Comments on: Chinese pistol

By: S.N.A.L

S.N.A.L — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 21:42:17 +0000

not blow back ? not sure…

rotating barrel locking: there is locking recesses in the slide :

http://gunlab.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DSC_6204s.jpg

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:35:20 +0000

7.62 Mauser or Tokerev I don’t care, if it was 7.62 browning I might consider it, but the recoil spring doesn’t look to me to be capable of handling that even

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:14:06 +0000

Yes there is rifling, it’s crude but there.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:12:04 +0000

We make weapons here and I am amazed of the work this person accomplished with the limited tools he had.

By: TRX

TRX — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:07:21 +0000

Having tried my hand at scratchbuilding with limited tools, I’m in minor awe at the amount of effort the builder put into that.

It’s easy to look down on a rough finish and chisel marks until you’ve tried removing more than a trivial amount of metal that way.

By: Cherndog

Cherndog — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 21:16:19 +0000

This pistol seems to be chambered for 7.63×25 Mauser, which was weaker than the Tokarev…

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:37:07 +0000

It looks like a crude copy of a Ruby to me.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:46:22 +0000

7.62×25 in a blow back? ha ha ha, nope! couldn’t extort me into pulling the trigger!
all jokes aside, this actually very interesting to look at it in terms of where everything came from, some of it is easy really, the cocking “grips” for lack of a more descriptive term are lifted right from a Mauser C96 as these Chinese pistols are want to do in most cases, the trigger looks to based of of the M1911, which I wouldn’t have put in China till WWII, I believe the TT-30 and TT-33 Russian handguns use the same trigger, but I wouldn’t expect them to make it into china till WWII either, which puts the gun at fairly late manufacture.
How does the gun take-down? it doesn’t have the Browning cross pin in front of the triggerguad, and the uninterrupted rails would prevent the slide from being able to be lifted off the frame at rearmost travel, there is a lug on the front of the barrel looks like it might line up with the mainspring housing on the slide at lock-up, or what passes for it, is it the Colt 1900 system? where you retract the slide and turn the barrel? that would make sense of the hook on the safety arm, and what looks to be two points for it to lock into the slide.
out of curiosity, does the safety work? or is it purely aesthetic?
and does the Colt 1900 use the same trigger system? because that would make sense as the Colt was used at least in Shanghai, which might allow it to influence a gunsmith further inland.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 11:49:21 +0000

Very neat. Any rifling? You should try fitting some other mags and also see what fits the chamber.