hey do you guys want to play Airsoft you want to shoot each other let's go guys I don't like Joe all right guys on the count of three we're gonna start airsofting one two three go break one day you can't shoot me airsoft airsoft I got you Airsoft hey Brandon yeah you want to team up you you want to get him oh I'll come over there yeah okay I'll be right over all right no I'll come to you call your hits yeah Brandon you have to call your head hits [Music] foreign Grantham we have a very interesting treat and that is terrible weather but the bigger treat is the VSS a very interesting weapon system I would say the vibeius mica now we have to give a big thank you to Brandon Herrera of course for letting us uh use this guy that he built but there are some differences from a typical military BSS and we'll talk about that talk about those but this is about as close as we can get to the Russian counterpart that you actually see so it is a really real treat for us today and Grantham the VSS but 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without further Ado we're gonna go ahead and get into it we have to note that this isn't going to be your typical Grantham review because uh the rounds for the VSS are pretty hard to get your hands on so we only have about 100 rounds here and they cost a lot so we will do as much as we can with that this is definitely more of a general overview of the VSS now we have to give a big thank you to Brandon Herrera come on in what's going on buddy it's good to see you man that's a weird handshake but it works how to switch sides a little bit um so I can't thank you enough for letting us do a little review and I know you've done a video on the VSS um what do you want to say about the VSS what is the operating system what is the caliber these are all very interesting facts yes so the VSS is kind of interesting this one of course is not a military VSS this is kind of more of what you'd see you couldn't get a military BSS with crime with crime yeah no once once crime is involved everything everything my lawyer has said that that was a joke the more you know no but yeah the the actual gun that you killed me with yeah is actually a parts kit that was made it was a civilian parts kit uh we actually got here and were able to uh re-weld uh we we put this together because of course it was all chopped up you should come here I bought the kit once it was here and we've got of course uh the the internals of espresso are obviously not allowed to come over either because that's all sorts of crazy sure but those the funny thing is that the suppressor internals on the actual VSS if you look at their their literal washers they are it is not a good suppressor design I'm sure the Russian people will come in and be like it is the best suppressor design but it really is not it is terrible okay so this is they they had yeah so there are so many people that are talking about how the VSS is one of the quietest guns ever made and their suppressor was so much better than this one we actually put modern baffles in here uh to try to make it as quiet as possible that's why it's not quiet because you didn't use the bad baffles exactly I didn't go to [ __ ] Home Depot and weld in a couple washers are you doing what is going on dude Cody you're ruining the shot you gotta be [ __ ] kidding me right now Cody so the VSS operates on uh actually long stroke gas Russian magic Russian magic it was a short stroke pissing system correct long stroke no [ __ ] so it's just a really short long stroke uh which is we can sympathize you know same and it fires the 9x39 which if you take a look at right here is a pretty interesting cartridge and does in many ways look very similar to another cartridge that a lot of people will be familiar with that's 300 black uh it's a similar concept too it's a very similar concept which is a big heavy round uh necked up from a common uh you know casing that they have and firing subsonic which means it's going under the speed of sound which means that the suppressor so long as it is capturing uh you know doing what suppressor should do you're not going to get that supersonic crack of a typical round like without a 556 that makes for a very quiet weapon but as we know all this talk is very cheap what's better shooting actually shooting it so uh you can see the magazines are very interesting uh in many ways very similar to your typical AK magazines we have the Locking we have the front lug we have the rear lug right here and they feed in just like a typical AK mag where the front lug gets on there and then it rocks back into place let's go ahead and let's load this up sort of pull the charging handle back release it this weapon does have a couple issues um that's not indicative of the military VSS but we'll go ahead and we'll see how uh how good the zeros we just attached the optic and uh you know Beggars aren't users right Micah yeah [Music] ready that big old heavy wrap big round big heavy round hits with some Authority um The Recoil um is is pretty mild uh there really isn't a whole lot in and I know this is probably just my obsession with the VSS overall but it feels like a pretty handy little package to be honest you know with a lot of 300 black guns you still have something like the size of an AR but I really like I mean except for the stock kind of being pretty long but like the the handguard it does feel handy it's kind of hard to explain but it's perhaps just due to how comp like compact the actual action is that it feels like a weapon that's pretty easy to maneuver overall I would definitely compare the recoil um to 300 black it's a little bit more Stout that was the first couple rounds out of the VSS um definitely a real treat we I think we should try firing this a little bit further don't you think do you want to try shooting it I do you're not allowed this is 278 grain as far as the size of the projectile itself so definitely heavier than the 300 maybe something a little bit closer to the newer 8.6 wouldn't you say Micah as far as like guns go this is like it's all downhill from here I don't think anything's as cool as this yeah you can die now yeah in a game of Airsoft yeah is it zero no okay oh that is satisfying [Music] foreign it's got a lot of thumb I would not call this a 300 Blackout comparison I would say this is an eight six comparison agree with you Mike I think it's much more comparable to an 8.6 it is a heavy hitting round it actually is a pretty good design I would say I actually like it quite a bit I like the round I wish we had an 8.6 right here to compare those two so we have a real treat here today we have a donut operator you uh have you fired the VSS before no I still haven't fired really what okay you're gonna fire right now then I thought I thought too much to know that does that tumble at all for me I know nothing about the 9x39 that was borderline sexual sounding yeah it wasn't sexual until you said the WAP like that was really good expansion it looks like and this is just an FMJ by the way but it looks like it did extremely well in the gel Ukrainian trench distance that's good yeah hi hi yep all right good yeah oh no way there is no [ __ ] way all right give it another one all right oh my gosh oh that doesn't sound real oh steal that was a good shot Cody you're up [Laughter] well it's been a very wet very cold rain session right Micah it's off whole Cameron's having a little bit of trouble but you know what we had a good time getting some Hands-On time