Tt33

Innavedaw said:
Actually, I am comparing it to my stock Norinco 1911...I wouldn't even consider comparing it to my Sig or my M&P. And an 8-10" group at 15m was sorta my point...it's like the SKS of handguns. Still functional and a blast to shoot, but my advice was more tuned to a rifle guy who's getting his first handgun. If you are used to MOA groupings with your rifle, a handgun is humbling...a TT33 more so.

I actually used my TT at an outlaw CQB match last year and it worked fine - I didn't score a lot of pistol hits, but I startled the crap out of the guy shooting next to me every time I popped off a shot...I love it, but I have reasonable expectations for it.
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My TT-33, firing spam can surplus, can run circles around my Norinco 1911, in terms of accuracy. My P-38 is a bit better than the TT-33, but not by much, and my Beretta beats them all.

The TT-33 can be an accurate pistol, but there will be a lot of variance. Pre-war to early 1941 are well made. From then to the end of the war... Well, they needed to crank them out as fast as they could, so quality control dropped. By all accounts, the post-war ones got back to pre-war quality.

Solid, well made, simple guns. The trigger is surprisingly non-Russian - it doesn't suck at all. In fact, quite comparable to a lot of mid-range 1911's.

Snappy gun with weird recoil. It doesn't hit like a .45, or even a 9mm, but you can "feel" the snap of that round kicking out at really high velocity.

At the price these go for, they're easily the highest quality for $$ value commonly available in Canada right now. And don't panic about corrosive ammo. Just clean your gun after you shoot it, which you should be doing anyway.
 
canmic said:
I shot one at 15m using a benchrest front rest the other day, just for kicks. I was managing 3" groups with about 1 shot in 5 being a 'flier' about 4-5" from the centre of the group.
Shot one 3 shot group that had all 3 holes touching.

This thing can shoot better than I can make it shoot, which is great for an under $200 gun shooting ammo that's under $0.20 a shot and a real calibre
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Aye, they are no slouch for accuracy. They get a bad reputation for some reason.
Easily more than acceptable for a combat military surplus design.

No BS we actually shot mine from the prone at 100 meters at the gun club a few years back at a torso silhouette steel plate and actually got about 2 hits on it in 16 rounds! lol
 
blitz2377 said:
Finding parts for it is real hard. With surplus who knows what you'll get. Fun pistol for sure.
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When you can literally replace EVERY part for $179... Finding parts is not real hard.

Also, several vendors have conversion kits to 9mm if you feel like changing things up now and then. You can swap back and forth in less than a minute. Or, for about twice the price of the conversion kit, you could just pick up another tt33 in 9mm and have both at your disposal.

I grabbed the Norinco clone to get bigger grips for my mitts. The nice thing about guns like this as your first pistol, is that they really can't depreciate any further, so when the time comes to upgrade, you can usually sell them on the EE for very close to what you paid for it.

 
kodiakjack said:
When you can literally replace EVERY part for $179... Finding parts is not real hard.

Also, several vendors have conversion kits to 9mm if you feel like changing things up now and then. You can swap back and forth in less than a minute. Or, for about twice the price of the conversion kit, you could just pick up another tt33 in 9mm and have both at your disposal.

I grabbed the Norinco clone to get bigger grips for my mitts. The nice thing about guns like this as your first pistol, is that they really can't depreciate any further, so when the time comes to upgrade, you can usually sell them on the EE for very close to what you paid for it.

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lol Exactly.
My friend just bought his first TT33.
Then he bought a second one for $150 off the EE as a parts donor/cannibal gun if required.
They are so cheap, it's actually more feasable to buy whole guns instead of parts!
 
My kid has one, only problem is it doesn't eject properly,or consistently.No idea why.

The biggest complaint seems to be the grips,I'm just surprised there aren't aftermarket parts,ie sight rail to attach a red dot ,grips etc.
 
ratherbefishin said:
My kid has one, only problem is it doesn't eject properly,or consistently.No idea why.
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Any chance he's using the Polish surplus mags in his (they're the ones stamped with an "11" in a circle on the baseplate)... I find those mags have feed lips that are a little to high and keep the slide from moving freely - when I use those mags, I get (mostly) reliable ejection, but sometimes the slide hangs up a bit on the return and I get a FTF.
 
I have some pre war Russians, some war-time Russians, sole Polish and some Norincos. Until I got the Polish one, accuracy ranged from fair to good.

The Pole is good-very good. I used it in a CQB match once and was surprised that under pressure, it shot better than my M&P.

At that price, everyone should have one.
 
grelmar said:
Any chance he's using the Polish surplus mags in his (they're the ones stamped with an "11" in a circle on the baseplate)... I find those mags have feed lips that are a little to high and keep the slide from moving freely - when I use those mags, I get (mostly) reliable ejection, but sometimes the slide hangs up a bit on the return and I get a FTF.
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I have some feed issues with my Polish mags as well. About 1 in 64 will FTFeed.
 
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