My new gun

[Rye Miles #13621]

 

 

This is a video of a Makarov like I just bought. I got a great deal on it. Looks just like this. Shoots great! Looks very well built.

 

Rye

[Red Hooker]

Neat li'l gun. My Dad had one before he passed away, now I have it. Before I started carrying my SASS Cimarron Lightnings, it was my carry gun with Cor-Bon ammo when my 1911 would have been too big- say, under summer clothes.

[Three Foot Johnson]

There's a Rooski Mak at a local pawn shop w/2 mags & holster for $300, and, although it appears to be unfired, that's more than I want to pay. It does seem to be about the going rate at the moment though.

[Utah Bob #35998]

There's a Rooski Mak at a local pawn shop w/2 mags & holster for $300, and, although it appears to be unfired, that's more than I want to pay. It does seem to be about the going rate at the moment though.

See if you can talk him down to $250.

[Cheyenne Culpepper 32827]

Rye, I have one tuu,,,, at least VERY similar....yup, good shooter...I only paid $125 for mine with original holster and two mags....

 

stay warm

 

CC

[Cpt Dan Blodgett, SASS #75655]

Bought my rooski Mac in 95. Got it for my sister, she had problems racking the slide. The Rooski does not have any where near the fit and finish of the bulgarian. But does shoot where aimed, if your eyes are good enough to see the tiny front sight. They are the poor mans PP Super.

[Cat Brules]

I bought 3 of these back in the mid-90's, all Russian Baikal-made, US import models (they had to have an adjustable rear sight). Two in .380acp (9x17mm)and one in 9mm Makarov (9x18mm). They came in the box with a holster, two magazines and a few other odds and ends. I sold one of the .380's for some reason, but still have the other .380 and the 9mmMak. I bought about 500 rounds of 9mm Makarov and six extra magazines at the same time. I still have most of the 9mmMak ammo. You may NOT interchange .380 for 9x18 in these guns, so don't do it. The magazines are interchangeable, though, as is everything else on the gun. There used to be available replacement .380 barrels for the guns, so you could change it out (of course, there's that pesky slide rollstamp, indicating the gun's caliber). Many of those barrels were sold longer than normal, with a threaded muzzle. They were only commonly available for a couple years. I also bought 3 Pearce one-piece rubber aftermarket grips for the guns. Those grips really improve the feel and handling of the gun over the stock plastic grips. Fit of the parts in my Russian guns is good and the blued finish is only fair.

 

Do not underestimate this little gun. It looks like a cheap knockoff of a Walther, but the internals are different and the guns are amazingly reliable/dependable. They chamber and shoot every time. I would trust these guns in a gunfight and in my opinion, that's hard to say about most new, out of the box guns today. The Makarov was (maybe still is) the Russian military sidearm. Being a military weapon, it will take considerable abuse and foreign material slopped in it and still function. Supposedly, the ones made in East Germany were the finest examples.

 

I think my import Russian guns are worth, at a gun shop today around here $350+ (the .380acp version, anyway). They are great little double action self-defense guns. The finer examples. made in the "european" Eastern Bloc countries, should be worth considerably more.

 

Cat Brules

[Rye Miles #13621]

I bought 3 of these back in the mid-90's, all Russian Baikal-made, US import models (they had to have an adjustable rear sight). Two in .380acp (9x17mm)and one in 9mm Makarov (9x18mm). They came in the box with a holster, two magazines and a few other odds and ends. I sold one of the .380's for some reason, but still have the other .380 and the 9mmMak. I bought about 500 rounds of 9mm Makarov and six extra magazines at the same time. I still have most of the 9mmMak ammo. You may NOT interchange .380 for 9x18 in these guns, so don't do it. The magazines are interchangeable, though, as is everything else on the gun. There used to be available replacement .380 barrels for the guns, so you could change it out (of course, there's that pesky slide rollstamp, indicating the gun's caliber). Many of those barrels were sold longer than normal, with a threaded muzzle. They were only commonly available for a couple years. I also bought 3 Pearce one-piece rubber aftermarket grips for the guns. Those grips really improve the feel and handling of the gun over the stock plastic grips. Fit of the parts in my Russian guns is good and the blued finish is only fair.

 

Do not underestimate this little gun. It looks like a cheap knockoff of a Walther, but the internals are different and the guns are amazingly reliable/dependable. They chamber and shoot every time. I would trust these guns in a gunfight and in my opinion, that's hard to say about most new, out of the box guns today. The Makarov was (maybe still is) the Russian military sidearm. Being a military weapon, it will take considerable abuse and foreign material slopped in it and still function. Supposedly, the ones made in East Germany were the finest examples.

 

I think my import Russian guns are worth, at a gun shop today around here $350+ (the .380acp version, anyway). They are great little double action self-defense guns. The finer examples. made in the "european" Eastern Bloc countries, should be worth considerably more.

 

Cat Brules

 

 

Cat, do you know where I can get an extra mag for this??

 

Much obliged, Rye

 

 

 

[Ned Lander]

Rye,

I have an East German Mak, and my son and I love shooting it. You might want to check EBAY for Mak stuff. I just saw some Mags on there today for both the .380 and the 9x18 barrels.

 

Ned

[Jake Stoner , SASS # 28994]

I love my Mak. A great little shooter that will eat anything you feed it. I have shot FMJ,

RNL, Flat point, Hollow points through mine and never a hickup. Just a no frills

great gun. :D/>