Tokarev Ammo Questions

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JNeilWix

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I know that milsurp Tokarev ammo has a reputation for being hotter than modern factory loads. I have a couple of questions about that? Does that apply to all milsurp? If not, which is hotter? I'm primarily wondering about Bulgarian vs. Romanian, but if you know something about other countries of origin that would be interesting, please chime in.

Part 2 of the question: Are there any milsurp guns chambered in Tokarev that would be considered unsafe with the hotter ammo?

Part 3: Is it reasonable or safe to seek to create handloads to replicate the hotter milsurp loads? Is there commercially available data for that? Or would I be required to move into experimentation to try and do that? (Note that I don't really want to be outside the area of "documented as reasonable safe practices.")
 
At least one of my reloading manuals....
I think Sierra (will check tonight ) has a little page on the difference in guns and 7.62x25 ammo. Well not much about the milsurp ammo but about loads in certain guns ad I recall.
 
Cool. I just ordered my dies. I scored 100 rounds of new Starline brass for a song. I love shooting my Polish Tokarev but only have 300 rounds of Milsurp left and didn't want to buy commercial ( but glad they make! )
 
Chrono a few of the "hot" factory loads, and work up incrementally to that velocity with a fairly slow powder?

Already lots of good threads here on THR regarding this endeavor...

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=708824

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=759865

You might especially look at the bottom paragraph of post #7
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=658636

...and more

Tokarev is a caliber I'd like to play with - once I get another job. I like the little Eurpoean pistols, and I like reloading...

Bill
 
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