with the VSS so now that we've shot a bunch with it we've uh had some fun doing a little bit of ballistic testing let's talk a little bit about this design so there's a couple very interesting Keynotes here so obviously we don't have the actual Russian baffles I would guess venture to guess based off the baffled design what looked like washers that were kind of inverted at an angle to each other that the sound signature would be a little bit louder from what we're seeing right now right now we have a very quiet weapon definitely within the 300 black range and I imagine about as quiet if not quieter than the 8.6 really a very pleasant weapon to fire wouldn't you agree Micah I loved I love the snow it definitely thumps a little bit we can see out the front there we have a pretty large exit board diameter to ensure that we don't have any types of baffle strikes now moving up from there a couple things to look at are the sights I think the sights are really interesting in many ways because I wouldn't really expect them to hold that well the sights themselves are on the suppressor which is actually detachable so we do have the front sight so we have our front sight right here then moving back we have a fairly good sight radius to the rear sight now obviously this is graduated just like your typical AK site now typically this would be under spring pressure to ensure that it would not be flopping around or anything but we have a broken part unfortunately you can't just call up the factory and get a new VSS rear sight leaf spring so it is going to be what it's at um so right near right now what Brandon's going to do is he's going to go ahead and remove the suppressor for us since this is his gun I'm going to let him do it I don't want to break it there's a little push button here at the base right here I'm going to hold the mic up to you yeah no worries so uh just like anything else if you really want to turn something on or you know screw around with it you just press that little button firmly at the base of the shaft but see that's what I'm talking about about this weapon actually holding zero with the iron sights you can see that it just screws into places and is held by the indent um you wouldn't think that they are inside to be terribly on but uh for us they ended up being pretty good so pulling this apart we have our spring here that kind of keeps tension on the baffles inside of the suppressor itself this whole tube is the suppressor but this right here is the barrel so we have something really cool here where we have uh holes that are drilled along the rifling of the barrel itself so that is what vents gas early on into the suppressor which is partially what makes it so quiet well let's just dock real quick here yeah it reminds me of a very giant AK-74 muscle device so on the left side right here you can see we have a nice little place for a sling right there and then of course we have a hand guard very small because we mostly have a suppressor you don't want to be grabbing the suppressor even though some the subsonic 9x39 is it doesn't get it too hot this thing can definitely get hotter just don't put your hand on a suppressor it's a bad idea this is a 10 rounder you have 20 rounders and 30 rounders they are of course incredibly hard to get in the United States and we have the 10 rounder so big or certain choosers right we have the charging handle right here on the bolt we've talked a little bit about the bolt before and then of course we have our safety a very tiny safety right there easy to reach with your fingers and pretty easy to actuate actually don't have a lot of complaints on that so we have the optic rail right at the side and then of course what we always have to do on Grantham we're gonna go ahead we're gonna ghost that trigger together with Brandon come on in here Brandon you want to put your finger on there first right there yeah right there I'll have my finger every year okay we're gonna feel into that so what's funny about the VSS trigger is it is just like a continuous pull the entire time there's no wall at all so when you pull it it just it's just mushy all the way through and then it just lets off there's no wall there's no one Sage two stage the stage is you're going to be firing a VSS yeah because it's also it's a Striker Fired mechanism unlike the AK because the ak's hammer fired it is a very odd weapon uh in many ways uh going back from there we do have the stock right here now what's really interesting about the stock uh first off it always reminds me of an SVD in many ways just a little bit smaller but what's even cooler about it is if we press that button it comes right off so that means that Brandon will be making this into an AS Val which is pretty much the same thing but with a different stock and grip I always thought it was interesting how easy it is to change that out do you know if that was actually used in the field in any to any extent it might have been used if I had to guess like just for ease of Transport or whatever but I don't know if there's a practice for that it's cool the Practical reason is so we have the dust cover off right here and unlike the AK we can't really fire it with the dust cover off it's just it's not meant to do that but we can see we have the action Spring right here and then right here we have the striker spring this is not a um an AK trigger it is a different type of trigger mechanism so it's a very interesting mechanism now I know we've been getting a lot of light strikes but what do you think is causing that so it's actually it's hard to say it could be the ammo it could be a lot of things one of the things that we thought about doing is kind of adding a buffer here to keep a little bit more tension on the striker um that's one of the ways we've looked at kind of solving that but also this is entirely original the way it came right now like this entire Striker assembly and I'm kind of hesitant to mess with it yeah I mean that's that's real Russian for better or worse I I get you and it's tough because like uh if someone in Russia were to you know build out an AR-15 and then the only ammunition they had was wolf they're gonna have an AR-15 that doesn't work really well you know so so many things are ammunition independent there's so many factors that go into play to making a weapon uh truly reliable and it's tough being that we don't really have a lot of the original things when it comes to this particular weapon system but uh very interesting in many ways so that brings us to the end of the BSS um I wish we could do a longer review on this and until things improve in certain parts of the world or until uh we make our own we're not going to be able to do that but it was a real treat to be able to at least shoot an example of of it even if it had a couple ammunition issues and that type of thing um really cool wouldn't you agree Mike probably one of the cooler guns we've gotten our hands on wait wait the coolest single-handedly the coolest today wait cooler than the no it's the coolest cooler than the than the M1 Malone well since we are on the range with uh Brandon that means that we have to do what why'd you give me the black chair we like these we have to do a white cloud penetration test that brings us in the VSS we're going to do what we always do and we're gonna go to our dad advice with an actual Dad Cody Cody what's some dad advice for all the dads out there and all my lost fans 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