Overview of Soviet Military Handguns: Nagant, Tokarev, Makarov

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Today we are looking at an overview of Soviet military service sidearms. This begins with the Model 1895 Nagant revolver, inherited from the Czarist Russian Army. The Nagant was adopted as the standard Red Army handgun, specifically in double action. Soviet refitting led to single-action Nagant revolvers being extremely rare today. In the late 1920s, a development program for a new semiautomatic pistol was run, which resulted in adoption of the TT30 Tokarev. Refinement of the Tokarev led to the TT33, adopted in 1933 and entering significant production in late 1935.
The Tokarev was considered a flawed pistol, and a new program in the late 1930s looked to replace it. A new design was chosen, but the German invasion in 1941 ended that project, and the Tokarev and Nagant would serve together through the end of World War Two. In the aftermath of the war, the Soviet Union adopted a wholly new suite of small arms. The new pistol was to be something lighter and handier, and with better safety features than the Tokarev. The PM Makarov was adopted to this end, and entered production in the early 1950s. It was used through the collapse of the Soviet Union, with a PMM (modernized) version unveiled in 1990, with a larger magazine. Eventually, the Russian Federation adopted the MP-443 Grach in 2003, a locker-breech 9x19mm pistol to replace the Makarovs.
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[@ZGryphon]

I have a double-action Nagant, and the 40,000-ton DA trigger pull makes Tsarist officers' concern that their men couldn't be trusted with the double-action version even more hilarious than it already would have been. It's hard work to make one of those things go off on _purpose,_ let alone by accident. :)

[@Ailasher]

"oncern that their men couldn't be trusted with the double-action version even more hilarious" Nope. It's not funny. At all. The Russian aristocracy, which obviously made decisions because Russia was an absolute monarchy with the broadest rights of the aristocracy, treated the commoners in much the same way as the white majority of US treated the black population at that time. Only there was no racial undertone, only a social one. "It is forbidden to enter with dogs and for lower ranks" - well known signs on a shops in St. Petersburg. Another reason why the Bolsheviks won.

[@ZGryphon]

@@Ailasher There is such a thing as _gallows_ humor, after all. A thing doesn't have to be pleasant to be funny.

[@Ailasher]

@@ZGryphon Point taken.

[@GordonTurnerpark]

The only reason firearms like the Nagant revolver, Tokerav and even the Mosin Nagant soldiered on so long is because of the backwards nature of Communism.

[@Zigfried207]

Btw thats one of reasons why soviets gave everyone double-action I guess Ideologically, that makes sense

[@gameragodzilla]

Interesting how the Soviets went from a short recoil autoloader to a simple blowback, when most other countries went the opposite direction.

[@WardenWolf]

I think the Soviets had the right idea, though. In the post-WW2 era where everyone has 30+ round magazines in self-loading rifles, you're not going to be using your pistol nearly as often as in WW2 and before. It goes from being an important stopgap when caught reloading or being overrun to being something you'll only use in a rare dire emergency where probably no pistol will save you or in extremely tight environments, and for that the Makarov is perfectly suited. It's powerful enough, it's lightweight and compact, it's simple, it's reliable, and it's accurate. And it's extremely safe. How often have our soldiers actually had to use their M9? In how many of those occurrencesz would a Makarov been perfectly adequate? Probably at least 95% of them.

[@gameragodzilla]

@@WardenWolf Yeah, though even the Russians eventually adopted a double stack 9mm, so evidently the extra power and capacity eventually became relevant.

[@gameragodzilla]

@@nono-jj9rr Really really early on in the development of autoloading hanguns, so 1890's or 1900's. And yeah, eventually everyone went to some form of a short recoil locked breech pistol.

[@justalurker3489]

​@nono-jj9rr I'm pretty sure that Belgium adopted the FN 1900 in .38 ACP before WWI, it looks like the Tokerev, but it's a straight blowback.

