Comments by "R" (@rdrrr) on "Vintage Weapons In a Modern War: The TT-33 Pistol In Ukraine" video.

  1. That was a Vickers gun chambered in .303 Brit. The gun and the round were obsolete and the testers were told to shoot the entire supply. 1 millions rounds later and the Vickers was perfectly functional - still in spec, even! There was a mountain of heaped brass by the Vickers, too. Imagine 1 million spent casings...
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  2.  @kanrakucheese  One of the reasons the TT-33 was replaced by the PM is conscripts had a tendency to ND when reholstering SAO + no safety + conscription-based army = 💀
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  3. Sleeping with a single action pistol with no mechanical safety. Spicy.
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  4. ​ @ericmckinley7985 Does it use two swinging links to tilt the barrel, or just one?
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  5.  @corvoattano4777  Double-to-single action pistols like the Makarov (PM) are also safer to operate. Cheap in Russia, but maybe not cheap if you are from former Yugo. M57 is everywhere, I don't think SFRJ ever made a Makarov copy.
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  6.  @corvoattano4777  Haha okay I won't try and guess, Asia's a big continent 😅
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  7. Nah, the 1911 is a real pain to field strip and clean. Fiddly, easy to lose small parts. And the swinging link locking the barrel is very old-school, modern Browning designs do away with it as it's a potential point of failure. The 1911 remains a fine handgun but time marches on and there are better options. But then I prefer the M9 to the M17 so I can see where you're coming from.
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