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  • SanDiegoMan
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2013
    • 644

    Tokarev pistol performance?

    How are Tokarev (and variants) in terms of performance? The price of a nearly 200 dollar pistol always appealed to me and I picked one up at turners and it felt really good in my hands. However, I read that Stalin's most infamous executioner, Vasili Blokhin used German pistols to execute thousands of people. This made me question the performance of the handgun. Either way, I suppose a Tokarev is still a neat gun due to historic value...
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    cnj
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2004
    • 1275

    Love mine. Bought it from Turner's several weeks ago. Only been to the range with it once, but it functioned flawlessly and was pretty accurate. Throws the brass a long ways!
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    • #3
      NoHeavyHitter
      Banned
      • Jul 2011
      • 2876

      Uh, they penetrate fairly well.

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      • #4
        DirtyRussianAmmo
        Senior Member
        • Jun 2013
        • 1366

        Yep, love mine. Spits fire and flings brass. Cool cartridge, fascinating history, aesthetically pleasing. For $250-300 dollars they are an incredible value.

        Get one and don't look back.

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        • #5
          2meterB
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2013
          • 1728

          My Romanian tokarev is pretty accurate. Could reasonably reliably break clays sitting on a berm 55 yards out.

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          • #6
            81turbota
            CGN/CGSSA Contributor
            • Oct 2014
            • 2956

            Mine is very fun, a snappy little thing. It will spit fire, throw lead and chuck brass a mile away.
            C&R nut.

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            • #7
              bonusweb
              Banned
              • Aug 2007
              • 1189

              http://youtu.be/rZX2xLQWMAU
              Last edited by bonusweb; 01-03-2015, 8:52 AM.

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              • #8
                Gem1950
                Veteran Member
                • Jun 2008
                • 2876

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                • #9
                  spb_la
                  Senior Member
                  • Jan 2013
                  • 1419

                  Originally posted by SanDiegoMan
                  How are Tokarev (and variants) in terms of performance? The price of a nearly 200 dollar pistol always appealed to me and I picked one up at turners and it felt really good in my hands. However, I read that Stalin's most infamous executioner, Vasili Blokhin used German pistols to execute thousands of people. This made me question the performance of the handgun. Either way, I suppose a Tokarev is still a neat gun due to historic value...
                  Unless you plan on preforming mass executions, TT should do just fine...
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                  • #10
                    SanDiegoMan
                    Senior Member
                    • Jan 2013
                    • 644

                    Originally posted by spb_la
                    Unless you plan on preforming mass executions, TT should do just fine...
                    I was using it as an indicator of heavy usage. I figured maybe there was a reliability issue or that the round was not very effective.

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                    • #11
                      spb_la
                      Senior Member
                      • Jan 2013
                      • 1419

                      Originally posted by SanDiegoMan
                      I was using it as an indicator of heavy usage. I figured maybe there was a reliability issue or that the round was not very effective.
                      I know, I apologize for crude comment.
                      Personally, I have never put more than 50 rounds through my TT at one time, but don't see reliability issue as a factor.
                      As for round - it is a very hot high penetration round.
                      "There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket."

                      Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.

                      PM me your requests for Russian AK optics - Obzor, Kashtan, Rakurs, POSP, etc.

                      Buy your BNIB Russian AK Optics here!

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                      • #12
                        DirtyRussianAmmo
                        Senior Member
                        • Jun 2013
                        • 1366

                        OP, if you're still on the cusp about the TOK, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQtbNzyO0cE

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                        • #13
                          Lucky Scott
                          Veteran Member
                          • Dec 2008
                          • 2610

                          Love mine..........

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                          • #14
                            bonusweb
                            Banned
                            • Aug 2007
                            • 1189

                            I can't remember mine jamming.
                            Guns seem very reliable and simple durable design. Like the way magazines feed, does not rely on magazine lips, but rather they feed using heavy steel lips as part of the trigger group. Magazines can be bent up some, but would still feed.

                            Note long time extensions to the right of this picture.





                            Seems to me a great idea not sure why it never caught on.


                            Cheap surplus ammo not available anymore. You will pay 10 cents or more per round than 9mm to shoot.
                            Also mags only hold 8 or 9 depending on if yugo or other country.
                            Last edited by bonusweb; 01-04-2015, 11:24 AM.

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                            • #15
                              bonusweb
                              Banned
                              • Aug 2007
                              • 1189

                              Originally posted by DirtyRussianAmmo
                              OP, if you're still on the cusp about the TOK, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQtbNzyO0cE
                              This guys uses a non typical disassemblty. Look on YouTube, you don't need tools, with normal take down, very easy actually.

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