Texas Star
US Veteran
I need to arm two punks who hold up a gas station/convenience store in a novel that I'm writing.
Given their ethnicity and cultural backgrounds, I think they'll be well described as using a stainless Taurus 9mm and a Chinese Tokarev, nickled, in 9mm, also.
Am I correct in recalling that some importers have brought in Chinese-made commercial Tokarevs in 9X19?
Oh: you may be intrigued to learn that the hero detective who kills them uses a S&W M-66 with four-inch barrel and Pachmayr Presentation grips, with Federal .357 Hydra-Shok 158 grain JHP ammo. He's a traditionalist who clings to revolvers, although the force to which he belongs uses mostly SIG 9mm and .357 SIG autos. (As it does in real life.) However, some revolvers are still authorized, and a few cops carry them.
Not sure of his holster yet. Probably something from El Paso Saddlery. Maybe an old Gaylord.
Anyway, if any of you guys knows for sure if the commercial Chinese Toks came in 9mm, please holler.
Thanks,
T-Star
P.S. Random thought: I hope to make that gunfight as good as the one in, Spiral, where David Lindsey's Houston homicide detective Stuart Haydon killed the Mexican who had just murdered his partner. That is the best, most plausible, gunfight that I've ever seen in print. You really ought to find that book, if you like a superior police novel that isn't wholly action-dependent. Many libraries stock his books, and your bookseller can order them. I think most are still in print.
Given their ethnicity and cultural backgrounds, I think they'll be well described as using a stainless Taurus 9mm and a Chinese Tokarev, nickled, in 9mm, also.
Am I correct in recalling that some importers have brought in Chinese-made commercial Tokarevs in 9X19?
Oh: you may be intrigued to learn that the hero detective who kills them uses a S&W M-66 with four-inch barrel and Pachmayr Presentation grips, with Federal .357 Hydra-Shok 158 grain JHP ammo. He's a traditionalist who clings to revolvers, although the force to which he belongs uses mostly SIG 9mm and .357 SIG autos. (As it does in real life.) However, some revolvers are still authorized, and a few cops carry them.
Not sure of his holster yet. Probably something from El Paso Saddlery. Maybe an old Gaylord.
Anyway, if any of you guys knows for sure if the commercial Chinese Toks came in 9mm, please holler.
Thanks,
T-Star
P.S. Random thought: I hope to make that gunfight as good as the one in, Spiral, where David Lindsey's Houston homicide detective Stuart Haydon killed the Mexican who had just murdered his partner. That is the best, most plausible, gunfight that I've ever seen in print. You really ought to find that book, if you like a superior police novel that isn't wholly action-dependent. Many libraries stock his books, and your bookseller can order them. I think most are still in print.
