Tt-33 won’t eject shells have to force the slide back what did I do??

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have to use excessive force to get the spent casing out I have taken it apart numerous times cleaned and reassembled to no avail what am I missing or what did I screw up. I have to hammer the slide back. It seam to function fine till I take a shot then casing is stuck again. Any ideas
 
Case binding in the chamber? Has it gotten very dirty/rusted? What do fired cases look like? Have you tried different ammo or shot the same stuff previously with no issue?
 
Show us which ammo you are using - lacquer, brass wash, copper wash, brass? Did you clean the chamber _thoroughly_? Did you try other ammunition (not surplus)? Show us the brass - looking for marks on the brass.

Yes, as pointed out above your brass is binding in the chamber, the question is why and where.
 
The last time (the only time) I had this problem, the chamber and barrel were so shot out that the fired casing was belled at the mouth.
A new barrel fixed it.
 
Sounds like WW2 production gun? 1943-44? Refurbished? these were made by malnourished children. If you shoot the Czech steel cased BXN 53 ammo out of the WW2 made gun expect damage to occur very quickly. chewed up lugs on the slide, sheared fp retaining pin. or snapped barrel bushing are usual failures with this ammo. Its very hot for ww2 guns.
 
Sounds s if you have an extraction problem, not an ejection one. Inspect the chamber for rust pitting, etc. Are the fired cases marked up from chamber roughness? If the chamber is rough, try polishing it, but a replacement barrel might be the easiest solution.
 
Mine will do that after 50 rounds of the lacquered surplus’s rounds. A little scrubbing and good to go for another 50 rounds. 1941 non refurbished well used pistol.
 
I will try and add some pics. Been using same ammo gun was working fine then after a cleaning this happened. I was pretty heavy on the lube. Like real heave.
 

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Yeah that Czech stuff is hot, and any lube in the chamber will help to spike pressure. Are the rims undamaged? That may have an effect on your pistol. As said above clean the chamber and boltface and try again.
 
Do try other ammo. I see the brass is stretched quite a bit, which isn't necessarily a problem but your chamber appears quite spacious based on how much the brass has stretched so this may cause the binding.

You probably don't want to be using the Czech surplus in a TT - those guns are not built to be fired lots (there are reports from rental ranges that these die pretty quickly). And since you won't be able to replace that frame if it cracks you may want to be gentle... So get some modern commercial ammo.
 
tiriaq said:
What happened to the poor thing? Bubba buffed it, chrome plated it? Ii see something like that and wonder what else was done to it.
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Well…. I had the bright idea to chuck it in my ultrasonic cleaner with a bit of a carb cleaning solution that was in there figured it would clean it up good, oh did it ever…. when she came out she was bare metal so a couple hours later I was black and the gun was shiny! Believe it or not it never rusts or discolours. I figured I right f$&@/; it but no it’s fine that way and it went through about 500 rounds b4 I started having this issue.
 
Black as in you leaned into the buffing wheel? If you ever strip the blue off again by mistake, get your local smith to throw it in the tank as-is and would have come out looking like a normal Russian refurb.
 
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