[@Crazy_AK_Bear1077]

​​@@WardenWolfWhen you mentioned the M9. I almost started laughing. In my 10 yrs, active duty, carried the same one for almost 9 of them. Every time I had an armorer tell me, 'Your safety/decocker is bad. It only decocks, doesn't go on safe. You can DA while it's indicating safe'. I'm going, Ok what's the problem? Just change the barrel, don't touch the internals. It works just fine when I need it. Never had a problem, with it in weapons qualifications. Let alone a shoot house.

[@billcook7285]

I remember in the 90s, when the Nagant revolvers were imported to the US. They practically gave them away. But you couldn't find ammo anywhere.

[@tedmichas7709]

When i bought mine there was a conversion cyclinder to 32acp

[@billcook7285]

@@tedmichas7709 I never saw that.

[@donwyoming1936]

They were about $60-$70 wholesale. You could get Fiocchi ammo back then for about $20-$30 box. By the late 90s, Russian military ammo had become available.

[@billcook7285]

@@donwyoming1936 I don't think I paid $60 for the pistol.

[@user-wg8zj7dq1g]

I had one back then. Didn't know that you can use various .32 revolver rounds.

[@Hosenfuhrer]

7:30 Naturally, however, you absolutely shouldn't run 7.62 Tokarev in a Mauser broomhandle, thanks to the higher pressure. I've heard stories about Finnish troops that have destroyed some broomhandles by doing that, since the cartridge dimensions are practically identical.

[@scottmccrea1873]

One would think that whichever cartridge came second would have been made in a way to readily distinguish it from the other if that's the case. But nope. Let fortune decide! said the engineer! Like the guys who designed the Pinto. "It won't happen _that_ often. We're good enough."

[@martinswiney2192]

So if a Finnish troop blows up a Broomhandle doe he become a Finish troop? 😂

[@Hosenfuhrer]

@@Bob-qk2zg I have some hazy memory that there's an even hotter load for SMGs, but no idea how true that is.

[@messmeister92]

@@scottmccrea1873the Pinto reference is going to fly right past some folks, but those of us who understand are laughing our asses off 🤣

[@mrdizzy678]

​@@scottmccrea1873they never saw the Gremlins coming.

[@25xxfrostxx]

I have a Smith and Wesson No. 3 in .44 Russian. Odd part is, my great uncle got it from a Japanese officer at Iwo Jima. Our guess is, it was a pickup all the way back in the early 1900s by someone and it kicked around Japan for 40 years or so.

[@samuelprice2461]

Actually not an unheard of story at all. The Imperial Japanese government used the No. 3 Russian as their standard issue sidearm for a number of years in the late 1800s. Many of them hung around for a long time.

[@BryanJohnson4891]

Russian officer has no. 3 in 1905 Goes over to Port Arthur Jap officer takes it as a trophy Gives it to his son/grandson They bring it to Ieo Jima You end up with it 2025 Mars war Martian space command officer kills you Takes it 2,000 Light years from Terra, year 40,000 Horus kills an imperial guard officer Picks up his No. 3 Thinks “Huh reloading this is gonna be a nightmare”

[@Montycat78]

Very nice of that Japanese officer to give him the S&W. Hope they stayed in touch 😊

[@25xxfrostxx]

@@Montycat78 He felt that he had no further use for it. One of his friends also gave him a raw silk battle flag that I held onto as well. Quite a generous people. The flag even came with free DNA spots on it.

[@causewaykayak]

Thats a really neat way to tell a fascinating story 👍🏼

[@genericpersonx333]

Mind, the problem with the TT not shooting well through tank pistol-ports had some legitimate grounding. The Red Army paid very close attention to the performance of their tanks in the Spanish Civil War and infantry swarming tanks was a huge problem. Several times, Republican tankers were compelled to shoot the enemy off their tanks with small arms. This being a time when most tanks were still using flags and hand-signals to communicate, asking friendly tanks or infantry to hose down the problem was much more complicated than it would be later.

[@cameronnewton7053]

Even at the start of WW2 the chronic lack of radio in Soviet tanks would still make it a legitimate issue.

[@TiocfaidhArLa34]

why not put some underfolder PPS43s in the tank for that? seems like it would not take up too much space to keep 2 or 3 of them in the tank with a couple mags a piece.

[@stinkybuttrat]

​@@TiocfaidhArLa34 what do you think the 43 stands for in that name?

