Tt-33

Dark Alley Dan said:
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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!
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Also, I fail to see how this is SFRC's fault, comrade.
 
I bought a polish tt 33
All my friends also bought ones
We have sent 1000 rounds plus down range
And notice the Jams but I find it the variation in the 60-70 year old ammo
I find there is different lots in the same box
Watch your lot numbers
 
I own several TT-33's. Most of them required some work on them before they operated correctly. I polished the feed ramps, blasted out the cosmoline from the ejector with brake cleaner and compressed air and replaced the magazine and return spring. (http://www.gunsprings.com/index.cfm?page=items&cID=1&mID=68). With a little TLC, the TT-33 is a tough, reliable pistol. Next thing I'm working on is a jig/fixture to hold the slide while I try to move the rear sight for windage adjustment.
 
This will sound odd but see what happens when you lube a couple rounds with a very lite lube (clp).
I do this for my comp 22 pistol that is picky.

If it works at this point you need to polish the chamber for sure.
 
1- Did you contact SFRC and they specifically told you that they will not help you at all?

2- Does it fail to eject with one magazine or both? Did you try the second mag or a different magazine? Try loading a mag, chambering a round, then drop the magazine and fire the single round. Does it still fail to eject?

3- Check the slide, look inside and check the spot that would contact the hammer and recock it when the action moves to the rear. Is there a rough worn spot or even a metal burr on the edge?

It can be a few things. It can be that the ammunition you are using is underpowered (unlikely), your chamber could need a good solvent soak and scrubbing (possible), Your extractor could be defective (possible), your ejector could be rounded and worn or even bent to the left or right slightly (likely), it could also be that the slide is binding somewhere along the tracks of the receiver and the trigger/hammer group insert (also likely). You will have to check and verify all of these things. Check the rails inside the slide for damage or hard wear contact points.

If you're on your own after contacting SFRC, I would strip that thing down to pins and parts and clean it mint. Then oil, reassemble, grease the contact points in the rails with a bit of grease not just oil. If it continues then Tradex has parts, EE has WTB possibly for spare parts, there more of these things floating around than any other handgun lol I'm sure someone has a couple of them broken down for parts guns. Potentially replace the extractor and extractor spring. Worst case scenario all the above fails, you may need a new trigger group housing or complete trigger/hammer assembly and recoil spring as well.

Like others have said I'm almost 2000+ rounds through my Soviet TT33 and can count on one hand the stoppages I've had, I'd even say most were from my grips loosening up while shooting and "limp wristing" the gun causing a short stroke lol They are the epitome of reliability.

Get to work Sir!
 
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Is this gun cheap enough to be willing to try a few things first?

I like the polishing the chamber idea, as well as racking the slide through a mag-full of ammo idea. WTF? Couldn't hurt...

Dollars to donuts this is an easy fix.
 
i had the same problems you guys are talking about, it would shoot and stovepipe, it was a simple fix, i was holding the gun too relaxed(limp wristing) now i flex my wrist a little when i shoot and no jam at all
 
A lot could be the grip, when I bring new people to the range they tend to jam the Tok because they don't hold it right. Make sure when you clean your Tokarev, you get all the crud out from the ejector area. I use a fine pick to clean mine out after shooting corrosive and am amazed no what gunk comes out of there after I thought I cleaned that area well.

don't give up on the Tokarev, I had feeding issues for the longest time and hated the pistol. Once I got mine worknig right (the slide stop retaining clip was bent/worn out) it works great and I love shooting the pistol!
 
My Polish TT33 jammed up on one of the rounds. The slide wouldn't close all the way forward so there must have been a bur in the chamber perhaps.
 
Well I took the my new ‘old’ Polish TT-33 out over the weekend, wow it was loud, Accurate, grouped to the left and had hell of a snap. However.

I took it to the range and fired off 200 or so rounds…. In each and every magazine the last 4 rounds jammed while feeding into the ramp… a good bump with my left pushed the slide forward and fully engaged the next round up the ramp and it was good for a shot, but of course it would hang up again. Having to do this on every mag
Also I noted that the slide stop does not engage the slide "to lock the slide open" unless the magazine is inserted, not sure if this is indicative to the tt-33.

Now I was shooting my P228 and was unintentionally putting 10 rounds into the TT-33 mag. It fit without issue, but apparently its only suppose to be 8 or maybe it's 9, Im thinking that it could be the mag spring
Any other ideas would be appreciated.

Cleaned it and frog lubed like my Glock (maybe old timers don't like frog lube)
 
endophobic said:
Also I noted that the slide stop does not engage the slide "to lock the slide open" unless the magazine is inserted, not sure if this is indicative to the tt-33.
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Are you talking about firing a round with the magazine out? If so, it would be perfectly normal for the slide not to lock open.

Or, are you saying that the slide will not lock open when you manually engage the slide stop (with magazine removed)?
 
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