I have a Tokarev - 33 bought from SFRC. It jams after fired, failing to eject the spent casing. It took me a while to get my shooting club membership after buying so I can't send this thing back. Does anyone have knowledge of how to correct this? I suspect the ejector spring is weak. I'm so bummed out I will never buy from SFRC again.
Tt-33
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BC Farmboy
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I also bought a tt33 from them and having the same issue. when i first bought it, it worked great, i put around 100 rounds through it then the next time i went to the range it wasn't ejecting right. the cases were getting stuck half out and sometimes not even coming out of the chamber. I am shooting Czech surplus through it. Any help would be appretiated as well
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Is not problem of hero pistol of Soviet Union. Problem comes from decadent operator. Pistol tries to serve, but lazy capitalist fails to keep mighty TT-33 clean! Pfui!
Be scrubbing chamber of mighty hero pistol with many generous application of Hoppe's Number Nyet. Comrade pistol was for fighting Hitlerites in Great Patriotic War! Comrades of Soviet Republics are winning that. Gun range in Canada is like Walt Disney Land for comparing. Maintain Comrade Tokarev, and he will strive to serve in struggle against Fascist stovepipe jams and partial ejections!
Hurrah!
BC Farmboy
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I cleaned the #### out of mine when i got mine as well. and thoroughly clean it after every use so that is not the issue with mine.
Id say dirty or ejector is stuck... I got mine from sfrc in November and put 1000rds through mine of dirty czech suplus through it.... Clean it each time.... Think Ive had 2 failure to feeds and 1 failure to eject and about 10 times the slide gets stuck back..... Might be you just got a bum gun
Edit.... Ment extractor
Edit.... Ment extractor
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Do you mean extractor spring is weak?
I understand the ejector to be at the back left of the mag, on the frame. Just a triangular stub.
Extractor yanks (ok - holds it during blowback) spent cartridge to rear where left side of it hits ejector and the extractor biases the right side, flinging it "away".
Load a mag and hand cycle through them. Use snap caps, or be safe about it, but that should expose where the issue is. Fast or slow, you can't do it with as much force as firing.
If they eject fine by hand, maybe they're fire forming on a chamber burr, or your slide is sticking on recoil, bleeding off blowback energy.
Edit: Have a look at end of this video, ejection happens last on recoil
I understand the ejector to be at the back left of the mag, on the frame. Just a triangular stub.
Extractor yanks (ok - holds it during blowback) spent cartridge to rear where left side of it hits ejector and the extractor biases the right side, flinging it "away".
Load a mag and hand cycle through them. Use snap caps, or be safe about it, but that should expose where the issue is. Fast or slow, you can't do it with as much force as firing.
If they eject fine by hand, maybe they're fire forming on a chamber burr, or your slide is sticking on recoil, bleeding off blowback energy.
Edit: Have a look at end of this video, ejection happens last on recoil
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A point to remember is that copper-washed ammo is one thing, brass-cased is another...... and lacquered-steel is MOST definitely another.
The lacquer from the casings can build up inside the chamber and COOK IN. It then GLUES your empties in place. Chemical flushes will not help, much of the time.
Thing needs to be cleaned and the chamber SCRUBBED with extra-Fine steel wool to get that lacquer out.
I got a Hungarian Tokarev that came out of Angola, back in 1980. It has shot a lot of rounds and won a few matches, but it has always been fired with brass-cased or copper-washed ammo: Yugoslavian, Russian, Chinese or handloads.
So far it hasn't jammed, but I suppose anything is possible.
The Tok is as reliable as a ROCK. If it starts jamming, it is likeliest that you are doing something wrong.
Germans used lacquered-steel ammo in the MG-42. (Brass cases were reserved for the Air Force.) Each gun was issued with 4 barrels and barrels were changed-out every 200 rounds and CLEANED. Remember, they LOST.
The lacquer from the casings can build up inside the chamber and COOK IN. It then GLUES your empties in place. Chemical flushes will not help, much of the time.
Thing needs to be cleaned and the chamber SCRUBBED with extra-Fine steel wool to get that lacquer out.
I got a Hungarian Tokarev that came out of Angola, back in 1980. It has shot a lot of rounds and won a few matches, but it has always been fired with brass-cased or copper-washed ammo: Yugoslavian, Russian, Chinese or handloads.
So far it hasn't jammed, but I suppose anything is possible.
The Tok is as reliable as a ROCK. If it starts jamming, it is likeliest that you are doing something wrong.
Germans used lacquered-steel ammo in the MG-42. (Brass cases were reserved for the Air Force.) Each gun was issued with 4 barrels and barrels were changed-out every 200 rounds and CLEANED. Remember, they LOST.
