That's CLEARLY an ordinary gallon bucket from the hardware section of Walmart. These frauds just co-opted it an put their "stamp" on it for all their gullible viewers. And THEN, they have the audacity to call it a "four liter bucket." InRangeTV, shilling the Metric System like always - probably because a Frenchman invented it.
Hubris is defiance of the Gods, and punishable by Nemesis. (The Titaness, of Divine Retribution.) I think if they'd gotten to the Hubris stage, Karl would have found out about it by now. Standing out under the clear blue sky like that.
I only wish they tried different kinds of mud. It'd just be interesting to see how different guns react to black dirt, river silt, clay, etc vs just this sandy red dirt stuff.
The thing is though that it can lead you to a false conclusion if you interpret it to mean "overall reliability". I think the guys themselves have said that sometimes, you'll get gun A that's more reliable in a mud test than gun B, but gun B is more reliable under normal operating conditions, so it really depends on your definition of reliable. Is it under normal conditions, with the ideal ammo? Under extreme condition with sub par ammo? Mud, sand, snow, dirt.... Or do you consider all the different conditions as seperate categories that any gun does better under
I suspect that it would perform almost identically to the 1911. The ejection port shapes are very similar and somewhat conducive to holding onto dirt, plus hammer fired and dirt do not go together.
I’m curious how the barrel hood locking vs the lugs on the barrel affect overall function in adverse conditions. The hood seems like it would be easier to clear debris from, but the lugs seem like it would be much harder to get dirt into.
Wouldn't the designation be T33 though? I'm asking because to my knowledge the way to differentiate between Soviet and American tanks is that Soviet tanks have that little dash between the T and the number (and it can be quite helpful to know whether someone talks about a soviet T-26 or an American T26).
I know how you guys feel toward the mud tests, but I must say I for one appreciate your efforts in doing them. This is good, practical and tangible data you’re producing. A genuine thanks as always, keep on
Just for historical sakes I think a mud test of a 'Ruby' 32 acp that were so prevalent on the western front during WW1 would be worth doing. I wonder if the lack of power generated in the slide impulse by the 32 acp cartridge would be a factor.
I second that, but my guess that it will fare better than the Tokarev. Tim at MAC did a torture test on one some years ago, and it too him quite the effort to make it fail.
Got a TT-33C from Romania. Damn I love this gun. I’m overjoyed at seeing just how reliable it is. Not to mention it’s body armor defeating capabilities.
Romanian TTC (tt33 clone) was my first handgun bought at age 18. Very proud to own it and got very good at fully dissembling it (much easier than a 1911) and was supremely reliable with new production pud loads or surplus hot hot hot ammo. Very underrated handguns, good on you for removing the aftermarket safety its junk, I would feel comfortable carrying this hadngun at half cock.
KaptainKoolz >> A really fun gun ! . I have to agree that the aftermarket safeties are ...crap ..all of them . I hate to admit it but I put some super glue on my safety to keep it OFF ,,, it kept working it self on when shooting . Of course I will remove it for good when time permits . It is a a M-57. Other than that .... a very reliable and FUN pistol .
I spoke to a guy once who used the Tok in VietNam (he was Vietnamese, OK. A bad guy I think, he was trained in NVN). He said they were trained to carry empty, and rack the slide by catching that (very) sturdy rear sight on their belts to load a round. He pantomimed drawing and charging it like that and it looked pretty fast. Also in case you wondered why that rear sight is so beefy. Kids: don't try this at home. Obviously finger off trigger. Unlike thumbing the hammer back, doesn't disrupt your grip either.
The Tokarev has an advantage over other decocker-based weapons in that the hammer has a protrusion at the half cock notch that seals off the firing pin recess from dirt and debris. The CZ 75 BD (decocker) that I have does not do this, and of course debris could easily get in the firing channel of a handgun carried cocked and locked. With a military holster that covers the entire pistol this shouldn't be an issue in most cases, but it's worth noting. Also, the Tokarev rear sight is so high because the barrel isn't parallel to the top of the slide while in battery, it's actually parallel during cycling. In battery, the barrel angles slightly downwards.
I was hoping it woupd do better but wasn't surprised based on your 1911 test a while back. I appreciate that you didn't edit put the first failure with the function test mag.
