porting a Tokarev slide ?

This porting is only in the slide so it would not help with recoil management. I'm sure this could be done if you want the look and the pistol would still function.
 
The weight of the slide is a specific weight. Messing with that weight could have a effect on your reliability. It might not have a effect at all or it could turn the pistol into a jam-o-matic. You might end up spending hours trying to fix it, by playing with heavier springs etc.
 
Another good reason for not doing this to a real Tok is the barrel lug recesses on the inside of the gun. Where he cuts the so called porting slots would be right in the area where the rings on the barrel lock into the matching grooves in the slide. So that would be weakening the portion of the slide that locks the barrel to the slide during the initial portion of the recoil kick. The airsoft doesn't have that problem because it's operating sort of as a basic blowback style gun. So there are no barrel lugs and no lug grooves in the aluminium alloy slide of the airsoft version. It may not be a problem on the real gun. But do YOU want to be the Bubba's second couz that finds out that it produces a "tear along the dotted line" stress point in the slide?
 
There are a bazzilion Toks in circulation, so who cares if one gets "modified" or "improved"?

I recall thinking that when I took my mint condition Long Branch #4 ($10.95 at Eatons) and made it into a sporter.
 
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