What do you guys know about Chinese 9mm Tokarevs????

I can't comment on the Chinese 9mm Tokarevs, but for Tokarevs in general, they're inexpensive but they work. Fit/finish is rough, trigger is terrible and the sights are garbage.

This is in comparison to modern pistols. For a hundred dollars or so, I probably wouldn't turn one down either. It'll be good for slinging lead down range. Things like the trigger and sights can be improved, but that requires time/money. It will be difficult to shoot well at 25 yards.
 
I had a couple of the M213's that were sold by Canada Ammo. After about 100 rounds the groups tightened up amazingly and the guns were shooting as accurately as anything else I've shot and better than some.

The triggers were heavy in the typical way of military and defensive guns. But I'd gotten the guns to work on my gun smithing skills so the heavy triggers were smoothened out and lightened up to something more like a nice 5 to 6lb pull with less pre and post travel. That helped to some extent with the accuracy as well.

As for feeding I've used a fair amount of different ammo and I don't actually recall either one ever jamming at all. I'm sure they did at some point but if I don't remember it happening it must have been seldom enough that it's pretty much a non-issue.

The reason I never kept one of mine is that I like to use my handguns for various competitions. And with no decent sort of safety the Tokarev style isn't elligable to use for such competitions. The only way to be able to holster a loaded gun safely was to either leave the chamber empty or lower the hammer on the live round. Then on the draw I'd have to thumb #### the hammer or rack the slide to prepare for the first shot. I actually did this for a couple of IDPA practice nights. But I've got other more suitable guns that fit my hands better that I prefer. So the guns were sold off.

For general plinking at targets none of this is an issue. And for that I found the M213's to be good guns capable of darn good accuracy.

The sights are the small military style. So they don't leap into alignment like bigger target sights. But I'd say that calling them garbage is a bit overboard. They work well enough and I found that they were regulated nicely to the ammo so the groups were printing right on my POA.

My only beef is that because they are a somewhat smaller size gun that there's not a lot of room on them for a couple of larger hands. If it comes with the wrap around style grips shown in the picture that'll help a lot. But the grips are still short so the pinky for those of us with larger hands ends up barely hanging onto anything at all.
 
You're not going to get a target pistol for $200. You're going to get a big kid's toy. Mind you, there is no such thing as a 9mm target pistol and $200 isn't horrible for a big kid's toy. I wouldn't worry about the trigger. All commercial fireams require a trigger job. Don't think I'd bother doing one on any Chinese made firearm though.
 
I have on of the 99.00 specials can ammo sold a few years ago. It,s woth what I payed for it but the main complaint is the grip angle very hard to shoot accurate. I would recamend something like a sig clone if he can only afford a norinco.
 
It will go bang. You will be able to get rounds on paper with it. About all I can say. Norinco quality seems to be up a bit. And if it's coming from Marstar as your pic suggests, they will stand behind their product. No BS warranty!
 
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