Tokarev's the Russian design gone wild through the world <3

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I don't know about you guys, but i know i am a Tokarev lover.
I have many !
Russian design in 1930. The original TT-30
Although real production of them didn't start until 1933 many alterations were made to the TT-30 (which had a removable back strap)
Leading to the TT-33, that started the spin offs throughout the world
These are some of my beautys !

Romanian Tokarev TT-C 7.62x25 8 round mag
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Serbian M57 Tokarev 7.62x25 9 round mag (combat grip from Russia)
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Hungarian Tokarev SUPER-12 9mm (Tokagypt 58) 8 round mag, these Tokarev's came with a 9mm barrel and mag plus 7.62x25 barrel and mag
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Lets see some Tokarev #### fellas !
 
I never understood why a TT-33 needs a different mazagine for 9x19 and the CZ-52 pistol doesn't. You just swap barrels.
 
I love the TT 33,even though I can't shoot it well worth a damm. There were a lot of nice examples available a few years ago.
 
Ok, let's get some facts straight.
- you don't have Romanian TT-C, it's Soviet handgun with modern Russian export markings
- Super 12 are commecial reworks of Tokagypt but it's not the same. Latter is proper military contract.
- TT30 production started in 1931
- While Tokarev was a great firearm designer and came up with several distinctive and successful designs, his pistol design failed at trials and he was tasked to come up with better offer and quick. So he took German 7.63x25 round, Browning FN 1903 as base design, barrel lock from another Browning - m1911, came up with his own hammer assembly unit and refined all of this so primitive Soviet metallurgy and industry would be able to manufacture it, and manufacture cheap. This is how TT30 was born.

From 1930x point of view it was successful design, not without some minor flaws, it got the job done.
 
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And he was close friends with Stalin.Hence the SVT 40 being accepted over the competitors.Well as close to a sociopath as you can get and remain alive.
 
I like the Tokarev and now with offerings such as the m70a it is even affordable to shoot. And as full size single stacks goes, it is thin... Heavy but thin! My Hi Power and 1911 in 9mm look like beasts sitting next to my Toks. I have to go to one of my 380s for a thinner gun.
 
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I've always wanted a mint tok, but I've only seen blems for sale
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You have to look for a post war Russian TT33, I’ve got one that is really clean. It has almost no wear anywhere and the barrel is mirror shiny, if I do my part it can shoot pretty decently as well. I somehow managed to find a left hand kydex holster for it, it’s a keeper and all the parts are numbers matching including mags.

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They are very under estimated. With hard ball ammo, they are very lethal. I found it had better penetration than my 357 shooting through a heavy wooden block. They are slim, built like a tank & easy to disassemble. I have owned several different versions. I found the Later Polish Tok is very accurate "good point of aim". The russian ones seem to shoot High & right. Amazingly enough an Ebay site from Russia will send Tok parts to Canada. "no frames". They also have gas masks, radiation detectors ect.
 
The person who introduced me to pistol shooting told me to pick a handgun based on how it feels in the hand, not based off of brand, caliber, etc. The tok is the first handgun that felt right to me. Purchased a Polish tt33 years ago. Recently i picked up a Yugo M57, and the slightly longer grip is much nicer, but It jammed up a couple of times. I'm waiting for warmer weather to figure out what is happening with it.
 
Despite needing gloves to avoid chewing up the web of my hand I love TT-33 pistols. I have two Chinese Type 54 and an unissued, unfired Polish as well. I have a very nice set of wood grips on the way for the Pole, even though I will likely never fire it.
 
Heading to the Range tomorrow, Thnx for reminding me to bring my Chinese Type 54, it has wrap around grips, alwayz wondered how those compare to regular grips. Only had it out once, was pretty awesome pistol to shoot. Def. want a Polish or Russian {or both} to ad to the collection.. Cheerz~
 
Yes the super 12 was orginally 9mm only and actually called Tokagypt 58
It was made for the Egyptian army but that didn't go well and an arms dealer managed to buy roughly 10,000 of them at a much later date.
Then he added the super 12 markings and the Russian symbols and included an extra 7.62x25 barrel for added appeal which worked very
well in the Western market in the early 90's.
 
I sure do love me some tokarev. I like the Zastava 9mm.

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I also had an idea with this gun. The slide fits on my Russian tok stripped frame. I figure if I piece together the frame I could have a Russian 9mm tok.

Why do I think this is needed? Well extra Zastava 9mm mags basically don't exist. The 9 round tokarev mags are expensive when you can find them. But 9mm fits in a 7.62x25 mag. 7.62 mags are easy to find and cheap , they also fit into a Russian frame. Has any one tried this combination yet?
 
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