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To: Texas Fossil

Hickok45: Tokarev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQtbNzyO0cE


20 posted on 04/12/2015 8:19:27 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: JoeProBono
He said: "...maybe a rip-off of John Browning's 1903 or the 1911"...

Gee, ya think?

Most of the Tokarevs are crude, as in the one you pictured above, but some of the later editions are better constructed, with external safeties, better magazine release and retainer and improved sights.

I was kinda surprised to learn that it is still being made by some of the Baltic states.

You'd think they would have had a chance to get hold of a Colt 1911 or something more recent to rip off from.

Someone once told me that the Russian and/or Baltic manufactured firearms had the most proof-stampings of any other weapons.

A close look at one confirms that, as most of them look as though it's corroded, until you see that it is the myriad of stampings on it.

I guess every Ivan, Misha and Boris in the factory had to get his two-cents in on them.

30 posted on 04/12/2015 8:46:10 AM PDT by OldSmaj (obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
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