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This should be a sticky!

Just guessing here, I'm not a Tokarev expert: could the magazine spring be installed incorrectly?

Or even a distant neighbor, if you live where I do. 😒

Could also be a candidate for "restoration" (preservation would be a better word) as a fun project. See Mark Novak's YouTube channel (Anvil) for how he boils the metal (really! in tap water!) to turn that cruft on the tubes, back into bluing.

I just admit that I'm paranoid... and a moody loner. So, a moody paranoid loner with a gun. Next question?

I'm guessing you hook your lunches with bear paws if you find shooting that thing to be comfortable. I wear 2XL gloves and my 1917 Colt's trigger is almost within reach. :thumbup:

I think that may explain the problem. Whiskering is done with water, not oil, and a nonmarring abrasive such as a kitchen scouring pad.

Did you whisker the stock before first applying the oil?

...isn't that how it works for you? Eventually, the flow dribbled to nothing. You can imagine my thoughts as I wandered over to the airline's ohsh*t counter. I waited my turn, filled out the claim form, and almost casually, as an aside, the agent there wondered if there was a gun involved...

I never could figure out how to pour those B&T's.

Verrückt is the German for crazy, FWIW.

No problems with H110 in my CH4D.

I vote for rust blue, following of course after an absolutely brilliant polish.

CUP! I'm embarrassed to see you're right.

Jeez, I guess I'm lucky to have a heart that's cold and hard!

I was all set to drive over an hour to Kittery Trading Post tomorrow to pick up some 2400, the "go to" powder for 357 Mag (at least, that's what all you experts say). But with time on my hands today I entered some numbers from Lyman's reloading bible, 49th edition, and made a scatter plot...

The gun must be in checked baggage; that could be a secure backpack. Both your airline and the TSA have their rules & regulations online.

I looked in the Cast #4 book, the fastest powder listed for a 405 gr. bullet (Lyman 457193) is SR-4759. For the 1873 they go from 24 to 26.5 grains: 1258 fps, 12600 CUP to 1415 & 17700. For the 1895 they published 26.5/1429/19000 to 29.5/1577/25600.

K.M., I bet you'd get more responses if you told us what bullets you cast, and what you plan to shoot them through.

I wouldn't trust one of those, and I speak from experience. I was carrying my M36 that way when I squatted down to clear snow from under the tires. My ample belly wasn't enough to hold the gun down as my leg pushed the barrel up (I was carrying at about 2 o'clock). So, into the snow she went...