I kind of have a thing for Tokarev pistols. I do have a variety of them and I also think they are one of the interesting hand guns to come out of WW 2. They combined the design of John M. Browning with the manufacturing techniques they had available. I am not going into the history of the TT 33 Tokarev, it has already been written about on the internet . I just found on my trip through the mid-west this last year a new version that I have never seen before. The 22 trainer. Here are a set of pictures that I took of one of the pistols that I looked at. It seems that everyone out there has one because I saw a number of them.
A close up of the inset cartridge.
Sorry about this picture. I tried to get a close up of the slide bolt face to show the firing pin location.
This is how it came with the 7 sub-caliber devices.
I don’t know if this pistol was actually used in the military training or just a pistol made for the civilian market. I just know that I would really like one. So if anyone knows were one exists one for sale please let me know.
The most interesting technical aspect of this Polish ‘Sportowy’ [translation:training] pistol is the function of the insert cartridge as an ejectable floating chamber. There is a 5mm gap in front of a chambered cartridge which converts it into a piston. Same principle as the Williams floating chamber in the Colt Ace .22lr versions of the Government Model.
A company RPG Firearms have these for Sale, here in Australia.
Cheers!
I think they call the Sportowy’s : http://www.rpgfirearms.com.au/pistol.html