A Bulgarian Makarov and a Polish P-64. I once openly carried my Romanian Tokarev with compensator, hammer at half-cock on a loaded chamber. I've practiced the motion of cocking the hammer as I release the retaining strap on the holster, though I'd also be willing to carry it locked and cocked.
I just read this thread in it's entirety, and noticed a lot of people carrying Tokarevs, which surprised me.
The more I look at my Tokarevs, a beautiful Polish Wz-48 (or "M48") and a beater Romanian TTC w/ a Polish slide that replaced the crummy Romanian one, the more I become convinced of something.
That half cock notch is secure as heck, far more than the vandalizations we call import safeties. Once that thing is engaged, neither the slide nor hammer is going
anywhere until you manually pull that hammer back. The only real possibility of a ND...and I'll admit it's a daunting one...is if you let the hammer slip.
Otherwise, I mean you could beat on that thing all afternoon before it fails. You could throw it on the ground as hard as you want and that hammer will not budge. I've read numerous admonitions on various forums to never, ever carry a Browning design like a 1911 or Tokarev at half cock, but the Tokarev isn't
really a Browning design, more like a combination improvement/rip off with a
far beefier half-cock notch. It's way beefier than the half-cock on my 1911 (IMO a far superior carry gun.)
Wasn't there some thread on here where someone tested this very thing with a two by four ?