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Nam 67 Welcome to the board! If you can we'd love to see photos!


M2 I alway get a kick out of seeing those images...... well done!


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Your a brave man M2carbine! Those are neat pics of your test but the second one with the mud around the hammer is hard to look at. I know these pistols were designed for combat conditions, but I couldn't do that to one of mine. There wasn't any mud in the barrel?

 

I have been successful in getting a Mak to fail by loading 95g bullets down to below 650fps - with a 21# recoil spring it will usually fail to lock open on the last round, and will sometimes fail to feed the next round from the magazine (although it's perfectly reliable on both counts with the regular recoil spring.)

Other than that, it's just bang, bang, bang . . . Boooorrrrring.

 

A while back I took a new Bulgarian Makarov and tried to make it malfunction.
Sank it in mud, froze it, left the gun and loaded magazine in water, filled the inside with lint and hair and other junk and did a handful of other "tests".

The closest the gun came to malfunctioning was when the mud blocked the hammer from hitting the firing pin, but it fired on the second trigger pull.

The test was a thousand rounds and the gun still hasn't had the first gun caused malfunction.

 

Big Bear claimed 1000, but members here have reported serial numbers higher than that. I once owned 004. Looks like maybe 2k came in.

Value? Most are reportedly bought for under $200 by the unknowing. Have seen them sell for $300 to Makanados. Bummer that a commemorative is in the wrong freakin' caliber compared to the original.

SlimTim

 

40th anniversary Mak

Just bought one of these Saturday. Rubber wrap grips, 95% plus, 1 x mag, no box, shoots like a dream. Understand only 1100 imported? If so, what is a swag on value? I think I got a real good deal.

 

I tried my Big Bear Mak with some ancient Norinco green box ammo(left from owning a Mak years ago).

A monotonous shooting session, as the IJ70 refused to jam, and shoots perfectly to point of aim. Shoots just as well as an identical IJ70 I owned in the 1990's.

 

A monotonous shooting session, as the IJ70 refused to jam, and shoots perfectly to point of aim. Shoots just as well as an identical IJ70 I owned in the 1990's.

I know, I hate those boring, "nothing goes wrong" range sessions too. They always seem to happen when I take the Maks..

 

My 1st post and the answer is yes. So far it is my only Mak. IZH-70. Marked "40 Years of Makarov Pistol 1993. I continue to hunt for a 9x18. Thanks for all the good info I get off this forum.

 

Wasn't Big Bear also the importer/maker of the "40th Anniversary" Makarovs?

 

BIG BEAR also imported the TIGR SVD, and quite a few other firearms, not just MAKAROVs.

 

The apparently imported many Russian firearms in the early to late 90s. I have a .380 commericial Russian Big Bear Mak as well.

A google search seems to indicate that they are still in business - in Carrollton, Texas.