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Originally Posted by jplinville
Mom found a few more of dad's guns during my visit this weekend, 3 brand new S&W J-frames in .38, and a Norinco 213 9mm. I knew he had the J-frames, but assumed he sold them prior to passing away...the Norinco was a surprise.
It's a Chinese copy of a Tokarov, but in 9mm. They were banned for import during the Clinton era, and this didn't have import markings.
The safety is assbackwards from other handguns I own...instead of turning off the safety when the switch is pushed forward, you have to pull it back to go safety on. It's an awkward handgun, for sure.
Apparently this has never been shot, at least by my dad...the internals still have a coating of cosmoline on them. It looks like it was just wiped off, covered in a rag, and put up. All of the blue is still there, and has no scratches, other than where the safety interlock is.
Has anyone here had any experience with these? I've read that they are somewhat accurate. I also read, depending on the site, that it either will go 2,000 or 20,000 rounds before needing parts replaced. I read that the 2,000 round quote is a misinterpretation or translation of the original manual that came with them.
Either way, it's getting a good cleaning then taken to the range for a warm-up.
She's keeping the J-frames...  |
I have one.
As others have said the original had no Safety; it used a 1/2 cock notch.
They added the Safety so it could be imported. If the Safety is applied on Mine it take some force to move it.
I have not fired mine extensively because if I remember it needs Full Metal Jacketed Bullets to fire reliably. So that made it more expensive to shoot or re-load for.
While all Steel the gun is rather light weight and the force to Pull the Trigger is harder than say a GI 45. That makes it harder to shoot accurately.
I mentioned the weight already and it is a very thin compact Gun that would make it easier to conceal if you had to carry one.
It would be OK as a self defense Gun for in the House but functionally a GI typ 45 is a better weapon.
The Chinese copy of the Tokarov is likely good enough for executing some poor Villager with a shot to the back of the Head or some close range assanations.
On mine the Gun appeared to be made on worn out Machinery as the Machining of the Slide Rails and the Slide are slanted. In order to compensate for the slant the Sight needed to be drifted to one side to the extent that one end of the Sight was out of the Dove Tail. In My case I ground off the part that protruded.
Otherwise mine seems to be decently made and fitted.
When I was at the Range another Shooter was having trouble with His. We took it apart and found that the Locking Ribs/Lugs on top of the Barrel were badly peened over. Indicating that the Barrel was not being shoved high enough up into the Slide to lock properly and the Metal appeard to be too soft.
I fogot something on mine there was a lot of sharp machined edges and I took a Jewlers File and fine wet/dry Sand Paper to the sharp edges and used some cold Blueing on it.