I recently purchased one of those $200.00 Bulgarian Maks that were imported by C.A.I.. I finally got around to firing it for function. I first touched off a couple of Hornady Critical Defense 95 grain. It went bang bang as expected, fairly mild recoil nothing exceptional.
I pulled the magazine with the expensive Hornady stuff and loaded a magazine of PPU Serbian FMJ plinking stuff. Holy Cow the Serb stuff was hot. It make the Mak a nasty thing to hang on to, and it is a heavy piece of iron.I was resting the pistol on a firm rest and the first round doubled.
I'll warn my wife before she fires it. :-)