I bought a new production Zastava M57-A recently. Rather bad trigger out of the box (very gritty and very heavy), but after a few hours of work on it, I got it in a decent state (narrowed trigger and sear leaf springs and polished contact surfaces in the trigger group). Also, I replaced the sear and hammer with TT-33 Soviet surplus (unused) spare parts to get back the safety notch (the A model has slide-mounted manual safety and for some reason, they ground the safety notch off---but I like the feature and wanted it back). The parts were cheap and so was the pistol (for a new gun). I also replaced the rear sight with a better one and improved the grip angle using the RazorArms G02 grip sleeve. The result is a pretty decent pistol I can recommend (if you don't mind putting a bit of work into it).
The 7.62x25 Tokarev round is a powerful one for a pistol. A friend of mine tried using the T-33 as an informal entrant at a USPSA local match, but was denied entry, not because of the caliber size as it was just an informal entry, but because the 7.62x25 round was punching holes through the metal targets; as the 45 ACP, 40 S&W, and 9mm rounds would barely put a dent in the same targets. The USPSA has "power factor" rules to exclude handgun rounds from being too mild, but the T-33 with the Tokarev round may have been a first for being excluded for it being too powerful. xD
take: these are possibly the most underrated pistol in the world. while they're old, and have a lot of features typical of their time, they were in many ways also incredibly advanced (particularly the round they fired), well built, accurate enough and as this test shows, very reliable.
Pretty cool. After 8:20 you can see the slide getting hung up as it travels. Usually you can't see it clearly moving back and forth, but at that magazine discharge it's obviously slow.
You guys are doing an awesome job of improving these videos every time. I can't even see some of the complaints here on the YT comments because unlike you guys I can't read through most of them if not all of them. Best wishes from a pro-gun german Hope you guys are doing well over there with all the political turmoil.
I have a Norinco type 54-1 that I got used, dirty, and lightly rusted. I cleaned her up, and so far 500 rounds with no hiccups. Makes a great stash gun.
I love the old war horse both of mine will hold 3 inch groups at 25 yards with new ammo surplus ammo is another story its all over the place hard to even call it a grouping. I occasionally get a failure to go into battery with surplus ammo with out a ton of mud in the pistol.
My tokarev is one of my favorite surplus guns I own. I love collecting C&R to shoot. I had to replace springs in the magazines to get it working proper.
Just for information - dry firing TT can broke cross pin that holds firing pin. Was reading about few accidents during WWII when that issue caused firing pin to 'fly out' from slide after shot directly into shooter's eye. (I'm not 100% sure that is true, but keep that in mind - broken cross pin and stuck firing pin looks pretty possible issue at least)
A Makarov PM, or any soviet/eastern block 9x18mm Makarov pistol (even a CZ-82), would be a good candidate for a mud test. They replaced the TT-33 in combloc countries.
Heh this video reminds me of a story from My great grandfather who fought in the red army during WW2, he said that he once dropped his pistol into mud during the liberation of Poland and it worked for the first three rounds than it had stopped firing due to failure to battery, he had to smack his gun against a hard surface to get it working, while Germans were shooting at him, remarking "we might not have the best equipment in the world, but everything could be fixed by smacking it with a rock or log or helmet..."
Oh damn look i rewatched it to make sure I wasn’t loosing my mind. Check it out last mag you can watch the slide go into battery really slow on two shots. That’s neat to actually see without slow motion
I repaint water towers for a living. Seeing Karl put that mag in his mouth made me pucker right up. Lead poisoning is no joke. I’m still dealing with the aftermath of ingesting/inhaling lead particles over time. Stay safe homie!
I would be interested in a barrel obstructing test with mud & one with dust,, in a safe setting of course !! As always,, it’s been a pleasure to watch this (again !)
I dunno if this is actually useful information or not, but it seems like every shot that fails to return to firing position or is the last shot in a mag ejects in a different direction than shots that are not followed by a failure. The "bad" shots seem to eject directly back over your head and the "good" shots seem to go much more to your right (but still pretty high). The only thing I can think of is that the slide isn't going back at exactly the same speed consistently.
