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This is a Cold War-era (1952-dated) Russian TT-33 Tokarev pistol. It was introduced in 1933 and became the standard sidearm of the Red Army, replacing the obsolete M1895 Nagant revolver. It's a semi-automatic handgun with a magazine capacity of eight 7.62x25mm Tokarev rounds. It became popular for it's reliability and was produced in great numbers- like with many Soviet weapons, it became copied and used by many countries around the world. The only change in the Russian Tokarev since it's original manufacture is the slide grip: other than this, the design remained unaltered.*This weapon is deactivated*
Let me know what you think, comments and criticism are appreciated. Thanks for looking!
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Comments: 48
What a beauty! I loved it in World at War
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I have one of these dated 1940 it's so cool to have a WW2 era firearm still runs like a champ after all these years and makes good pair with my 1943 dated Mosin Nagant also who remembers this gun as the DD 44 from Goldeneye 64
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I love this picture. I so look forward as in the week time I will owe one yay.
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Best pistol ever. Perfect. Rugged, reliable, nice-looking, powerful, awesome.
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Beautiful photo of a beautiful gun!! I've tried many firearms and this is definitely one of the best, together with M1911
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The Tokarev is certainly an interesting handgun. You can look at the slide and tell it's a Soviet knockoff of the 1911, but I think that's kind of its charm. It takes the artistic lines of the 1911 and imposes upon them that very stamped metal, industrial look that Soviet weapons had. They're sort o beautiful in their ugliness. The hard unfinished lines, the bakelite grips, and the general no nonsense, good enough for a conscript and shooting a deserter in the back design philosophy of soviet weapons certainly gives them a look all their own. It really looks like it belongs next to an AK-47 in its design elements, just like the more old world Nagant Revolver pretty much belonged next to the Mosin-Nagant rifle.
And no I am NOT belittling this gun, just doing my best to describe how the design has its own aesthetic appeal. It's a fascinating piece of history if nothing else.
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This is not a handgun. This is a machine ... Killing machine!
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An awesome-looking one at that. This one's desctivated, but I collect for historical and aesthetic interest; I just love the design of this thing.
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Weapons... This is art in some way...
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I admit, Tokarevs are pretty good guns, a lot better than the Makarovs that replaced them, but you really need to watch what ammo you put in them. I mean, there were two Russian loadings for them, the submachine gun loading and the pistol loading. If you use the pistol ammo in the submachine gun, you won't get the performance. If you use the submachine gun ammo in the pistol, it might explode.
But you do have to admit, the TT-33 and CZ-52 are pretty good lookin' guns.
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They are indeed. Again, I hadn't heard of the latter before- I really need to look into the Czech military's weaponry properly. I do love the look of it though.
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Yeah. She is a beauty.
Besides, my family's a bit anal about guns. American or Czech guns only, for the most part. Mainly because most Russian and other Soviet guns aren't that good, and most other countries don't make guns in too many decent calibers. And don't ever mention a 9mm over around a serious gun enthusiast from the US.
We will bash it mercilessly, and champion our .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, .45, .454 Casull, or (most rarely) .357 Maximum.
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I don't know very much about the different calibers, I am aware of the .45 though. Gotta love the Thompson SMG.
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The Thompson is a classic. But if I had to choose a .45 SMG, (even though there are only a few) I'd have to go with the new TDI Vector.
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Just had a look at it- weird thing, not very pretty, but I'm sure it does a good job...
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No, not really. But I'm the kind of guy that finds beauty in function, so it does have it's charm.
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I really like this picture and the slide on this gun is beautiful. Makes me want to grab one of my 1911s and go shooting. Yeah, think I'll go do that.
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Thank you. Makes me wish this thing wasn't deactivated! Still, it's a piece of history.
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i like the longer design of the soviet guns its much sleeker and lighter than anything the yanks have made cause russia hands have less fat on them obviosly but i want to get a gun a tarus revolver 12 inch barrel cause it feels more like a soviet gun than anything else
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Just looked at that Taurus... has to be one of the weirdest guns I've ever seen! Personally I'd just go for a rifle instead if I had the choice. It's so long it might as well just be one.
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Whaha I like the long slide of the gun, it could have a long shooting range I think. . .
ow btw, great gun
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Wow! Beautiful pistol, I am fan of the russian guns design, very functional and clean, not like the ugly Beretta
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some berreta guns are very fancy (and expensive) look around at some of the berreta over and under shotguns
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Personally I don't like Beretta's designs. Neither pistols or shotguns. They look quite "thin" and simple, without the "muscle" of a Desert Eagle or the grace of a Luger or the pop looking of an AK...
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You need to look at the VZ-58. In my opinion, it's far more beautiful than any AK series could ever hope to be.
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They look very similar to the AKs
I like this design, better than the "mosquitto" look of the ARs/M16
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True. But they're completely different. With the VZ, the entire breech opens, rather than just an ejection port, making it that much easier to clear a jam.
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Cool! Didn't knew that
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Hey, I didn't either, until I actually handled the thing. And it's so simple to pull down too. I mean, everything's held in place by just two pins, so you can pull it down in seconds.
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Wow!
Soviet weaponry are so pratical! Better than the US M16's that used to break in Vietnam climate
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Well, M16s were actually quite reliable. They just hadn't figured out what to clean at that time. And if you look at the way that weapons development has gone, you would see that the M16 was more influential in shaping weapons than the AK, due to the wildly successful 5.56 round.
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And, of course, the US lobby
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To a point. But it was mainly the round. I mean, look. Most modern military firearms are the 5.56 round, which is a shame, because the 7.52 is much more effective as a man-stopper.
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I think .50 rounds were better man-stoppers
In fact, its just to easy to kill a human... I saw in TV about a soccer player that died because he felt in the ground and a small sharp stone cutted his leg veins, making him bleed to death!
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Yes, we flesh-bags of soft organs and fragile arteries are extremely easy to kill, if one attacks the right spot, and the person isn't so hyped up on PCP that they can't even tell when one of their legs was just blown off.
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I think people should invent some implants, like the silicon breasts of Pamela Anderson, but smaller, in shape of muscles, and bulletproof. In one surgery you would be looking like Rambo and resistent like Superman
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**sigh**
There was a case of an Israeli woman's life being saved by her silicone implants, but besides freak chance, I doubt that it would be useful.
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I agree with you 100%... this is honestly my favourite handgun design, far nicer than the American pistols. The Tokarev is based upon the workings of the Browning, but aesthetically I say it beats it.
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