[@genericpersonx333]

That would be partly because we are discussing thinking in the time period of 1936-1941 when there aren't folding SMGs like PPs43 yet in the Red Army inventory. That also doesn't solve the problem that even the best SMGs INSIDE the tank can't do much to hurt bad guys outside the tank without opening a hatch, which is when the bad guys put nasty things through said hatch. The actual solution was always just improve the coordination of tanks with infantry so the tanks didn't have bad people crawling all over them in the first place, but you would be surprised how many militaries even in 1939 were convinced that tanks and infantry shouldn't stick very close together, even the nations that had "infantry support" as a primary mission for their tanks! 1936-1941 was a very wacky time to be a tanker. @@TiocfaidhArLa34

[@DmitryKandiner]

Two points: PM stands for Пистолет Макарова, transliterated as "Pistolet Makarova", - Makarov's Pistol (note that there is no "n" there). Also, it seems that the APS (Stechkin's Automatic Pistol) somehow escaped this overview.

[@Horgler]

The APS wasn’t really a standard Soviet sidearm like these were. Maybe if he gets access to more specialized handguns like the PB and PSS he’ll do a part 2.

[@alexeytsybyshev9459]

Yankee doodle went to town On a little pony He stuck a pistol on his belt And called it "Makarovni"

[@Saren-yc1rk]

APS was a really niche gun, that also no one actually liked for how huge and heavy it is for a pistol, and awkward to to shoot for a submachine gun. Much more of a flop than TT-33.

[@paleoph6168]

Ah yes, the Soviet standard sidearm trinity: Nagant, Tokarev, and Makarov.

[@greycatturtle7132]

😂

[@MrQwerman]

А стечкин?

[@Dellloga]

😇 🙏

[@doc43souls74]

@@MrQwerman Тут скорее всего обсуждаются общевойсковые пистолеты, или даже пистолеты конкретно для пехоты, в то время как Стечкин создавался с изначальной целью вооружения только офицеров, сержантов, солдат некоторых конкретных специальностей и для экипажей боевых машин, которым не полагался карабин или ПП.

[@sonnysantana5454]

and the stechkin pistol

[@robertrobert7924]

Since I own these pistols (except for the last one) it was really interesting to review their history with Ian and morning coffee. Thanks Ian.

[@stinkypete2548]

These collection videos are awesome man. Would be awesome to see more.

[@coreymerrill3257]

I feel heard . I definitely mentioned how they use the same barrel blanks for as many guns as possible. It was a big deal for logistics and weapons design. If your handgun, smg, carbine,rifle, and small caliber machine guns all use the same barrel blanks , it saves time and money as well as theoretically giving all of your personal small arms more durable barrels because the barrel material must be usable in machine guns .

[@antontsau]

Russian legend is that TT were made from failed, noncompliant rifle barrels, just cut them to smaller pieces and select reusable ones.

[@mikemoore4033]

That pistol in the middle may have had a lot of problems, but it sure is pretty.

[@garan111]

They copied the look from Browning 1903. But on the Tokarev the trigger group is removable with no tools

[@P_RO_]

Some more Tokarev history: In it's day the usual carry mode for almost all armies was chamber empty, so lacking a safety was considered almost a non-issue. That also allowed more economical manufacture which mattered a lot in those world depression days, as well as making the use simpler and with fewer things to go wrong or break. When the USSR broke up, Russia became infested with criminal gangs whose sources of arms was limited to mostly what corrupt military personnel could supply. They chose the Tokarev for slimness or the Makarov for compact size as their needs might dictate. Though not by intent, the Tokarev was found to readily penetrate the early soft ballistic vests. This was before or at the beginning of the 'level' ratings, and they made special "Tokarev rated" vests for that. Apparently the Asian criminal elements of the time also had quite a few Tokarevs in use as the Hong Kong police force was the first to commonly use those special vests. Body armor is better these days and almost all of it will handle the Tokarev now but for regular FMJ bullets, the Tokarev cartridge still has some of the deepest penetration found in a pistol.

