My Romanian TTC In It's Sunday Finest

[Capybara]

Last year, I was asking advice and exploring options about what do with my Romanian TTC's dangerous safety that actually was flopping around because someone who owned it before I did evidently lost the safety retaining spring. I knew that I wanted to get rid of this stupid ATF mandated useless safety but that would leave two ugly, very visible holes in the frame. What to do.

After much hemming and hawing, I decided to order the Marschal grips that they make that cover the safety holes. After a long 6 month wait, the grips arrived and I just installed them. I really like how they spruced up the looks of my TTC as well as they are highly functional in covering up the holes on both sides of the frame. If you own a TTC or really any other ComBloc pistol, 1911, Marschal Grips get the thumbs up from me, these things are beautifully crafted.

 

[Ks5shooter]

Looking forward to seeing a target!!

 

[Capybara]

You mean I have to shoot this thing? I thought I would just oil the walnut and polish the metal!

 

[bannockburn]

Capybara

Those Marschal grips really look great on your Romainian TTC!

Definitely all dressed up with somewhere to go... namely to the nearest range!

 

[Capybara]

Capybara

Those Marschal grips really look great on your Romainian TTC!

Definitely all dressed up with somewhere to go... namely to the nearest range!

Thanks Bannockburn! It will be part of the gang on my next range trip!

 

[Eugen]

Those grips look great!
Everyone needs at least one Tokarov. I have a 1939 Russian Tula.

 

[Capybara]

Those grips look great!
Everyone needs at least one Tokarov. I have a 1939 Russian Tula.

Agreed, they are fun guns, the "Commie 1911"! Wow, if you have a decent condition 1939 Russian TT-33, that's worth some money. They are simple and well made guns, great shooters. I wish the 7.62x25 round was as popular here as 7.62x39 has been. Have you tried reloading 7.62x25? I may give it a try at some point as I also have two CZ52s.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

Purty, plus they look as though they might have always been on there -- I like!

I did something kinda-sorta in line with this on my Husqvarna 1907, which I bought with a cracked grip. Reproduction grips weren't available at the time, but I found this pair from a dude on eBay that look like they belong:

 

[Capybara]

Purty, plus they look as though they might have always been on there -- I like!

I did something kinda-sorta in line with this on my Husqvarna 1907, which I bought with a cracked grip. Reproduction grips weren't available at the time, but I found this pair from a dude on eBay that look like they belong:

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Very good looking grips, they look perfect! Which caliber is that, I'm not very familiar with the Swedish guns?

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

Very good looking grips, they look perfect! Which caliber is that, I'm not very familiar with the Swedish guns?

I've also got two Husqvarna 1887 revolvers, three Swedish rolling blocks and two Husqvarna sporting rifles, so perhaps it's time to to admit that I may have a problem.



The Husqvarna 1907 was originally an FN product (FN 1903) that was adopted by and later produced in Sweden. It's simple blowback -- the design is almost a straight duplicate of the Colt M1903 Pocket Hammerless, scaled up and fitted with a slide stop. Looks a lot like a Tokarev!

It's also almost the only pistol chambered in 9x20 Browning Long, which you can think of as a .38 ACP/Super case trimmed back 3mm and downloaded. It's a hotter loading than .380 ACP, lots of fun to shoot (check out the muzzle flash!)

 

[Capybara]

Interesting reverb from the walls of your shooting range there. Looks like a good time.
I take it you reload 9x20 Browning Long? Or does PPU still load that?

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

Interesting reverb from the walls of your shooting range there. Looks like a good time.
I take it you reload 9x20 Browning Long? Or does PPU still load that?

I reload all sorts of interesting orphans, including this one. Maybe PPU makes loaded 9x20 ammo -- they definitely make the brass. I have some I bought from Grafs, along with about a hundred trimmed .38 Super cases. Both seem to work equally well.

 

[Capybara]

That's cool, keeping the old flame alive. I think my local gun store had one of those Husqvarna's in this caliber. I looked at it about a year ago, liked it, but it wasn't a bargain and I had never even heard of the cartridge so I passed.

You know how it is as far as having too many rounds to load for. I already am doing .223, 9mm, 9x18 Mak, .45 ACP, .30-06, 7.62x39, 7.62x54R, I had to sell off my Model 1894 that was .30-30, a bunch of Enfields, Mausers, etc.
in a divorce. I get overwhelmed by having so many different types of brass, projectiles, dies, load data, powder types. I've been wanting to streamline the cartridges I reload for a long time so I'm stopping buying new caliber guns.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

You know how it is as far as having too many rounds to load for. I already am doing .223, 9mm, 9x18 Mak, .45 ACP, .30-06, 7.62x39, 7.62x54R, I had to sell off my Model 1894 that was .30-30, a bunch of Enfields, Mausers, etc.
in a divorce. I get overwhelmed by having so many different types of brass, projectiles, dies, load data, powder types. I've been wanting to streamline the cartridges I reload for a long time so I'm stopping buying new caliber guns.

Good luck with that brother!

I'm so far down that road that, to paraphrase Stanley Kubrick, I've stopped worrying and learned to love the oddball ammo chaos.

