Tokarev drop safe?

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I know the Tokarev has no firing pin block like other firearms, but I'm wondering what the likelihood of a Tokarev to go off is if I were to drop it.

Disclaimer: I am not planning to not will i do this on purpose, just a question.
 
TT can go off if dropped on the muzzle hard enough. I wouldn't carry it with a round in a chamber.
 
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With a round in the chamber and the hammer fully dropped/resting on the pin the potential for the gun to go off if you bumped the hammer on anything is huge and very likely outcome.
I can't say I can believe the firing pin could set off the primer by inertia from being dropped on the muzzle with as much assurance. Maybe the hammer MIGHT have enough mass to strike the pin from the impact. There's a spring in there around the pin. It's not free floating. Still it could go off with hammer resting on pin and dropped on the muzzle. Again noone with half a brain would carry a TT33 in that manner.
At the half #### I would safely bet it's not physically possible unless you smashed it on the ground so hard you sheared the sear tip off and it somehow managed to wiggle its way out of the deep notch in the hammer and at the same time fell out of being sandwiched in the trigger group so fast that the hammer somehow still had enough oomph to strike the firing pin hard enough to initiate the primer lol Aka not physically possible.
The half #### on the TT33 is actually very sound if you take apart the trigger group and see exactly how it's put together/understand how it actually works vice just saying "it could fail". The half #### sear notch in the hammer is excessively deep, the whole sear almost slips up into it with the forward part of the spur almost covering the whole face of the sear.
I would not ever put a round in the chamber with the hammer fully resting on the pin and holster it though. That's just stupid with any design similar to the TT33.
So much ignorance of the design/internal mechanisms of the TT33 on these boards. Lots of half informed opinions based on half baked or zero knowledge of the internal mechanisms of the design.
 
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They carry the tokarev mag in not chambered. In a military setting and in that time frame they were not thinking quick draw and engage. Its the same way the army recommends carrying the browning hi power. I do realize a lot of CF do cocked and locked.

here is some proof. Also proof that Russia is a crazy country and SJWs and liberals need not apply.

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They carry the tokarev mag in not chambered. In a military setting and in that time frame they were not thinking quick draw and engage. ]
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Agreed. I used to shoot from the holster on firing line with one in the chamber and half #### with the Tokarev. I realized it was a waste of time as you still had to fully #### the hammer back with the support thumb after you drew it anyway. It was an awkward movement.
I now carry it in the holster with a magazine on, empty chamber and with the hammer cocked to full ####. I just draw from the holster and I can rack the action in this manner with barely even the tips of my fingers on the slide to chamber a round once I get the pistol to chest height with the muzzle pointing down range.
Is much faster than trying to awkwardly #### the hammer to full #### with a crossed thumb from support hand.
 
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