[@antontsau]

almost right. In 1990s TT were not stealed from army (where they were not used for more than 30 years) but from abundant storages, where they laid still since rearming to PM and no one cared about 1000s of oily 50 yo crates to check. Plus many of them were available as dig-outs, by illegal excavations of WWII battlefields.

[@causewaykayak]

Usual great production - packed with interest. Thank you.

[@ZekeAxel]

6:57 - The C96 Mauser is like, the iconic Russian Civil War pistol you'd see in movies.

[@BlipperOfRays]

Exactly. And it was immortalized in Vladimir Mayakovsky's "The Left March": "Ваше слово, товарищ Маузер".

[@nunyabidniz2868]

Hence "Bolo" for the short-barreled C96 model favored by the Bolsheviks... Also why the 7.62 Tok was adopted, since it's basically just a higher-pressure variant of the 7.62 Mauser they already knew & loved!

[@alcedob.5850]

@danijelovskikanal7017to be fair, it only could appear in the final years of the 'Wild' West. It was imported in the US in 1901 as far as I am aware. I've seen information that Texas rangers bought some in 1902 but couldn't find the primary source (it was supposed to be photo of cpt. Brooks of Brownsville, TX). However, the gun appeared in some westerns. I can definitely remember it in Corbucci's 'Il Grande Silenzio'

[@user-gc9ld1gn4l]

Thank you very much for this interesting history lesson and the context of each new model

[@el_wumberino]

Dear Ian, To me the most enjoyable parts of your videos are always the historical facts. Your profund knowledge, your love for details, your passionate and very likeable presentations are fascinating-and, my goodness, it’s all ad-lib! I lift my hat in greatest respect to you. Keep up the good work, mate!

[@williamwilliams7706]

This channel and Ian are always a great source of information.

[@th3mrmeeseeks277]

I love Ian and forgotten weapons, but $50 for a mug is too much.

[@MrGunnerru]

Seriously cool video!!!! Thank you.

[@Ryan-T-Hart]

Great video, thank you & have a great holiday!

[@g54b95]

Combloc pistols are my thing. I appreciate your work, Ian. Merry Christmas!

[@russwoodward8251]

Fascinating. Thanks.

[@me.ne.frego.]

A video about the origins of the gas-seal system including the Pieper and García Reynoso revolver would be awesome.

[@jameswood8796]

Tokarev Rocks!! Especially the m57TT improvement of it. You did a review on it but not a shooting video. Maybe you should.

[@Vin_San]

Thanks for the video I like this new format of retrospective in small arm of a certain category or country. Thus video look very like the interview you made with the Russian expert in handgun ammo, but, more condensed, more clear, we can read the complete script, it's nice. (although, maybe put this old video in description?) (as a not native English speaker, but with a good enough level, this is easier to get the info and setting in mind than an a hour long webcall/interview (both are valuable and the longer video with this sir have its pros))

[@AlexN2022]

Ian, please do a video on Russian pistols after Makarov. You already did PSM, but I'm sure there's more to say if it's put in context.

[@FoxtrotFleet]

I hope Ian will do something similar with all the Walther PP/Makarov clones of the Warsaw Pact. I can't find any comprehensive video or series of videos comprising of them all. I find those little double action compact .32/.380/9mmMak clones quite fascinating!

[@IWatchedWhat]

I have a post war 1947 Soviet TT33 and I love it, mine is a non import pistol. The person I inherited it from brought it home in a duffel. Years ago there was a guy in Canada that made muzzle brakes for them, I have one on mine and I use it in out IDPA shoots sometimes just to keep in practice with it.

[@Rickster621]

I think that even if it wasn't Soviet era, the SR1MP pistol program is really cool. And should be covered here.

[@greycatturtle7132]

Yea

[@yochaiwyss3843]

I read it as "shrimp"

[@napatora]

​@@yochaiwyss3843glad i wasn't the only one

[@napatora]

"i carried the shrimp when i was in the red army"

[@greycatturtle7132]

@@yochaiwyss3843 xD its a good name

[@rambie2131]

getting my mp446 and tt-30 out, ive been waiting for this vid XD

[@ryantyson2008]

Love those old Soviet guns! Great video Ian!

