The Good:
The Bad:
- Adding an M57 to my collection (at a low C&R price years ago) to go with my Polish and Romy TT-33's.
- Adding an M70A chambered in 9mm to the family was a good addition. It satisfies my cravings for shooting a "Tok".
- None are highly accurate shooters, but all are fun.
The Ugly:
- None come out to play as often as they should.
- 7.62x25 is a fun round to shoot. But cheap milsurp ammo dried up years ago.
- The effing add-on safeties on the C&R pistols suck!
M57: The two I've shot had a heavy trigger pull.
Mine ain’t bad. I’d guess maybe 7lbs. Slightly heavier than SA on some of my better DA/SA pistols, but not terrible and it is smooth. Some take up and creep, but again, not terrible.
My yard stick for terrible is a P64.
The P64 is a great yardstick for terrible trigger pull (until the springs are changed)
Mine also shoots low (maybe 8 inches at 10 yards)... Don't remember L/R being bad. I'd be interested to see the end result of lazarus' efforts on repair/a modified sight.
Still fun gun to shoot.
DK Firearms used to have new and used mags available... They appear to be out of stock right now, but they say they are working with C&R holders again on the M57.
Been busy. Moved and other life stuff. I still plan to try at some point. I wrapped the barrel bushing in Teflon tape and it seems to have improved things a little. Group size shrunk about an inch and came up 1 or 2” also. Still way low as well as large groups. An improvement. A mightnight hold gets it close.
My plan is to get another rear sight and weld a bead across it, file a notch. See where that gets me. I may also get another front bushing and see what that does.
If it wasn’t for shooting so low, I love it.
I like mine, I have had the slide release when seating a magazine a few times.
Maybe I will do more to find a new (NOS?) barrel bushing first. Using Teflon tape to wrap my barrel bushing did change POI by a couple of inches. I doubt it is properly snug still. There’s a little slop between the barrel and the bushing and also the busing and the slide. Less on the former than the later.