I had a Norinco clone for many years. It was a nice truck gun. I always found it to be a really good shooter. It was shocking how easy it was to make long shots with it. 7.62x25 is NO joke. I always liked the half cock feature. I was raised on single action revolvers and lowering the hammer on a Tokarev was second nature to me. I could get that Norinco into action pretty fast as well. I bought it with an SKS and 1200 rounds of ammo. Got the whole Communist insurgency package...ammo, stripper clips, web gear, everything brand new and in the Cosmoline. Gotta love the Tulsa gun show back in the day.
Dante M I know right I just watch the video and see how the gun does when it is put in mud and dirt I don’t have a bias towards or against any gun because I know that every gun is not mud proof and know that some guns do better than others
Impressive. Personally I like the Yugo/Serb M57 variant. An extra round per mag and the extra grip length are nice and the add-on safeties are slightly less garbage on most of them, at the very least they tend to be in a 'normal' location. The new production M57A is also pretty nice and has a safety that is much less of an after thought, though still a little rough around the edges, literally. Had to take a jeweler's file to the edges around the slide mounted safety, but once that got smoothed out, it made for a nice Tokarev variant. Still have to laugh though about the original military one I got first. When I got it, it was so packed full of cosmoline, you could drop the slide and watch it close in slow motion, a bit like this one does once it got gritty enough, but even slower.
The beauty of this gun is that under normal battlefield conditions you can beat the shit out of it and the vast majority of the time it'll still function.
6:37 People complaining that your non scientific tests aren't completely consist? Why am I not suprised. Oh well, this was another entertaining video as always guys.
What I've always wanted to do for a TT33 is have it cerakoted two-tone finish, get some nice custom-made grips for it, have the trigger tuned and the sights replaced.. It would make a unique style small-scale 1911 shooting a round that makes noise and a macho muzzle blast :D
I have a Chinese 9mm tok my dad bought in the 90s, for years it wouldn’t cycle more than two rounds. When I began getting more and more interested in guns I took it apart and cleaned what I could but it still jammed every couple of shots so I decided to take the mags apart and clean inside and oil them, now it’ll cycle anything I put through it
TT-30/33 is very sensitive for the mud and it has very powerful cartridge with the lack of stopping power. Because of that, TT got very quickly (for the army standards) was changed for the PM.
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"If it doesn't work just hit it." seems like the proper Soviet doctrine.
Worked in "Armageddon".
Applies to reluctant combloc governments as well.
“If it doesn’t work, there’s two more to replace it”
The real soviet doctrine
I own a Soviet motorcycle, and, that's 100% true. The most important parts of my toolkit are a 6" chunk of 2x4, and, a rubber mallet.
@sosy1178 Ural most likely and you can find them online for ten grand or so
I miss the patented InRange wheelbarrow.
They could've tested a dozen pistols in it at once.
The InRange wheelbarrow of hubris
I feel like they would lose the pistol if they used the wheelbarrow
Exactly! Mudtesting without the wheelbarrow ... you're calling that scientific? For shame! ;)
@@whyjay9959then spend days cleaning all the pistols.
"It's getting stiff, guys"
- Karl, 2019.
Phrasing!
InRange mud tests - now featuring The certified bucket of hubris
That's CLEARLY an ordinary gallon bucket from the hardware section of Walmart. These frauds just co-opted it an put their "stamp" on it for all their gullible viewers. And THEN, they have the audacity to call it a "four liter bucket." InRangeTV, shilling the Metric System like always - probably because a Frenchman invented it.
Hubris is defiance of the Gods, and punishable by Nemesis. (The Titaness, of Divine Retribution.) I think if they'd gotten to the Hubris stage, Karl would have found out about it by now. Standing out under the clear blue sky like that.
@@john-paulsilke893
wow such a joke
much funny
I love these inrange mud tests, they are not particularly biased towards any one firearm and this leads to a very fair test
I only wish they tried different kinds of mud. It'd just be interesting to see how different guns react to black dirt, river silt, clay, etc vs just this sandy red dirt stuff.
The best part is the anger it engenders in those who deserve it.
The thing is though that it can lead you to a false conclusion if you interpret it to mean "overall reliability". I think the guys themselves have said that sometimes, you'll get gun A that's more reliable in a mud test than gun B, but gun B is more reliable under normal operating conditions, so it really depends on your definition of reliable. Is it under normal conditions, with the ideal ammo? Under extreme condition with sub par ammo? Mud, sand, snow, dirt....
Or do you consider all the different conditions as seperate categories that any gun does better under
InrangeTV mud test except Far Cry 2 music plays when the firearm fails to go into battery.
