Toz 8- Single Shot Rifles; Thoughts and Impressions...

I put some foam in a plastic ammo holder so it pushes the bullets out. To make it easier to grab and made a stand, so ergonomically its better.

I can shoot pretty fast.
 
Meroh said:
Ordered one from Intersurplus and I will let you know how I make out with it.
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It arrived, I will get some photos up a bit later. Barrel is heavy but not as heavy or long as the Brno 4 I had. Trigger is extra ####ty, as expected. 2 stage. Wood is banged up, but nothing a good cleaning wont fix. I see potential!
 
OkayShooter said:
I got a 8M ( slightly different stock, and no safety ) and I like it. I like them slightly better than a Cooey. Due to the feed ramp, dovetail rail and cooking on close.

Cocking close can be a little stiff.

Trigger I polished the surface the trigger rides on, greased it, and shimmed it with a spacer for a slightly lighter trigger.

Intesurplus has them for 200$ both the 8-01 and 8M. 8M just got a basic trigger like a Cooey and no safety.

As for accuracy. Quater groups at 25 benched.
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With 5 minutes of filing any cooey will become #### on close.


I had 2. Fun with a VOMZ russian 4X scope reticle.

This thread of course will make me miss them.
 

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Had a bid on this one... pushed him to more than I thought it was worth... since it's missing it's adjustable butt plate.

Still would have been nice to restore.

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I like to call it a kochetov rifle, after it's designer. They are excellent rifles for iron sight marksmanship training, instead of using expensive centre fire ammo. It is by far the rifle I shoot the most.

Couple points:
Good sights, not the typical junk on affordable 22 rifles. On at 100 yds when at the 125m setting (for me).
Excellent 2 stage trigger, which I prefer.
Front sight was loose, had to shim it.
Stock is pretty beat up. Can't decide if I want to refinish it because it also has a wonderful campfire smell to it lol.
 

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Meroh said:
Ordered one from Intersurplus and I will let you know how I make out with it.
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It arrived yesterday and after a quick clean and lube I headed for the range.

Lots of opportunity for tuning... I initially found the trigger to have a long, gritty take up. Target 1 was me struggling with the trigger; once I got the "two stage" thing figured out (too many good triggers on my CZs) it was shooting much better.

The gritty take up can be polished out, there is room to add an adjusting screw to reduce the long take up some, and also to reduce over-travel. The #### on close also took a bit of getting used to, as did the internal loading nest in the bottom of the receiver (which works very well).

The target was shot at 20 yards last night in our indoor range from sand-bags; targets were shot in the same order as the numbering; all were 10 shot groups except number 5 which was 15 shots.

I find that keeping the sights in focus with the target very difficult with my post cataract prescription glasses, but I think the addition of peep sights should fix some of these issues. A stock refinish should "pretty" it up a bit. For a rifle that landed on my doorstep for < $250.00, I am very happy.

Here are a couple photos...

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Target 2 was the best of the night because I was fully utilizing the 2 stage trigger:
 
OkayShooter said:
Nice got the reciever end cap. I find its nice to put my thumb against it to pull back the bolt..
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It was the only rifle they had with the end cap; that was how I decided on which one I would buy; I figured it was used less maybe, than some of the others. LOL.

My bolt slides back easily, ejects like no tomorrow, but the cocking on load... I think you could leave the powder out of the cartridge and the spring would send the bullet down range LOL; my CZs have spoiled me.
 
Years ago I had a TOZ rifle. As I recall it had the end cap, receiver sights, and had a barrel that made me think of a truck axle. It didn't have provisions for mounting a scope or other aperture sights. Perhaps it was a TOZ model 12.
 
grauhanen said:
Years ago I had a TOZ rifle. As I recall it had the end cap, receiver sights, and had a barrel that made me think of a truck axle. It didn't have provisions for mounting a scope or other aperture sights. Perhaps it was a TOZ model 12.
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A good friend has a TOZ 17 he bought with no front sight. He gave me a spare globe sight he had in exchange for my ring and post. Swapped right out to his rifle. I had to use a pencil grinder and file to put a dove tail on the top of my ramp, it was not a difficult install; now I need a diopter that will fit the rear dovetail.

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Meroh said:
A good friend has a TOZ 17 he bought with no front sight. He gave me a spare globe sight he had in exchange for my ring and post. Swapped right out to his rifle. I had to use a pencil grinder and file to put a dove tail on the top of my ramp, it was not a difficult install; now I need a diopter that will fit the rear dovetail.

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I may part with the Diana one I modified for my TOZ. Im looking at buying another Toz and using this one as spare parts.

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You guys are making me want one of these lol.
I already have a good pile of single shot 22lr's but they are all peep/diopter sighted or no sights and optics only.
I'll probably like it for a bit, then complain about the notch/post iron setup and sell it lol.
Same reason I dumped all milsurp 98's, simply because of the crap irons. Still have the P14's and M1917's and everything else US milsurp because they got great irons lol.
I have 2 TOZ, one I think is a 78-something? From that short lived Russian gun shop in Montreal Armsrus, it was $100 when they were folding shop, super accurate and light. Other is a 78-something as well, has the euro style (Bavarian) stock, no irons, heavier type barrel, never seen another one like it, tradex import grabbed cheap.
2 stage adjustable trigger, dual locking lugs, pretty decent stuff.
 
Hitzy said:
You guys are making me want one of these lol.
I already have a good pile of single shot 22lr's but they are all peep/diopter sighted or no sights and optics only.
I'll probably like it for a bit, then complain about the notch/post iron setup and sell it lol.
Same reason I dumped all milsurp 98's, simply because of the crap irons. Still have the P14's and M1917's and everything else US milsurp because they got great irons lol.
I have 2 TOZ, one I think is a 78-something? From that short lived Russian gun shop in Montreal Armsrus, it was $100 when they were folding shop, super accurate and light. Other is a 78-something as well, has the euro style (Bavarian) stock, no irons, heavier type barrel, never seen another one like it, tradex import grabbed cheap.
2 stage adjustable trigger, dual locking lugs, pretty decent stuff.
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I think the 78 was their top end one.
 
Hitzy said:
You guys are making me want one of these lol.
I already have a good pile of single shot 22lr's but they are all peep/diopter sighted or no sights and optics only.
I'll probably like it for a bit, then complain about the notch/post iron setup and sell it lol.
Same reason I dumped all milsurp 98's, simply because of the crap irons. Still have the P14's and M1917's and everything else US milsurp because they got great irons lol.
I have 2 TOZ, one I think is a 78-something? From that short lived Russian gun shop in Montreal Armsrus, it was $100 when they were folding shop, super accurate and light. Other is a 78-something as well, has the euro style (Bavarian) stock, no irons, heavier type barrel, never seen another one like it, tradex import grabbed cheap.
2 stage adjustable trigger, dual locking lugs, pretty decent stuff.
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Good old Toz 78s. I remember buying mine from them. Super accurate.

Next month I'll grab a TOZ. One with a 20 inch barrel would be cool.
 
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