{"id":54088,"date":"2022-05-10T05:24:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T10:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=54088"},"modified":"2022-05-10T05:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T10:24:50","slug":"know-your-guns-history-of-the-east-german-makarov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/10\/know-your-guns-history-of-the-east-german-makarov\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Guns: History of the East German Makarov"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HISTORY OF THE EAST GERMAN MAKAROV<\/a><\/h1>\n

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When I was hot and heavy into Curio and Relic collecting fifteen or so years back I had several different flavors of Makarov, including a true East German PM (with original DDR markings) a Polish P-64, A Hungarian FEG PA-63 and a very rare Bulgarian PPK clone.<\/h2>\n

As with all Eastern Block C&R Military pistols, the double action trigger on Mak’s were atrociously bad, somewhere between 15 and 25 pounds. This was a purposeful design however to keep peasant conscripts from shooting their own dicks off.<\/h2>\n

Other than that, they were a real pleasure to shoot with a caliber I would describe as a “.380 ACP on growth hormones”.<\/h2>\n

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