Dew it
Man, I loved that game! It's the first real shooter I played.
Try the cz75, i would like to see how the slide riding the rails iside the frame affects reliability.
I was just going to ask for this!! Yes. Do it Karl/Ian!!
good idea
❤CZ75
I suspect that it would perform almost identically to the 1911. The ejection port shapes are very similar and somewhat conducive to holding onto dirt, plus hammer fired and dirt do not go together.
I’m curious how the barrel hood locking vs the lugs on the barrel affect overall function in adverse conditions. The hood seems like it would be easier to clear debris from, but the lugs seem like it would be much harder to get dirt into.
I would like to point out that the Tokarev did better than the AK.
To be fair, the Tokarev also has fewer potential failure points than an ak.
That is because it is decended from the works of the great saint Browning.
About the same? hit it and it will go into battery.
Not better than the ak 74 tho...
@@jabohonu Not better than the Hi point though.
Never seen a malfunction like the one at 8:26 before. Interesting.
Great work as always guys
Slide obviously caught on some mud briefly, then got overcome by glorious soviet spec recoil spring.
da
never seen a friction delayed blowback operated t-33 before?
Oh, I thought this was going to be a " Mud Test " on a US Army T-33 Flame Thrower Tank.
Wouldn't the designation be T33 though? I'm asking because to my knowledge the way to differentiate between Soviet and American tanks is that Soviet tanks have that little dash between the T and the number (and it can be quite helpful to know whether someone talks about a soviet T-26 or an American T26).
@@merobo5066 Thanks, I was not aware of that distinction. The link I found did show the US Flame tank as T33.
Me, too. Misleading title, 0/5.
I know how you guys feel toward the mud tests, but I must say I for one appreciate your efforts in doing them. This is good, practical and tangible data you’re producing. A genuine thanks as always, keep on
Gotta love when percussive maintenance works on a gun
Mainly on USSR guns
Black electrical tape? That just sounds like a standard fix in Russia.
* blue
Green in Afghanistan.
Duct tape in the USA
it's clearly fake since it's black. blue is the only izolenta.
@@brianisaacs5457 Duct tape (maskers) and a hammer was known as 'Royal marines toolkit' when i served ;-j
That sluggish running of the slide at the 8:30 test
it made me cheer for the Tokarev, it's trying its best ;n;
Just for historical sakes I think a mud test of a 'Ruby' 32 acp that were so prevalent on the western front during WW1 would be worth doing. I wonder if the lack of power generated in the slide impulse by the 32 acp cartridge would be a factor.
It might actually do better being a straight blowback.
wow you used water from the certified gun cleaning bucket to wash your hands?
THESE RESULTS ARE NOW INVALID
THANKS KARL
Hahhahah. I thought people would say the same.
@@fallingumbrellahunter205 why are people so pissy about a mud test anyway
gun meets mud
shoot gun
gun maybe work
mud test end
@@fallingumbrellahunter205 oh aint pissed at you lmao
@@fallingumbrellahunter205 everyone always wants to be right or have something to complain about
Waiting to see a makarov mud test
I second that, but my guess that it will fare better than the Tokarev. Tim at MAC did a torture test on one some years ago, and it too him quite the effort to make it fail.
ПМ (Makarov) is not a gun, it is a bottle opener.
Wrong. It is one of the best 9mm simple blowback pistols.
Though, say, the Galil's having an actual bottle opener does not make it a non-gun.
Considering it's a straight blowback gun and it's even tougher than the Tokarev it's unlikely to fail.
Military arms channel made one
Wow, you can literally see the slide getting stuck when firing, that's nuts.
This was a pretty neat mud test. Definitely a piece I wasn’t expecting to see through the tribulations of ‘Arizona Gunk’.
No wheelbarrow, test invalid.
When I saw that bucket of water, I half expected (and really hoped) that you were gonna toss the whole pistol in the bucket rather than rinsing it.
When are you going to start selling certified InRange buckets?
-Soviet- Russian state security services are monitoring the situation. 🇷🇺
Got a TT-33C from Romania. Damn I love this gun. I’m overjoyed at seeing just how reliable it is. Not to mention it’s body armor defeating capabilities.
