YoungMilsurpGuy
Sharpshooter
Well, a friend of mine is looking for a first handgun as a "car gun" and that got me thinking about cheap guns.
I have always enjoyed the Tokarev system since about 5 years ago at the ripe age of 18 I got a beat up old Romanian Tokarev where I replaced half the springs and firing pin on it, removed the safety and did a bit of polishing of the feed ramps.
What Im wondering is how well would the Zastava m88a work as a starting peice to make a Zastava "Komandirski" style pistol. I shot my buddy's dads gun that is his glove box piece and while it was about 2 inches left and 4 inches high at 12 yards and had about a 10 pound trigger pull, it shot a quarter sized group. (Don't ask me why, but I tend to shoot ****ty guns better, like when I shot a one ragged hole group with my friends Taurus TCP he thought was broken, or with my bulgarian makarov or with a Taurus Curve my friend was reviewing, it actually point shoots very well if you do the old ww2 applegate method, its probalby something with a crap gun I really knuckle down and focus on the fundamentals)
Is there a way to remove the sights and replace them? How much does the trigger improve with the magazine disconnect removed? Is there any manuals on how to polish up tokarev sears (I will not go at it with a Dremel, just a bit of jewelers polish and cloth and some elbow grease) Do they take standard Tokarev grips? (I prefer thin checkered wood grips on my guns both to carry and for feel and looks).
And finally would cerakoting be the way to go or is there another tougher finish to use for something that will probably be abused or left under a car seat or something. I would not want anything fancy, just a matte black or deep blue coloration.
I have always enjoyed the Tokarev system since about 5 years ago at the ripe age of 18 I got a beat up old Romanian Tokarev where I replaced half the springs and firing pin on it, removed the safety and did a bit of polishing of the feed ramps.
What Im wondering is how well would the Zastava m88a work as a starting peice to make a Zastava "Komandirski" style pistol. I shot my buddy's dads gun that is his glove box piece and while it was about 2 inches left and 4 inches high at 12 yards and had about a 10 pound trigger pull, it shot a quarter sized group. (Don't ask me why, but I tend to shoot ****ty guns better, like when I shot a one ragged hole group with my friends Taurus TCP he thought was broken, or with my bulgarian makarov or with a Taurus Curve my friend was reviewing, it actually point shoots very well if you do the old ww2 applegate method, its probalby something with a crap gun I really knuckle down and focus on the fundamentals)
Is there a way to remove the sights and replace them? How much does the trigger improve with the magazine disconnect removed? Is there any manuals on how to polish up tokarev sears (I will not go at it with a Dremel, just a bit of jewelers polish and cloth and some elbow grease) Do they take standard Tokarev grips? (I prefer thin checkered wood grips on my guns both to carry and for feel and looks).
And finally would cerakoting be the way to go or is there another tougher finish to use for something that will probably be abused or left under a car seat or something. I would not want anything fancy, just a matte black or deep blue coloration.
