There then arose an urgent demand for a light and simple weapon capable of a high volume of fire, and the answer to this was the PPSh-41, designed by Georgii Shpagin.

PPSh-41 Machinist Diagrams upper receiver lower receiver receiver-trigger receiver catch bolt bolt face bolt handle-extractor pivot block pivot pin-ejector safety knob guide-buffer-firing pin magazine latch PPSh Main Page-History/PPSh Links

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9mm Conversion of the PPSh-41 The Germans in WWII took captured PPShs and converted them by inserting a 9mm barrel and a magazine adapter to accept MP 38 and 40 magazines.

The PPSh-41 was one of the two captured SMGs that were considered to be modified for 9 mm x 19 ammunition and Finnish magazines around 1942 - 1943, but that project didn't go beyond prototype-stage, as SMG M/44 production was seen as better alternative.

This has been reproduced from "The Official PPSh-41 Submachine Gun Manual" translated by Major James F. Gebhardt, U.S. Army (Retired) Chapter VI LOADING the DRUM MAGAZINE

If you are having problems with your PPSh, the first thing to check is the relation of the upper receiver to the lower receiver. This seems to be the cause of most problems with the PPSh. It only takes the upper receiver to be raised 1/16th" too much to start causing problems. See 'Problem' below: "Fires round (s) after trigger released. 'Cause' and 'Solution'- #1."PPSh Troubleshooting

The two biggest problems have been the nature of the construction of the PPSh-41 subguns they started with and the fact that they used a lightly loaded Chinese 7.62X25 round in their versions' development.

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