Got one a few months back too! Absolute joy to shoot. It doesn't have an aftermarket safety though, which makes me question how it got here
I am using and carrying this gun as my EDC. It's one of the most reliable guns out there. It was a great video. 👍
In Soviet Russia T-33 bashes you a couple of times until you are satisfactorily functioning.
Romanian TTC (tt33 clone) was my first handgun bought at age 18. Very proud to own it and got very good at fully dissembling it (much easier than a 1911) and was supremely reliable with new production pud loads or surplus hot hot hot ammo. Very underrated handguns, good on you for removing the aftermarket safety its junk, I would feel comfortable carrying this hadngun at half cock.
KaptainKoolz >> A really fun gun ! . I have to agree that the aftermarket safeties are ...crap ..all of them . I hate to admit it but I put some super glue on my safety to keep it OFF ,,, it kept working it self on when shooting . Of course I will remove it for good when time permits . It is a a M-57. Other than that .... a very reliable and FUN pistol .
2:40 the soviets didnt carry with a round in the chamber they were trained to rack the slide as they drew their weapon
I spoke to a guy once who used the Tok in VietNam (he was Vietnamese, OK. A bad guy I think, he was trained in NVN). He said they were trained to carry empty, and rack the slide by catching that (very) sturdy rear sight on their belts to load a round. He pantomimed drawing and charging it like that and it looked pretty fast. Also in case you wondered why that rear sight is so beefy.
Kids: don't try this at home.
Obviously finger off trigger. Unlike thumbing the hammer back, doesn't disrupt your grip either.
The Tokarev has an advantage over other decocker-based weapons in that the hammer has a protrusion at the half cock notch that seals off the firing pin recess from dirt and debris. The CZ 75 BD (decocker) that I have does not do this, and of course debris could easily get in the firing channel of a handgun carried cocked and locked.
With a military holster that covers the entire pistol this shouldn't be an issue in most cases, but it's worth noting.
Also, the Tokarev rear sight is so high because the barrel isn't parallel to the top of the slide while in battery, it's actually parallel during cycling. In battery, the barrel angles slightly downwards.
I was hoping it woupd do better but wasn't surprised based on your 1911 test a while back. I appreciate that you didn't edit put the first failure with the function test mag.
Is certified inrangetv water gonna be mass produced anytime soon? I want the cyber brains and markmanship of karl and the agility and style of Ian.
I bought a new production Zastava M57-A recently. Rather bad trigger out of the box (very gritty and very heavy), but after a few hours of work on it, I got it in a decent state (narrowed trigger and sear leaf springs and polished contact surfaces in the trigger group). Also, I replaced the sear and hammer with TT-33 Soviet surplus (unused) spare parts to get back the safety notch (the A model has slide-mounted manual safety and for some reason, they ground the safety notch off---but I like the feature and wanted it back). The parts were cheap and so was the pistol (for a new gun). I also replaced the rear sight with a better one and improved the grip angle using the RazorArms G02 grip sleeve. The result is a pretty decent pistol I can recommend (if you don't mind putting a bit of work into it).
The 7.62x25 Tokarev round is a powerful one for a pistol. A friend of mine tried using the T-33 as an informal entrant at a USPSA local match, but was denied entry, not because of the caliber size as it was just an informal entry, but because the 7.62x25 round was punching holes through the metal targets; as the 45 ACP, 40 S&W, and 9mm rounds would barely put a dent in the same targets.
The USPSA has "power factor" rules to exclude handgun rounds from being too mild, but the T-33 with the Tokarev round may have been a first for being excluded for it being too powerful. xD
take: these are possibly the most underrated pistol in the world. while they're old, and have a lot of features typical of their time, they were in many ways also incredibly advanced (particularly the round they fired), well built, accurate enough and as this test shows, very reliable.
Inb4 all the people start complaining because its chinese and not produced in its original country its less reliable...sigh...
Whoa is it me or does it sound like that bullet whizzed right by the camera @2:37?
Several ricochets could be heard in the background
If it were a *real* Tokarev from (*insert Country*) it would have done better.
Antartica
Québec?
Japan
Zack Ceasar Insert Model Number or insert batch.
Zack Ceasar Insert factory location insert time of day it was made.
Thank you for doing this... I have a few of the new Zastava versions of the Tokarev, nice to know they're likely reasonably robust.
