unissued Makarov my $0.02

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The popularity of Maks seems to be picking up.

Here is my take on the "unissued" thing.


Don't take this as a criticisim or a anything of the kind.

I love my Maks for lots of reasons. I still think they are one of the best, if not the best, handgun value out their at the moment.

I have two "Unissued Circle 10" Makarovs.

It occured to me the other day. I wonder if the reason these remarkable like pistols are "unissued" is because they could be culls. Both of mine have slight imperfections, none of which affect reliability or safety. These minor imperfections could simply be attributed to manufacturing tolerances. Safety is very stiff, but managable. Trigger pull is very inconsistent, sear and hammer move considerably in the frame holes. Little things like that.

With all of that said, Once I determined the proper sight picture these things are phenomenally accurate and reliable.
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I think you bring up a great point, and one that needs to be adressed by the milsurp gun buying community.

We all ASSUME that the milsurp stuff we are getting is great stuff, but it seems like I've seen a lot of crap offered lately. I think that companies are starting to take old beaters and refinishing them in their shops and selling them as "arsenal refinished". Century Arms likes to let their "wizards" improve the beat up guns they get stuck with. Why not others? The current crop of CZ 52s comes to mind. And the current east german Maks I've seen appeared to be "arsenal refinished" also. I think a lot of the FTF complaints concerning the current east german Maks could be caused by them being "culls", old beat up guns made to look new, or parts guns that weren't put together properly.

Personally, I think some general gets ahold of a bunch of stored guns and sells them off on the black market. That's what I think these Bulgarian Maks are. I think there were too many of them to be culls.

FWIW, my Bulgarian commercial Mak is just as good as my milsurp bulgie and east german guns.
 
My milsurp Circle 10 is one of a batch of 50,000 found in a Bulgarian warehouse, if they are all culls, the Bulgarians have, or rather, had, major QC issues.

Inconsistent trigger pulls, patchy finishes, and trigger groups that kink out of alignment when the trigger is pulled in DA are all part of the inconsistencies of the deal.

I paid $140 cash and got $400 value, but it was carefully chosen from a batch of 8 puppies, amongst which there were a couple of muts.

Now that's rare, and unfortunately, so are Maks these days.

Mike H
 
Remember that all of Eastern Europe armed to the teeth in preparation for "the big one" when the USSR gave the word. They made enough weapons for all their regular forces, reserves and the millions of draftees they expected to call up.

A funny thing happened on the way to WWIII, and a lot of those arms are now being sold on the U.S. and world market. I doubt that many, if any, are rejects. It is more likely that details that did not affect functioning were simply ignored in the arms race.

Jim
 
I currently own two East German and a Russian .380 Mak and mine are sweet weapons and there is nothing second rate or shoddy about any of them. I have never seen a Bulgarian Mak that approached the quality of fit, finish and trigger pull of an East German Mak...

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