What are your feelings on this pistol? I bought one today for $150 dollars, it is the 7.62X25 model, I would say the finish is at 95+% good clean bore and all numbers matching. Anything to watch out for with these pistols? I have done a search and read some of the old postings and I just wondered if anyone had anything to say about them.
Chinese Tokarev?
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Kor
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I recently bought a Norinco Tokarev in 9mm, for about what you paid.
It's nice and slim, and might make a decent cheap car gun or spare CCW gun. On the one I got, the added-on safety actually works logically, i.e. "forward-for-FIRE" instead of the awkward "backward-for-FIRE" that I've seen on some. Mine also has the larger checkered plastic grips instead of the small ribbed metal military grips.
Downsides - front sight blade is narrow and hard to pick up at speed, rear sight is TALL, but shoots to point of aim. Didn't group all that tightly with Winchester white box 9mm from Wal-Mart. The hammer bites me a little. Removing and re-installing the grips is a pain, but at least once you get them on right, they stay on. Trigger is on the crunchy, gritty side, and seems to vary in weight from shot to shot. I've seen one other Chinese Tokarev where the safety lost its detent after a while, and just flopped back and forth from SAFE to FIRE unless the shooter held it in position with his thumb. If I need more than the two magazines I got with the gun(I usually try to get at least 4 per pistol) they may be hard to come by in 9mm(this gun uses shortened-fore-and-aft dedicated 9mm magazines, with a spacer in the magazine well, as opposed to converted 7.62 Tokarev magazines with a spacer inside the magazine itself).
It's nice and slim, and might make a decent cheap car gun or spare CCW gun. On the one I got, the added-on safety actually works logically, i.e. "forward-for-FIRE" instead of the awkward "backward-for-FIRE" that I've seen on some. Mine also has the larger checkered plastic grips instead of the small ribbed metal military grips.
Downsides - front sight blade is narrow and hard to pick up at speed, rear sight is TALL, but shoots to point of aim. Didn't group all that tightly with Winchester white box 9mm from Wal-Mart. The hammer bites me a little. Removing and re-installing the grips is a pain, but at least once you get them on right, they stay on. Trigger is on the crunchy, gritty side, and seems to vary in weight from shot to shot. I've seen one other Chinese Tokarev where the safety lost its detent after a while, and just flopped back and forth from SAFE to FIRE unless the shooter held it in position with his thumb. If I need more than the two magazines I got with the gun(I usually try to get at least 4 per pistol) they may be hard to come by in 9mm(this gun uses shortened-fore-and-aft dedicated 9mm magazines, with a spacer in the magazine well, as opposed to converted 7.62 Tokarev magazines with a spacer inside the magazine itself).
denfoote
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I had one of those. A Nork Tok. It was ok, I suppose. I really don't remember what happened to it. It was a long time ago. I either gave it away or left it with my ex wife, which amounts to the same thing!!!
I had one in 9mm.
It was very reliable and accuate, but after 2000 rounds, the area of the slide that c-ocks the hammer began flairing out and dragging on the frame rails.
I filed the flair off the slide surface and shot another 1000 rounds through it before trading it.
It was very reliable and accuate, but after 2000 rounds, the area of the slide that c-ocks the hammer began flairing out and dragging on the frame rails.
I filed the flair off the slide surface and shot another 1000 rounds through it before trading it.
MCgunner
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I had two come through my hands in 9mm. Both were decent for the money. I'd carry one condition two and forget about the stupid safety, or condition three if you're paranoid of condition two which is not the safest mode of carry I suppose.
They both shot okay. One had a terrible trigger that a smith cleaned up for the previous owner. It was a shooting buddy that owned it. Neither was very accurate, 4" at 25 yards being about the best they could do. Sights were stupid small. And, the manual that came with 'em said they were designed for a service life of 2500 rounds...
...which I did not test. I sold one for a small profit and traded one for a used boat trailer.
They both shot okay. One had a terrible trigger that a smith cleaned up for the previous owner. It was a shooting buddy that owned it. Neither was very accurate, 4" at 25 yards being about the best they could do. Sights were stupid small. And, the manual that came with 'em said they were designed for a service life of 2500 rounds...
...which I did not test. I sold one for a small profit and traded one for a used boat trailer.- Status