Pretty cool. After 8:20 you can see the slide getting hung up as it travels. Usually you can't see it clearly moving back and forth, but at that magazine discharge it's obviously slow.
Do a CZ-52, see if the Czech solution to a 7.62x25mm service pistol does any better (or worse)!
I ve got the same shovel at home. My grandpa found it into a glacier on the italian alps during the 60s when he worked as park ranger.
In before the next propaganda video in Russian Television
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@@beardoggin8963 Had to do it, but I think it won't happen because it isn't the standard issue sidearm of the Russian military anymore.
Glorious tokarev is beloved by capitalistic pig dogs
@Kostas Karadimos We will see ^^
Won't have to lie this time, innit?
Thanks, Karl. I've been wanting to see more on the Tokarev, especially Norinco, since I was gifted one last year. It is an impressive pistol!
Glad to see comments are back on. Love this series.
These mud tests (and the sand tests) are my favourite!
Can you guys mud test a Cz or a Cz clone like the jericho or tristar
8:30 you can see when the slide doesn't go into battery. Very nice camera angle!
I love my Tokarev. I even use it in my EDC rotation. It's a natural pointer for me.
Vielen Dank Karl!
You guys are doing an awesome job of improving these videos every time.
I can't even see some of the complaints here on the YT comments because unlike you guys I can't read through most of them if not all of them.
Best wishes from a pro-gun german
Hope you guys are doing well over there with all the political turmoil.
"pro gun German"
Wie? Ich bin nicht der einzige?? :D
@@krautandsalo ;)
I have a Norinco type 54-1 that I got used, dirty, and lightly rusted. I cleaned her up, and so far 500 rounds with no hiccups. Makes a great stash gun.
463 upvotes, zero downvotes. Love the standardization throughout and the grading at the end!
I love the old war horse both of mine will hold 3 inch groups at 25 yards with new ammo surplus ammo is another story its all over the place hard to even call it a grouping. I occasionally get a failure to go into battery with surplus ammo with out a ton of mud in the pistol.
At 2:36 it sounds like a ricochet goes right by him as he's talking.
That's the KGB agent missing.
The way the slide hesitated when it returned to battery at 8:25 reminds me of laggy video game
AR15: *Laughs in wheelbarrow*
I love tokarevs, great caliber too!
The Orange earplug makes it look like an Airsoft replica
My tokarev is one of my favorite surplus guns I own. I love collecting C&R to shoot. I had to replace springs in the magazines to get it working proper.
Just for information - dry firing TT can broke cross pin that holds firing pin. Was reading about few accidents during WWII when that issue caused firing pin to 'fly out' from slide after shot directly into shooter's eye. (I'm not 100% sure that is true, but keep that in mind - broken cross pin and stuck firing pin looks pretty possible issue at least)
Haha! Wow, you can see the delay in the slide when returning to battery on that last mag.
I love mine, I have a norinco version and it came with a hard chrome barrel. About a thousand rounds later it's still going strong.
Commissar Karl of the NKVD has trouble liquidating Kulaks after dropping Workers and Peasants pistol into the Fascist counterrevolutionary mud
A Makarov PM, or any soviet/eastern block 9x18mm Makarov pistol (even a CZ-82), would be a good candidate for a mud test. They replaced the TT-33 in combloc countries.
I would unironically buy an In Range combat smock
Heh this video reminds me of a story from My great grandfather who fought in the red army during WW2, he said that he once dropped his pistol into mud during the liberation of Poland and it worked for the first three rounds than it had stopped firing due to failure to battery, he had to smack his gun against a hard surface to get it working, while Germans were shooting at him, remarking "we might not have the best equipment in the world, but everything could be fixed by smacking it with a rock or log or helmet..."
I think that these torture tests are some of the most important firearms testing that can be done, much respect to in range for these tests
At 2:37, was that a ricochet zinging by?
Oh damn look i rewatched it to make sure I wasn’t loosing my mind. Check it out last mag you can watch the slide go into battery really slow on two shots. That’s neat to actually see without slow motion
Went back and watched it was the 1st and 4th round in the last mag
I repaint water towers for a living. Seeing Karl put that mag in his mouth made me pucker right up. Lead poisoning is no joke. I’m still dealing with the aftermath of ingesting/inhaling lead particles over time. Stay safe homie!
The slide stuttered some on that last mag. It went into battery in slow motion.
