Can you sound suppress a revolver?

[PALADIN85020]

Kennyb: I've called that long firing pin "The witch's claw" in an article I just finished on the Nagant revolver. It has to be long to reach through the frame to the cartridge, which is pushed forward along with the cylinder. I purposely used a photo of the cocked gun to show it. And it does look weird, for sure!

 

[ecam8000]

If it were taken out to the forest where the tree falls and no one hears........

 

[Crazy K38]

then the tree would run like hell from that mean looking firing pin

 

[Gutpile Charlie]

I've had one for over ten years now. I also have one box of ammo for it, but have never fired it.

Yes, it is very interesting, but it certainly isn't very practical.

 

[haggis]

I have a 1939 Tula Nagant I purchased at a flea market about 25 years ago. Some sort of bringback from somewhere. After finding some ammunition for it at the OGCA, I was a bit surprised that the cartridges dropped mostly through the cylinder. Upon closer inspection, I found the gun had been rechambered to 7.62 Tokarev.

Considering the thin chamber walls and the pressure of the Tok round, someone would have had to be in desperate need of a weapon to have used this one. I have heard of other examples (Fred Datig mentioned them in the Gun Collectors Digest), but no one seems to know when or where the work was done. It was probably done sometime in the distant past, and it was done crudely.

While some folks who have examined these guns favor Viet Cong or North Korean modification, most of the consensus leans toward the siege of Leningrad. They had plenty of 7.62 Tok ammo, but were desperate for weapons. And you'd have to be in mortal danger to use these revolvers.

If anyone has heard anything else about these, I'd like to know. One thing, these are not US "gunsmith" conversions which happened after the Russian revolvers were mass imported. The people that did that should be forced to shoot their own creations!


Buck