Tokarev 7.62x25tt

I have a Lee .311 93gr mold I use for chicken loads in .30 caliber rifles would be perfect for the 7.62x25 ..............Harold
 
mbogo3 said:
I have a Lee .311 93gr mold I use for chicken loads in .30 caliber rifles would be perfect for the 7.62x25 ..............Harold
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*May* be a little large. The user would be best to slug their barrel
to be 100% certain. The Czech surplus I have is .308 as is the Hornady
86 grain SPRN bullets I use. 1 or 2 thou over might be ok but
I'd be leery about 3 thou.

Also, a spire/spitzer point bullet shape *may* have feeding issues.
Never tried it- just speculating.


-zip
 
I have used the Lee bullet in LEE-Enfields, Moisin-Nagants and Tokarev pistol. No problems.

Lube them with the Lee Liquid Alox and if you are real worried about that extra thousandth, run them through a Lee sizing tool ($15 from Lee Factory Sales and the bottle of lube comes with it).

Nice thing is that al Lee pistol moulds are double-cavity.

Use old wheelweights for making your bullets.

Stick with the loads that Zippy the Wonder Chimp has given you. If you load too low for any semi-auto handgun, you're in Jam City with no toast or coffee. The recoil (kick) is what makes the thing work, so no kick = no operation.

Have fun!
 
Thank you everyone for your response I just bought 200 starline 7.62x25mm brass
lee 7.62x25mm die set and 200 mauser .30cal 86gr sprn(this is what the guy at tradeex canada recommended when i placed the order)

now when the stuff comes i can reload and finally get a chance to fire my pistol i have had for 2 months.
 
Pte.ONeillPT said:
Thank you everyone for your response I just bought 200 starline 7.62x25mm brass
lee 7.62x25mm die set and 200 mauser .30cal 86gr sprn(this is what the guy at tradeex canada recommended when i placed the order)

now when the stuff comes i can reload and finally get a chance to fire my pistol i have had for 2 months.
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Congratulations! I love my TT-33- it's a blast to shoot.
I was lucky though- I found and bought 12 boxes of 40 round
Czech surplus ammo BEFORE I bought my pistol. :D


-zip
 
I don't know why this cartridge doesn't have more respect. It has better range than the common 9mm and is a very respectable performer.

The only downside is that it is to pistols what the .223 is to rifles...
 
UCSPanther said:
I don't know why this cartridge doesn't have more respect. It has better range than the common 9mm and is a very respectable performer.

The only downside is that it is to pistols what the .223 is to rifles...
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The Russians respected this cartridge so much they used it in their PPSh-41 submachine gun. With a 70 round drum magazine no less!

And the Germans tried to convert the PPSh-41 to fire 9mm (though I suspect this was a logistics descision).
 
I bought my Tokarev clone when I realised that my eyes were starting to go (occupational hazard of journalists, that and booze).

I felt that the rather impressive flat-shooting capability of the 7.62 cartridge should help to make up for what I was having trouble seeing properly. It worked fine, although the eye problems were only cured with a $500 set of graduated quadrifocals.

But that wasn't all bad, either, because it left me with a heck of a nice pistol that shot VERY well indeed. And THAT was one of its problems.

My younger brother was shooting in the matches at Shilo and needed a WW2 type pistol for the CFB Shilo Battle of the Bulge shoot. This is a MISERABLE anniversary shoot and the weather but rarely co-operates, but the Match Goeth On Anyway.

So come the day of the Big Match and it's 30 below (-35 for you metric guys) and even Garands are freezing up. An Olympic shooter actually got his Garand frozen to the point that he would pull the trigger on Round Number One and the rifle would fire..... and eject Rounds 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 straight up, along with the clip! On my brother's team, the M-1 Carbine froze up... and a Thompson is not the ideal gun past 100 or so yards..... and the heavy rifles were not allowed to shoot anything under 225.

So Little Brother #### whips out George's Tokarev and proceeds to take out most of the 125-yard Carbine targets and ALL the 175-yard ones.

The following 4 years witnessed an impressive and heart-rending amount of pleading, begging, wheedling and outright self-abasement as I made attempt after attempt to regain possession of MY Tokarev. Little Brother simply would NOT return it until he found another (an original Russian, as luck would have it) which shot as well!

There is NOTHING wrong with the Tokarev pistol!
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When I bought my Tokarev I also bought a case of ammo.

When I bought my Mosin, I bought a case of ammo.

When I bought my SKS, I bought a case of ammo.

When cases come back on the market, I buy a case of ammo.


Doesn't everyone do this? :D
 
I really want to pick up a pair of these pistols and a couple of crates of ammo. Guess I'll have to keep my eye on Marstar cause it looks like there's going to be a mad dash for it.
 
My Tok. is a Russian one. made in 1947 and almost all the serial numbers match
except for one magazine. The barrels in excellent condition.

I cant wait to shoot it :) when my reloading stuff comes in.
 
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