Interesting to see how on the last mag, you can see how much slower the slide is reciprocating.
Its interesting how the slide gets stuck backwards for a few extra milliseconds at the end
I would be interested in a barrel obstructing test with mud & one with dust,, in a safe setting of course !!
As always,, it’s been a pleasure to watch this (again !)
I dunno if this is actually useful information or not, but it seems like every shot that fails to return to firing position or is the last shot in a mag ejects in a different direction than shots that are not followed by a failure. The "bad" shots seem to eject directly back over your head and the "good" shots seem to go much more to your right (but still pretty high). The only thing I can think of is that the slide isn't going back at exactly the same speed consistently.
I had a Norinco clone for many years. It was a nice truck gun. I always found it to be a really good shooter. It was shocking how easy it was to make long shots with it. 7.62x25 is NO joke. I always liked the half cock feature. I was raised on single action revolvers and lowering the hammer on a Tokarev was second nature to me. I could get that Norinco into action pretty fast as well. I bought it with an SKS and 1200 rounds of ammo. Got the whole Communist insurgency package...ammo, stripper clips, web gear, everything brand new and in the Cosmoline. Gotta love the Tulsa gun show back in the day.
I'm a simple man. I see a mud test video. I click mud test video
To me, it looked like there was a few bits towards the end that the slide hung up mid-cycle slightly.
Fastest click I think i’ve done. PS I hope you don’t have to lock the video because of nutty people taking offense to whatever the result is. :/
Dante M I know right I just watch the video and see how the gun does when it is put in mud and dirt I don’t have a bias towards or against any gun because I know that every gun is not mud proof and know that some guns do better than others
Best EDC gun ever made.
"I'm gonna close it" *unconfident teeth grit hand shakes* 3:56
Certified, certified. Can't get any more certified than that.
Impressive. Personally I like the Yugo/Serb M57 variant. An extra round per mag and the extra grip length are nice and the add-on safeties are slightly less garbage on most of them, at the very least they tend to be in a 'normal' location. The new production M57A is also pretty nice and has a safety that is much less of an after thought, though still a little rough around the edges, literally. Had to take a jeweler's file to the edges around the slide mounted safety, but once that got smoothed out, it made for a nice Tokarev variant. Still have to laugh though about the original military one I got first. When I got it, it was so packed full of cosmoline, you could drop the slide and watch it close in slow motion, a bit like this one does once it got gritty enough, but even slower.
I just love these pistols - all variants, whether it be Russian, Polish, Romanian, Chinese, etc. - they're all fantastic handguns.
Watching the slide was like slow motion, but with out the expensive camera set up
I think my favorite mud test yet!
HK USP next pls :)
@Zack Ceasar link?
Thanks!
Where can I acquire one of those certified InRange water buckets?
What happened to the official InRange wheelbarrow?!
On that last mag you could measure the slide cycle time with a stop watch!
8:27 the slide stays back much longer than it should just after firing, doesn't it?
The beauty of this gun is that under normal battlefield conditions you can beat the shit out of it and the vast majority of the time it'll still function.
6:37 People complaining that your non scientific tests aren't completely consist? Why am I not suprised. Oh well, this was another entertaining video as always guys.
What I've always wanted to do for a TT33 is have it cerakoted two-tone finish, get some nice custom-made grips for it, have the trigger tuned and the sights replaced.. It would make a unique style small-scale 1911 shooting a round that makes noise and a macho muzzle blast :D
The TT-33 did pretty well indeed. Thanks Karl!
2:58 Baking Tokarev brownies? Reminds me of MattV2099!
Gun would have performed better but the ammunition was Polish, and we all know how well the Pols and the Russians get along.
I have a Chinese 9mm tok my dad bought in the 90s, for years it wouldn’t cycle more than two rounds. When I began getting more and more interested in guns I took it apart and cleaned what I could but it still jammed every couple of shots so I decided to take the mags apart and clean inside and oil them, now it’ll cycle anything I put through it
where can i get MY "In-Range Certified" water?
Now THAT'S mud! Well done! in Louisiana, we call that Gumbo Mud, and it's some foul shit.
TT-30/33 is very sensitive for the mud and it has very powerful cartridge with the lack of stopping power. Because of that, TT got very quickly (for the army standards) was changed for the PM.