Makarov Carry

[.455_Hunter]

Quick question...

Is a Makarov safe to carry with the safety-off and a round in the chamber?

 

[Shadow 7D]

as long as you keep your booger hook off the bang switch.
lots of people CC the Mak.

 

[docnyt]

I carry it safety on, just like a 1911. I don't feel that safe with a floating firing pin.

 

[GLOOB]

^ ?? Doesn't the firing pin float, even with the hammer block safety engaged?

 

[PabloJ]

Quick question...

Is a Makarov safe to carry with the safety-off and a round in the chamber?

I think it should be safe if de-cocked but......I had both Bajkal 9x18 and a Tokarev but never felt comfortable with either piece. I can't recall whether it was because of their infantry wave tactics in Great Patriotic War or shear lack of fear for radioactive waste. I know when both were designed individual did not matter in their state and that was no good imo.

 

[Shadow 7D]

^^^^^^^^
What????

Both the Mak and Tok (OT BTW)
are proven designs, more than able within their manuals of arms

 

[M2 Carbine]

Is a Makarov safe to carry with the safety-off and a round in the chamber?

Yes.

 

[dashootist]

fear for radioactive waste

Please elaborate on this

 

[NOLAEMT]

Chernobyl...

I think he is referring to the mindset of the soviet military elite with regard to their soldiers, and the resulting chance that those two pistols are not as safe as contemporary designs.

 

[Janos Dracwlya]

I've always carried mine with the safety engaged; I wouldn't feel especially safe without that since there's no other hammer block.

By the way, the floating firing pin dimples the primer of a round when it's chambered. If, for some reason, you chamber the same round repeatedly, the dimple can eventually become so deep that it can fire upon being chambered. It happened to a friend of mine.

Edited to add: None of this stopped me from carrying mine; only lucking into a Sig P-225 at a great price (before all the surplus ones appeared) relegated my Mak to secondary carry gun.

 

[EmGeeGeorge]

I carried a Mak for a long time... round in the chamber, safety on... I had a crappy IWB holster to start... it was fine, much better with a decent holster...

even dropped it once getting out of my truck, and it landed right on the hammer... enought force to scratch it a bit... didnt go off...

 

[hammerklavier]

I've heard of numerous people who carry a round in the chamber, safety off, and decocked, so your first shot is double action. I would suggest this route, if you can't/won't train yourself to sweep off the safety on the draw.