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Model12Win

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Any of you fellers have a Polish P64? Just bought one from Southern Ohio Gun Works. Advertised as "excellent/like new" and comes with a holster and two mags. I have fired one before and noticed the recoil to be sharp. I also own several Bulgarian Makarovs so wanted a P64 so they wouldn't be left out.

What's the word on these little Polish pistols? Take care guys,

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They are very reliable and accurate guns. Double action pull is quite interesting :eek: and it can bite the web of your hand a bit but there's some mods you can do to reduce that.
Visit the P64 forum for grips, springs and other mods as well as tips and such.

They are a bit harsh for a little gun but nothing compared to some home grown 44 mag handloads can be.

I like the little gun but then I like my post war Walter PP too.
(And for some reason I like how my P38 shoots too)
 
I also have one, it's a well made handgun, especially compared to what people are subject to now days.
The only drawback is the ammo, if I remember correctly it's non standard.
 
I used to own one. I never got around to shooting it. The DA trigger is probably around 20 pounds(?).

I did change out the springs with a kit from Wolf. That reduced it to a more usable level, but I didn't have a trigger pull gauge to measure it.

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Good guns, all metal and most have very little wear. 9x18 is readily available on line, for decent prices. Mine work with hollow points and FMJ flawlessly. I picked up a nice set of wood grips for mine, works to increase the grip size a bit. I still have stock springs in mine, you can get a very light single action if you lower the DA pull too much. The heavy trigger pull doesn't bother me, it's not a target gun, wasn't meant to be. But they are still pretty accurate little guns. I love mine, part of my CCW rotation.
 
They are nice little pistols. As others have stated, install the Wolff springs, and you are good to go. Now, follow it up with a Polish P-83. :)
 
Curious. What's non-standard about it? Can it not feed any 9x18mm Makarov ammo?
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I am curious as well. I have no problems finding 9x18 at the gun stores around here and it is cheap online. Is the P64 not meant for certain loads?
 
Follow up

Follow it up with a CZ 82. Has the best DA trigger pull of any military semi.

All steel and 12 or 13 plus 1. My son still has his, I traded mine off for a nice outboard motor I needed. Be glad to have another but still have my old PA63 in 9X18.

Hell, I think Wally world sells 9X18 these days....maybe not but ammo is very available, dies too if you roll your own.

I rather like 9X18, it is rough on the web of my hand with the PA63, the wider grip of the CZ82 prevents that for me. A grip sleeve might help.

Good SD ammo is also available for 9X18. It's actually become a fairly "normal" round.
 
I already have a CZ-82, sweet little shooter. I wanted a P64 because it is Polish and they make good sausage and pickles. :) Just kidding, I just wanted one because it is kewl.
 
Yup

I do kinda regret trading off the CZ82. I stripped off the paint on the slide and cold blued what is now my sons pistol. The paint on the frame was excellent, and I was also warned that a full teardown of a CZ 82 is very ill advised. Thus I left it be and the two tone looks better than it did prior. Kinda cool actually.

I for one am a fan of the 9X18. Berry's has plated bullets and the dies were in stock so I do load for it. 9X18 has gotten pretty cheap in the last couple years.

Wish we could still get the surplus 7.62 X 25 for my CZ 52. Mine is pristine, I call it the pistol that thinks it's a rifle. Also heard it referred to the Russian icepick.

Love the rather odd styling of the CZ 52...kinda Buck Rogers,
 
It shoots regular 9x18 Mak, nothing special to feed it.
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I think HisSoldier is just confused about chamberings in calling 9x18mm Makarov "non-standard" versus (the more common in the US) 9x19mm Parabellum.

Of course we know 9x18mm Makarov is a standard military sidearm ammunition for much of the world (and is readily available in the US commercial market as well).
 
Thanks, gang. Should arrive at my dealers this Saturday according to the tracking number. I'm so excited!! :D

I plan to post pics and a range review very soon. :)
 
I had a couple for years. Very reliable and surprisingly accurate. You definitely need to change out both the mainspring (trigger) and the recoil spring. As to ammo, yes there is certain 9x18 ammo that doesn't do well. You can occasionally find 9x18 with 115 gr bullets. While those do OK in a full-sized pistol like the CZ-82 and Makarov, the little 9x18 pistols like the P-64 and the PA-63 don't do well with the heavy pills. Stick to the 94 gr stuff.
 
Absolutely nothing "non-standard" about 9X18 Makarov. Maybe not a common as 9X19, but very available. Hornady even offers Custom Shop XTP, and Critical Defense rounds.
But a possibility as to the non-standard comment, unlike the .355 bullet diameter of the 9X19 the Makarov round uses a .365 diameter bullet.
 
OK, by "Non Standard" I mean not as common as .380. That's all. The .380 is ubiquitous, and many outlets that sell pistol ammo don't sell the other kind. BTW, one of the reasons some people say their choice is 9X19 parabellum is because it is everywhere and cheap, a poor reason for me but maybe for others it's enough. Most of the cheap 9MM Mak is steel case, or berdan primed, or both, which for a reloader is a very good reason to not favor the cartridge.

I have a .380 Makorov, I bought it because I didn't want to buy special dies for the 9X18.
Had it been chambered 9X18 I wouldn't have bought it. I bought a P64 because it was extremely cheap, even with what I call a non standard chambering.

Lo these many years later and I still don't own dies for it, and probably never will, because to me the cartridge isn't superior enough over the .380 to justify it.
You're welcome to believe anything you like about ammo on every store shelf, maybe in twenty years it will be but I don't think so. Maybe in some other part of the country they are common, I don't know.
 
I have heard you can reload 9x18mm very easily with 9mm Luger brass and the proper diameter bullet. I don't know because I am not a reloader, but do know 9x18mm isn't expensive or hard to find.

BTW I got my P64 today. It is very beautiful and came with a nice holster but my safety lever started out quite stiff and in working it it scraped half the paint off the red safety dot! Thankfully the safety quickly broke in, don't think it was ever used much if at all, the gun is in great shape possible unfired.

I'll have to touch up the safety dot with some red paint but the gun looks to be a good one. I will have to say though the detail stripping is nowhere NEAR as straightforward as on my Bulgarian Makarovs! Took a while to get everything back together after the initial cleaning!
 
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