[@rotwang2000]

Ian did forget the Podbyrin 9.2mm, the most powerful handgun ever made.

[@doc43souls74]

lmao

[@actionjksn]

500 S&W Magnum is the most powerful in the world.

[@ChibabaDave]

The guy whonwrote that line must know about firearms.

[@rotwang2000]

@@actionjksn Incorrect comrade, please check the most excellent documentary "Red Heat" about an average Soviet Militsiya officer using the Podbryn 9.2mm doing routine police work in USSR and you will discover performance far exceeds that of capitalist inferior revolver technology comrade.

[@DSlyde]

9:08 does anyone have a name or any details about this ultimately unsuccessful replacement pistol? I'd love to read more about it.

[@gilmour6754]

Yeah I'm also super curious about this! I've never heard that they wanted to replace the tt-33 before ww2.

[@Alemikkola]

Leaving a comment to get notified when someone comes up with the answer.

[@X_Voidhawk_X]

am really curious aswell, does anyone know?

[@ForgottenWeapons]

Voevodin

[@doc43souls74]

A really kinda nice gun, even got made a bit (from 500 to 1500 pistols were already made by the time of German invasion), yet sadly the invasion started and the factories weren't re-tooled for the production of Voevodin pistol.

[@d.b.1176]

I wish I got a Nagant pistol back when they were $99 😢

[@silverjohn6037]

7:00 Please don't think you can do the reverse and use a Russian 7.62 Tokarev round in a C 96 Mauser though. I had a friend who lost an eye firing 7.62 out of a C 96 Mauser and having the action blow back in his face.

[@Ashcrash82]

I happened to stumble onto an 1895 Nagant that is indeed still single action only. Unfortunately, it is a mix-master of parts so really doesn't have much value. It has a sideplate the the Peter the Great mark (dated 1913), but doesn't have the serial number where it should be on the frame. There are also a few small parts in it marked with the Tula star, which I believe dates them to the later 1920s.

[@northamericanproductions]

Great video as usual on historic military firearms. Have you ever thought about making a video of your own personal historic firearms that you're collecting? I'd love a video on what you decided to put your hard earned money on.

[@muneefahsan8213]

That whoooop was lit

[@he_exe]

Thank you so much for this video, im in the process of deciding which pistol to get as my first handgun and the choice was badically between the three! Helped me a bunch

[@spacetoast4874]

A Romanian tokarev Tt-c was my first gun I bought and carried lol. Jacketed hollow Points of course.

[@jonathanhudak2059]

Great stuff love it! Cool video thank you Ian!

[@tylerlondon5052]

I own all but the last pistol and still learned a lot!

[@peterwright217]

so, how many firearms have you had on this brilliant and informative show. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@CthulhuZscar]

Love this video. Im only missing a Nagant revolver to complete my Soviet pistol collection.

[@johnharder5618]

Interesting video I had a Makarov for a short while It shot 100% reliable and even shot decent groups But it had a 20+ trigger pull There was also a issue with the chamber that might have been by design or a flaw As the chamber had a slight flare right at the end of the case mouth I didn't have a gauge to measure it But it was maybe a .001 or .0015 flare all the way around the chamber With Steel cased ammo I never had problems But with brass cased ammo it still worked , but the slide seemed to be slower cycling

[@kalin6149]

No offense ian, but whoever decided that a cleaning mat for 49.99$ with a meme on it as the only way to enter was a terrible decision. At 30$ id think about it, but not 50$ + S&H.

[@brittakriep2938]

According to a german arms magazine, a large number of remaining S&W revolvers had been converted to flareguns for reason of the breakdown mechanism. Is this true?

[@jamesgornall5731]

Awesome

[@ComradeCole]

"When we want to shoot our own guys, we'll do it on purpose, not by accident!" - some Soviet Officer, probably.

[@lanceuppercut1845]

I missed the content… Ian is the man…

[@72polara]

The Nagant gas seal does an excellent job of keeping fouling out of the action. Would have been great with black powder; the cylinder wouldn't bind with fouling.

