the soviet tokera versus the american 1911 this time on gun physics
the tocarev is the 1911. tokurev put together early 1930s it's the tt-33 right firing the
7.62 millimeter round it's a bottleneck actually hold on it's uh it's pretty cool
this uh bottleneck round looks like that and fires at pretty high velocities and it's uh
very different from the 45 acp used in the 1911 but this thing i mean check it out it's pretty
skinny it's actually significantly thinner than the 1911 so it's better in that respect
uh the grips are hugely fat on the tocarev so the thickness is pretty equivalent we need some
somebody to make some thinner grips for these things and make it a better carry gun the length
of the barrel is a little bit shorter something like four and a half on the tokarev and five for
the 1911 this one is my 10 millimeter 1911 and you can see that the sizes are pretty close to each
other and the grip length that that dimension is uh pretty similar except for the extended magazine
which actually this magazine does not well it does now didn't lock the slide back a couple
minutes ago but here it is this is uh this is the 1911 made in the soviet union actually this
one in yugoslavia but uh made for the soviet union and its satellite countries without all the silly
safeties that america came up with so you got the grip safety which if you have a grip safety
and you have a manual safety i don't really understand the point anyway grip safety and
manual safety just pick one or the other or just like a glock have one of these things i don't know
whatever somebody else designed it i didn't and they're a lot smarter than i am here we go you get
the grip safety secondary safety bam well this one does not have the grip safety none of that
there's no manual safety anywhere in this thing in the original it's just nowhere to be seen because
well it doesn't exist and i guess you could kind of carry it with a round in the chamber like
you're supposed to in modern times but pull it out if there's nothing in the chamber but you do have
a full magazine it's a single stack just like the standard 1911 so you have a single stack magazine
and they're they're pretty close in size the tokurab is a little bit longer in four
aft dimensions as you can kinda tell a little bit longer by about two or three millimeters
but you just pull this thing out nothing in the chamber pull back it's weird at half [ __ ] you
can't operate the slot and i didn't realize that check the end of the video okay hammer down no
round in the chamber pull it out chamber around you're ready to go that's all you need this one
you could do the same thing except you could also carry it cocked and locked
with the round in the chamber ready to go or you could carry it with nothing in the chamber
pull it out do the exact same thing and fire it which depending on the time in the country
that's the kind of thing you did this thing theoretically could be carried like that with
a round in the chamber half [ __ ] and then ready to go boom right there this one does not have any
of the silly safeties a 1911 has but it's pretty much a straight up copy same operating system
same recoil the dropping barrel this thing also has the dropping barrel drops out of the
way barrel drops out of the way single action trigger system and that single action trigger
actually is a bow trigger just like the 1911 so this is the original one that came with this one
no external safeties because they took care of the import requirements by putting this little
blade safety in there just like the glock and other ones pull this out of the way and
then the trigger pulls but it is a bow just like the 1911. the trigger can be pretty good
and on this one it is actually pretty good but it's a single action trigger single action only
single action only lots of safeties well not a whole lot of safeties
except for the half [ __ ] feature slide lock it's in about the same position both of them
require that you push the pin out from the right hand side to disassemble the magazine release
is in about the same position it's pretty close to the same size it's actually bigger
on the tokarev and these things are really really really similar this one actually has a dovetailed
front sight and a dovetail rear sight as does this one not the original but this one does
and for about 200 dollars and nine rounds of some pretty high velocity pretty well
penetrating rounds i like this thing a lot now if i get some thinner grips and uh that thing that
that thing would work really well just found out something interesting but if you're at half [ __ ]
you can't actually you can't do anything with the slide it seems to be locked so
there are no external safeties in this thing and i think that the idea is that hammer fully down
chamber around and go but decock it can't use the trigger you can't pull it back oh i remember now
they're so you say you're not spitting ammunition on the ground then you can pull the hammer back
and go i don't know i kind of like that tokarev without all the safeties but the 1911 is american
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