Viet Nam Era Factory 66 Chinese Tokarev - Pics Up!
- Thread starter veeshooter
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Prairie Hunter
Regular
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- Saskatoon, SK
It should be either manufactured in 1999 or 2000.
fingers284
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Alberta Cowboy Ranges
Besides the "after the war" year of manuf. being validated by others, it is plain that this pistol has never been in a Vietnamese jungle A.O., witness the absence of pitting & finish degradation, something a "war bring back" from that action would surely display.
All genuine type 54 tokarevs that are made by China for either export or internal use have serial number starting in millions. How it started is a bit in history. In 1954 Chruschev gave Mao as a gift from Soviet people to friendly Chinese prolitariate production rights of Tula factory tokarev pistols. And Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) adopted TT33 same year as a type 54. Like all communist countries that were influenced by russian weapons design were given the latest specks and machinery at the time. Thus if you compare the post war soviet tokarev with fine slide serrations vers type 54 you see that they are almost the same. Production started in factory 66, and serial numbers were started by one millionth digit in part to confuse the west in the amount of pistols that are made and in part to be accurate about it. Any way 1954 is the year of adoption is the first million of serial numbering system. Each year since then add one million to serial numbers of true genuine type 54 pistols. Wether it has a safety or not it makes no difference, even some 9 mm toks that made by China have the same numbering. As long as its type 54 it will have serial in millions and the number of millions is the year of manufacture. So 28 millions were made in 1981. If your tok was made during lets say 1967 at the height of Vietnam war it would have had 14 million serial number.
Marstar sells right now Type 54s that have 59 million serial numbers and they are recently imported ones from China.
Here are some photos of my toks enjoy
Awesome information! Many thanks for your time and for clearing things up. LOL I'm going to buy a case of ammo and shoot the hell out of it now that it's confirmed to not be what I thought. Cheers!
gewehr76
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Enjoy, they are fine pistols for what they are. Plus if you see the barrel, is chromme lined and its impervious to corrosive ammo.
- Location
- East of Home, West of the Rest
Anyone confirm what markings are on the current chinese offerings? I'd rather not get one with "made in China norinco" billboarded on the slide. Would prefer just the roll marks like the older versions.
Not sure on that one brother.
gewehr76
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
They have serial on top of the slide with chinese eurogliphs meaning 54. On left of the slide it says 30 cal.
I has no safety nor any norinco markings.
I has no safety nor any norinco markings.
- Location
- East of Home, West of the Rest
Some not pleasing to the eye markings on the Marstar pistols....
That is what I want to avoid.
midnightpossum
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- East Kootneys
I would have to agree.. not pleasing.