[@holysol]

man the makarov is such a stylish looking gun, i wish there was one in a regular commonplace cartridge

[@alexeysaphonov232]

It could expended back into Russian Empire with S&W model 3 and Galland. In sovjet segment there are also Stechkin, PSM, PB. In sport segment there is also Korowin and e.g. toz-35.

[@Naamah-Az]

Stechkin APS/APB?

[@alexeysaphonov232]

@@Naamah-Az Automatitscheskiy Pistolet Stechkina (APS aka Stechkin's Automatic Pistol). (Automatitscheskiy) Pistolet Besshumniy (A)PB (aka [autmatic] silanced pistol).

[@DoubleyouCeeGee]

What pistol was chosen to replace the TT pre-WW2 before being scrapped?

[@ForgottenWeapons]

The Voevodin.

[@Vin_San]

In this new format, I would love so much to have on the same table a lot of French weird guns (and we're proud of them 😂) with Chauchat, RSC, the weird SMGs, the AA-52 and so on. Now your French is fine (and French are better in English), I hope you'll be able, like, to present, like this video, but in the Museum des Invalides (main French army museum)! Also, collection of "Kraut Space Magic, 1898 to 2018" with kirkie German(ic) guns (German+Austrian+germanic Swiss like SIG) Or a collection on Belgian firearm from their "golden age".

[@spencercar8080]

It would be cool to see a video about the MP-443 Grach.

[@stephenbond1990]

Do you have any information on the pistol design that was being considered to replace the TT in 1941?

[@tristanconnolly5675]

Nice.

[@benjaminhenegar291]

Ian please do a video on the rsh-12 revolver

[@Juraimy]

sick

[@heavensadistancenotaplace]

interesting to note would have been the differences in nagant production from factory to factory and within time periods. i.e., earlier nagants had rounded front sites, and izhevsk factory had different wood (or finish at least, idk nothin about woodworking) for the grips (a lot lighter than the tula factory grips.) maybe by the time izhevsk was ramping production, like the mosins built there, that's all they could use; idk. mines 1938 with a refurbed chamber, pointed front sight and darker grips. i know you mentioned there were some upgrades, but the front sightpost is a pretty massive upgrade imo. and it's nice that you mention russians believed it to be accurate, it has a horrible reputation in the USA because the refurbed chambers create problems, most common being it almost always requires retiming for swift double action use. but accuracy supposedly was limited by these chambers. true non-refurbed nagants are insanely rare and genuine ones tend to be very sought after. but, my nagant (in full power, like nuclear loads 3x SAAMI specs (which is extremely underpowered, hence the EXTREMELY underpowered loads from europe) is the only sidearm ive shot to 100y extremely consistently. it's my fav gun and i genuinely carry it all the time (single action tho, since my cylinder has timing issues...) even though the sites require you to aim like 4" low even at like 10y LMAO. at 100y i think i was aiming 1.5 (if not 2) feet low with really hot loads; it eventually became my natural instinct to aim very low (esp since my tokarev similarly shoots a little high) and is a bad habit now that i mainly carry a glock 29 that's zeroed to 20y poa/poi. one problem w the nagant's casings is they are too thin, if you have a strong load (even just a bit stronger than surplus loads with fiocchi casings...) you'll stick the chamber forward sometimes which can require the use of a hammer or something to unstick it. but, you can comfortably get like 300-350ftlb w.o this with new casings; even 30-40% stronger than surplus! (i wish we could reform the surplus steel cases) also, my #1 issue w the gun is obv the extractor. no spring sucks, it can be a real pain to get cases out of the cylinder, i can still reload it in like 14seconds w a speedstrip but man it can be DIFFICULT to extract cases if you're shooting strong loads, slow burning powders like h110 (for the fireball, of course) make it doubly difficult in my experience... ANOTHER interesting thing to mention would have been, even if it doesn't matter for history, the fact some ppl redrilled the cylinders for 7.62x25. the nagant was so overbuilt, mine has taken so much abuse in terms of nuclear 7.62x39r loads. i love it to death, it's my favorite gun i own and the #1 gun i wouldn't sell.

