves dudes content and they became internet pals and then irls
But TBF, I think a lot of us AK boys match a gruff, hairy stereotype lol
And here I thought it was blowing fingers off because the front handle is too far forward or taking an eye out because the slide action flies directly at your eye. I haven't been this impressed with design fails in a long time. Thanks for the video!
Don't know if anyone mentioned it before - the slide on PM-63 was generally heavy enough that you could reload it with innertia. You'd need to hold the pistol single-handed and immitate straight jab with the barrel slightly upwards and the slide would just "stay" in place and lock in battery (because, physics).
"Jesus, Poland, can I buy a vowel?" 😅🤣😂🤣
Half my family is Polish, I can relate LOL
Piotr Wilniewczyk has more vowels than Brandon Herrera.
@@StefanEdek How many consonants does it have?
Better thanmy local dialect of Slovenian, where we drop vowels, especially E, out of some words completely and replace them with J. Ex. Peter becomes Pjtr, sedem becomes sjdm etc
what can I say, we like things complicated.
If they're simple, we make them complicated.
@@StefanEdek Actually it has the same number of vowels 😂
(And, yeah, don't ask me why "y" isn't a vowel.)
2:15 "Jesus Poland can I buy a vowel" 🤣
You ain't seen nothin' yet: dig THIS one: Zbgnew. It's a mans' first name. Nightmare, anyone?😂😂
Peter "Vilnievtzyc" - that should be bout right when you want to say it out loud.
As an ex-vet Brit living in Australia, I love your videos. Keep up the great work.
RAK can also be translated to crayfish. But also it was short form unofficial name „Ręczny Automat Komandosów” - Small/Hand Commando Machinegun.
Especially used insted AK47 in tight/small spaces by special forces oparating on airports/planes
Same in Serbo-Croatian. "Rak" has two meanings and both are the same as in Polish.
Funny how Slavic languages can be so different and so similar at the same time.
It's non "official" abbreviation, mostly made up later.
@@shonemumy same in Russian, feels like it's one of few words that some ancient Slavs used so many Slavic languages got it or something like that
kolejna powielana bujda z tymi komandosami. jak już to kierowcy, bo był głównie projektowany jako broń bo załogi pojazdów jak czołg i bwp-y.
@@Maciej2801 Dokladnie, nie wiem skad się to wzięło.
1:22 I in fact am losing my shit rightnow, not only because my country got mentioned but because it got mentioned by such a handsome and entertaining man, thank you Brandon for blessing us with your awesome content
We love you Poland!!
@@Sma11Phr1e666 ty, I'm also studying finnish matter of fact
Stay based, my Polish friend.
@@sanitarycockroach9038 I always will, the blood that runs in my vains is slavic and I am not ashamed of it!
Just a side bar…”Fast 2k” is a fast set expanding foam..used for setting posts.. fill a bucket\cake mould and wow! A good day shooting. Ez to clean up the range.
It first i didnt recognize, but when he said PM63 Kino der totem showed on my mind on the instant.
Thanks for being a gun nerd so I can learn from a gun nerd. Great work.
its the actual Civillian Tactical, hello
Government plant bolt action ar15
Shut up boy I own you
Soyjak channel ass
He is a gun nut 😂 not nerd
I m Pole and i m loosing shit in comments
Slava Piorun
I'm also a Pole and I'm also loosing shit in comments
Well, there's 3 of us now!
@@WwZa7 hold your shits tightly
now there's 4 of us 🙂
First time watching one of your videos.... I thoroughly enjoyed it, definitely going to pass a link to the shooters I know that don't already know about you.
OH, I'm in your district and your quickly earning my vote sir!
when my grandad was in the polish people's army he told me a few not so fun stories of this gun, nice to see a video about what i thought was a pretty niche gun.
I honestly love the design for this one. When it's all packed up it definitely has a sci-fi flair about it.
Just Google 'konwersja rak' from Omnis Arma 🎉
Glad to see Brandon being a good father and spending time with his son
Ol illegitimate Wendi
It’s ironic how much freedom fits in such a compact soviet novelty
The way the bolt just… comes right at your eye as you look down the sights, gives me a feeling of uneasiness
I was in Polish army end of 90s and as mobile radar operator I was issue this little gun. Yes scare especially that we had to do guard duty, with loaded gun... Loads of time to do stupid thing, most likely where most accidents with this gun happened 😅
I remember from '80s, all guards in nearby fort (quartermasters stuff) had them as well.
"Jesus, Poland, can I buy a vowel?"
That's the thing, Poland is unfortunately so poor they can't afford vowels
They really lean on the "and sometimes Y" part
Yup
lol how Can I even pronouce your name? Christian syncski? @anzyszczynski4115
They just need to go into business with wales and it's sweet.
Poland isn't poor lol
When I saw the thumbnail for this video at first I thought it was for an entirely different gun. If you think the little charging plunger on the front of this gun is bad, you should look at the Russain PP-90M1.
It has a similar looking "charging button" that extends forward from the furniture almost to the end of the barrel, and it's *the only way* to charge the gun, requiring you to put your hand nearly in front of the muzzle itself to chamber your first round. (And it's a lot more fussy than this design, because the barrel doesn't reciprocate with the charging plunger, so you can't just drive the front of the gun into a wall to cock it. You are basically required to give it a reach around.)
"Mom, I want an MP-7."
"We have an MP-7 at home."
the MP-7 at home:
The Bobby Hill reference was great! “I dont know you!” Had me cracking up
Thats my purse! I don't know you
😯BERYL MENTIONED! 1:30
my body is ready.
Nuh uh
Nice. Im from Poland. Never heard of anybody racking the Rak(Cancer). I did hear that they would rack it of a wall. ( btw: its just the animal name some designers in the military here used, we had the airplane Moose for example). Mostly nowadays and from the 70's it was names from elemnts like Beryl, Tantal.
Hey Brandon I had that gun when I was in military. No one of my fellow soldiers was loading that gun on his leg but all of us new how to loud the built in to chamber with one hand . So when you have your arm stretch forward with rapid motion bring to yor body and back to straight arm again.
You welcome
Not just an issue when charging the weapon carelessly. If you were to get a batch of rounds that was misloaded with a weak charge, it can potentially keep firing the whole mag until it is empty. Used to happen from time to time with British SMGs that used an open breach/fixed pin design with weak batches of 9mm ammo.
0:49 The thumb was so close to the muzzle, that I was on the edge of my seat here.
"What I want for Christmas is a PM63 RAK"
"You'll poke your eye out"
POLANd MENTIONED POLAND MENTIONED PL GUROOOM