Tokarev TT-33

[woad_yurt]

I have a Chinese one and it's superb. Norinco used harder steel than did the others; I think they're the best of the lot.

 

[amd6547]

Here's a "crude" Tokarev for you...

 

[Ash]

Any sows ear can be made into a purse...

 

[amd6547]

Of course, sometimes it is not the pistol which is crude, but the owner.

 

[Ash]

Very true. Take heed, though, of the barbarian in your midst...

 

[The_Shootist]

I've heard that the safety is...ummm...sort of for show? Kinda unreliable. Sure, there are better CCW pistols out there, but I'd be leery of using one for CHL if carrying one with one in the pipe could have ugly consequences.

 

[woad_yurt]

There's a half cock hammer block that is very, very strong. Just cock fully and shoot.

 

[Ash]

Original Tokes don't have a safety other than half-cock.

Ash

 

[amd6547]

The add on safety on my Romanian is certainly not a carry safety for cocked and locked, but it does prove to be useful at the range...It does lock the trigger.
For me, the proper carry mode in normal civilian carry for the Tok is chamber empty, hammer cocked. This makes it quite easy to pull the slide. The Tok at half cock locks the trigger and slide. Pulling the slide to load the first round when the hammer is all the way down requires a hard rapid yank to avoid stopping at half cock and locking it up.
In more threatening circumstances, I would have no problem carrying chamber loaded, hammer at half cock, thumbing it at draw.
ASH, please describe the models of Tokarev you have owned, and what you consider to be crude about them.

 

[Onmilo]

I sure like my craptastic sows ear Romanian made piece of strangely accurate junk.

 

[Ash]

Never said they were crap or junk. "Crude, solid, thin, durable, reliable...they are good pistols, if rough around the edges," was, and is my thought.

 

[Alpacca 45]

I worked with a guy for a month in Africa and never realised he was carrying until he chose to show me.

He'd had a Tok in the wasteband of his trousers all that time with no sign of the thing printing. True he had a pretty impressive build, but was less than 5' 10" tall, and was wearing "summer" clothes.

 

[krs]

You're saying that you were so enthralled with his abs that you never looked at his, umm, waistband?

That IS impressive!

 

[Realbigo]

Buy it and Buy it now!! I want one so badly it tortures me.

 

[Mastiff]

I own 5. The 7.62x25 pistol is very easy to adapt to the 9x23 Winchester round, which is the ballistic duplicate to the 357 Magnum. It cost me all of $50 to do the conversion.
As stated elsewhere on this thread, the Yugo M-57 actually has a usable 1911 type safety. Before I got my Yugo's I carried the pistol on the half-cock and safety off. Now the Yugo's are my carry pistols, and I carry fully cocked and locked.
I forgot to mention that I got my first Tokarev's back in 1992. I shot over 55,000 rounds through one of them. It was my most accurate pistol, and I never had a FTF or FTE. For the money, I don't think there is a better deal in a handgun on the planet.

 

[HellsBattleMoose]

I am in Canada and I have a genuine Russian TT-33. I couldn't be happier with it. It is just beautiful. Now, the ammo is a little hard to come by, by it's worth it. The gun shoots just amazingly, and it sounds like a cannon. I was up on the range last week and I actually had one of the range officers on the rifle range come over to the handgun range because she thought I was firing a 308 on the hand gun range.

It's an awesome gun. Cost me $300. I got 4 clips with it, plus the holster and a carrying case for it. Couldn't be happier.