[@user-om3pi9rf3y]

رااائع

[@heavensadistancenotaplace]

@@user-om3pi9rf3y what lol

[@Suger5zero]

The Tokerav is my favorite pistol

[@tsarfox3462]

The Soviet system of adoption makes a lot of sense for the time as does the American one. America was already heavily industrialized so they had plants ready to receive a design and spit it out. The Soviets were still industrializing and building up factories so they basically planned a factory to make a gun and when the factory was done, the adopted gun was ready for mass production.

[@AlexN2022]

Nagant revolver lends itself to being suppressed. Which makes its history more interesting

[@gunsforevery1]

Is there any history of them being suppressed on a scale that matters? I believe that’s only a modern western thing that’s sometimes done.

[@AlexN2022]

@@gunsforevery1 I believe it was used suppressed by the NKVD. I'm sure it wasn't at any scale that would matter, but it's still pretty cool as a piece of history

[@Tu11iy]

​@@gunsforevery1a couple thousand were made before and during WW2. Developed since 1929. Special subsonic cartridge too. They basically made it all work and it saw limited use in spec ops and with partisans, but was largely forgotten after WW2.

[@Tu11iy]

​@@gunsforevery1the name of the suppressor and cartridge system is БраМит - Братья Митины (Mityn brothers - named after the engineers who designed it, like all soviet small arms of the period).

[@gunsforevery1]

@@Tu11iy 7.62x38 is already subsonic. Its super underpowered.

[@manicmachinegun6253]

The double action of the nagant revolver is stupid heavy I don't know how you would accidentally be able to pull it 😂

[@aj5748]

Just in time for my Metro 2033 replay. Thanks, comrade!

[@ndreyfimcev7486]

PM was also a police standard pistol, i think that is one of the reason was to have less powerful pistol then TT.

[@doc43souls74]

Don't think so, as it was made for the competition of handguns for the high command of the USSR army.

[@aeroblitzt9561]

Anyone know what gun Ian was referring to when he was talking about the tokarev's replacement just before operation barbarossa?

[@doc43souls74]

Voevodin pistol

[@derpherbert3199]

The indent on the wall next to Ian's left ear made me wipe my screen

[@valvlad3176]

07:50 you are good in that! Tokarev does have problems - how do you know that? Man you are good in that, keep it.

[@taskforcekarma6945]

If I remember correctly the PMM pistols weren't widely adopted in the newly formed Russian Armed Forces due to some reliability issues and most Russian soldiers fielded the standard Makarov PM until the implementation of the MP-443 Grach. However even with the MP-443 Grach being entered into service, the Makarov remained popular for several more years until its recent replacement being the Udav Pistol which was supposed to enter service around 2022-2023, however I am not sure if the Ukraine-Russian conflict has complicated the implementation of the Udav pistol in Russian service.

[@actionjksn]

Some guys on KZbin took a Nagant pistol and cut the front sight off it and threaded the barrel and put a can on it. That thing was almost Hollywood movie quiet. That is the big advantage of the cylinder sealing feature. You cannot normally put a can on a revolver because of the cylinder gap. Being a revolver there is also no metal clanking and making noise. This would kind of be the ultimate assassins tool, because it's also not going to leave any spent shell casings. The sealed up cylinder is also probably helpful because of it being an underpowered cartridge and it can use all the help it can get.

[@TiocfaidhArLa34]

"cut the front sight off" THEY WHAT?!

[@uberlol2228]

ian, could you post about the trials that were done to replace the tokarev before operation barbarossa?

[@bosef1]

Obligatory reference to exceptional caliber of Soviet Yunyun.

[@Stevarooni]

Cool exploration of about a century of Russian standard-issue sidearms. 🙂

[@SayakMajumder]

7:39 What was this replacement of the Tokarev during the early 1940s? Any name?

[@Clipgatherer]

Maybe the famous Soviet “pistol wavers” of World War II were merely holding their Tokarev pistols aloft for security reasons. 😊

[@enigmaticdesires8158]

I have the PMM verient..The Baikal 442. It's my EDC. Only, mine has a standard western style mag release behind the trigger.