 

[Gordon]

I have a very cherry 1907 Swedish , when I got it it was in .380 as by far most are , it was ok but only the hottest euro ball .380 was fairly reliable. I found a new stainless 9mm Long barrel for it and bought 200 PPU cartridges, and they are fairly reasonable pre Covid . The gun shot much better but kicked pretty hard. I looked all over for the 9mm long recoil spring but only found a couple for alot of money and shipping from Sweden. THen all of a sudden a factory original new in wrapper 9mm largo barrel with matched recoil spring came up aon Ebay and I won it for around 100 , as I remember. So I put that factory dark color barrel in 9mm long and the longer beefier factory recoil spring and in my three factory mags get 100 percent reliability , very reasonable recoil , shoots to the sights at 25 meters with PPU factory ball. Shot it over the chron and it was super sonic - about 1150 FPS 100 grain bullet. .
I'm thinning out the herd but really hate to get rid of my "long slide Swedish Colt 1908 +P "

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

I have a very cherry 1907 Swedish , when I got it it was in .380 as by far most are , it was ok but only the hottest euro ball .380 was fairly reliable. I found a new stainless 9mm Long barrel for it and bought 200 PPU cartridges, and they are fairly reasonable pre Covid . The gun shot much better but kicked pretty hard. I looked all over for the 9mm long recoil spring but only found a couple for alot of money and shipping from Sweden. THen all of a sudden a factory original new in wrapper 9mm largo barrel with matched recoil spring came up aon Ebay and I won it for around 100 , as I remember. So I put that factory dark color barrel in 9mm long and the longer beefier factory recoil spring and in my three factory mags get 100 percent reliability , very reasonable recoil , shoots to the sights at 25 meters with PPU factory ball. Shot it over the chron and it was super sonic - about 1150 FPS 100 grain bullet. .
I'm thinning out the herd but really hate to get rid of my "long slide Swedish Colt 1908 +P "

My experiment along these lines was with 9x19 Korean aftermarket barrels for the CZ52. I had two of the pistols and bought a total of 4 extra 9mm barrels; on one barrel for each pistol I took a .38 Super reamer to the chamber so I could shoot it with 9x23 Largo ammo. Largo fed a bit better than 9x19, probably because the magazine was dimensioned for the 7.62x25 Tokarev. I even bought a extra slide so I could swap cartridges by just swapping the slide assembly (I later had the Largo slide hard chromed to avoid possible confusion.)

To get closer to the original subject of this thread, I also fitted a set of custom 'glitter carbon fiber' grips held with a spare retention clip that I also had chromed. Later I found a set of more conventional checkered wooden grips that felt better in the hand. Finally about two years ago I realized I had largely outgrown this sort of stuff, put both pistols back into military configuration and sold them with all of their accessories (1 extra slide, 5 extra barrels, 3 extra grip sets and 4 extra magazines). But it was a lot of fun at the time!

 

[doubleh]

You mean I have to shoot this thing? I thought I would just oil the walnut and polish the metal!

NO oil on wood. Paste wax and clean it out of the checkering with a toothbrush.

 

[Capybara]

NO oil on wood. Paste wax and clean it out of the checkering with a toothbrush.

What about Howards Feed N Wax? I've used that with great success on my other Walnut stocks, makes them look new.
These grips are listed as "oil finish" from Marschal so you're saying that other oils will mess them up?

 

[doubleh]

"Oil finish" probably means some kind of drying oil, durability to be determined by use. Howard's Feed & Wax is absolute junk IMO, more oil than wax. Use the real stuff, a paste wax. There was a huge thread about Howard's on that rimfire forum several years and in the end no one would use it. I bought some and after one use filed it in the dumpster. I really, really hate to just throw something away but did this willingly.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

Ever tried Birchwood Casey gunstock wax? I first used it as part of a BC gunstock finishing kit for a percussion rifle I completed back in high school and have just stayed with it.

Don't know whether it's better than something else, but it's worked well for me in my rather dry local climate.

https://www.birchwoodcasey.com/products/gun-stock-wax-3-fl-oz-bottle.html

 

[JCooperfan1911]

I could do without that commie star myself.

 

[Capybara]

"Oil finish" probably means some kind of drying oil, durability to be determined by use. Howard's Feed & Wax is absolute junk IMO, more oil than wax. Use the real stuff, a paste wax. There was a huge thread about Howard's on that rimfire forum several years and in the end no one would use it. I bought some and after one use filed it in the dumpster. I really, really hate to just throw something away but did this willingly.

What's a recommendation for a good paste wax then? I'm clueless as I've never used a wax, other than on a car.

 

[Capybara]

I could do without that commie star myself.

I have other Commie pistols, Tokarevs and Makarovs, with stars on the grips so it doesn't bug me, comes with owning Commie pistols. Marschal even
offers grip with the Hammer & Sickle, which struck me as dumb as I've never seen a Commie pistol of any kind with a Hammer & Sickle on the grips but
maybe I haven't gone down the Commie gun rabbit hole deep enough.

 

[Capybara]

Ever tried Birchwood Casey gunstock wax? I first used it as part of a BC gunstock finishing kit for a percussion rifle I completed back in high school and have just stayed with it.

Don't know whether it's better than something else, but it's worked well for me in my rather dry local climate.

https://www.birchwoodcasey.com/products/gun-stock-wax-3-fl-oz-bottle.html

I have not tried that. So you like what it does for the stocks?

 

[Old Dog]

What's goin' on with THR this week? Another gun I'd never considered buying, but now have to keep an eye out (and wallet handy) for?

Love the Maks, but I always thought of the Tok as ugly, but now, strangely I need one. You guys.

Enablers.