budman93
Ultimate Member
I just recently got 2 Yugo Tokarevs from SOG. I was pretty happy with them, though one is a little nicer than the other and the more worn one has a pitted barrel. They seemed in good shape and even the pitted one should still shoot well. But I just noticed that on the more worn one if you let the slide return full force without riding it back the hammer will drop and not stay cocked.
Initial troubleshooting:
Since I have 2 I can swap the parts back and forth. First thing I tried was the same thing with the other pistol and all seems fine, no hammer drop. Then I took the hammer group out of the malfunctioning pistol and put it in the good one, still no hammer drop. That made me think it was something with the trigger or something else on the malfunctioning gun, so I figured that the hammer group from the good pistol would probably also drop when put in the malfunctioning gun. But it doesn't. So both hammer groups seem fine in the good pistol, and the good pistols hammer group seems fine in the malfunctioning pistol. The bad hammer group only drops in the bad pistol.
This leaves me unsure of what the problem might be. I can return/exchange it with SOG for 30 days after receiving although I think I'm still on the hook for the original shipping and return shipping
. Before I contact them I wanted to get some input and find out if anyone else has had this problem. I'm not sure if it is a common Tokarev thing, some initial googling didn't turn up much.
EDIT: I should add that on both guns I have taken the crappy safeties out. So all testing was without them.
The hammer also drops when you lock the slide back and release it with the slide release.
EDIT 2: The hammer does catch on the half cock notch when it drops. So it doesn't look like it would fire but it does look like the hammer would need to be manually cocked for every shot.
Initial troubleshooting:
Since I have 2 I can swap the parts back and forth. First thing I tried was the same thing with the other pistol and all seems fine, no hammer drop. Then I took the hammer group out of the malfunctioning pistol and put it in the good one, still no hammer drop. That made me think it was something with the trigger or something else on the malfunctioning gun, so I figured that the hammer group from the good pistol would probably also drop when put in the malfunctioning gun. But it doesn't. So both hammer groups seem fine in the good pistol, and the good pistols hammer group seems fine in the malfunctioning pistol. The bad hammer group only drops in the bad pistol.
This leaves me unsure of what the problem might be. I can return/exchange it with SOG for 30 days after receiving although I think I'm still on the hook for the original shipping and return shipping
. Before I contact them I wanted to get some input and find out if anyone else has had this problem. I'm not sure if it is a common Tokarev thing, some initial googling didn't turn up much.EDIT: I should add that on both guns I have taken the crappy safeties out. So all testing was without them.
The hammer also drops when you lock the slide back and release it with the slide release.
EDIT 2: The hammer does catch on the half cock notch when it drops. So it doesn't look like it would fire but it does look like the hammer would need to be manually cocked for every shot.
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