[@CalebNomar]

Can you do a video on the MP443 if possible

[@nonyabiz9487]

Russian firearms are often laughed at however in my eyes they are actually pretty good and inovative. That Nagant revolver was very innovative even to this day there is no revolvers that seals the gases like that. Also the Tokarev was ahead of its time especially with the modular components that we are only seeing in militarys now. THe Makarov was also ahead of its time being one of the first concealable semi autos like the Walthers.

[@trevorseeley9704]

Hey Ian, I am pretty sure I have a SA 1895. You said they were really rare (which I have also found on my own too). Would there be any way I could send it to you for you to check out and confirm/deny? Make videos of it if you choose, etc…

[@GeneralIkaika]

Gotta love how he deliberately said 'accidently shot' when talking about the Tokarev.

[@tonimartinez4419]

The Stechkin APS is missing there

[@Muhammadrashid-fj9zx]

Sir Please make a detail video on tt 33 or 30.

[@harryjoe860]

I really want to know what the pistol that almsot replaced the tokorev was

[@KaDaJxClonE]

Using Cyrillic letters to spell things in English must be super confusing for eastern Europeans. I can only imagine how long they try to decipher what nonsense is being offered to them before they realize it's just English.

[@petergasic7805]

It takes a second of peripheral cofusion seeing "ф" used an an "o", but it isn't too bad.

[@TrulyGodsGoofiest]

It's not really hard or confusing, it's just stupid lol.

[@ile2038]

Funny that ian said "let's get something we're noy going to shoot our own guys with" and processed to go toward the Markov

[@viceconsulimhotepienenobed1573]

Why isn't there an APS there ? Considered a PDW more than a PA (automatic pistol in french) ?

[@ForgottenWeapons]

It's a PDW.

[@viceconsulimhotepienenobed1573]

@@ForgottenWeapons thanks. Do you have a video on what a PDW is exactly ? I tend to consider it's not a real category (PDW are always SBR, SMG or PA)

[@ForgottenWeapons]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnvHp2iridl5gJo

[@andrewrife6253]

The nagant revolver has the absolute heaviest, worst trigger I've ever pulled. I've joked that the scene in enemy at the gates where the Russian officer is shooting soldiers jumping from the boat during the river crossing with a nagant is the least accurate part of the movie since the officer is easily pulling the trigger with any sort of accuracy.

[@wheelguns4wheelmen802]

Totally agree. But with practice you can get decent accuracy, especially with the 7.62 Nagant cartridge. I have a video on my channel of me shooting one six times from 40 yards landing like 3 or 4 shots on a standard sticky cartridge.

[@Deathunter761]

The tank friendly pistol was the Fedorov 1938. By looking at the picture it looks like the same concept as with the Walther P38 : the spring is held in the grip and the rear protrusion is longer. I don't think it's tilting barrel, it's likely a linear recoil like the Walther (could be a rotating barrel).

[@danielwordsworth1843]

Sad Stechkin is so rarely mentioned, its the most interesting of them all! tho, it was made for PDW role rather than carry pistol

[@tedmichas7709]

Wish i could find an nkvd version of the nagant

[@mfree80286]

Until I read or find evidence otherwise, I still think the main reason for the Nagant's moving cylinder is to make it resistant to minor timing issues. Pushing the rim of the cartridge directly into the forcing cone will align everything about as perfectly as it could ever be expected to be, and if it doesn't line up well enough it simply won't function instead of shaving, spitting, or damaging the cone or frame.

[@TiocfaidhArLa34]

yeah and way later on they found that suppressors work great on them lol.

[@alangordon3283]

Another excellent festive sermon from the Saviour Gun Jesus.

[@robinmickelsson-htta3413]

Great video and thank you for not normalizing flagging like Scott did in his latest video.

[@madmit2007]

I could be wrong but that Nagant is the only revolver which was silenced, and it makes sense.

[@joeinmi8671]

I even had a ND with a TT. Luckily no harm or damage was done because your firearm should always be pointed in a safe direction.

[@tedmichas7709]

Thought the 9mm mak round is close to the 9 mm ultra the walter super

[@stanislav_skorobogatov]

PM is not quite "Pistol Makarovna", but I appreciate the effort