I have always found the Russian Tokarev to be an intesting looking pistol, and have long been interested in owning one. Well, when I found a place selling Romanian ones for 200 bucks with a spare magazine, I knew I was finally gonna own one. Today, it arrived in the mail, (you gotta love the C&R!) and I have to say that my interest in it was well placed. It is a quite interesting pistol, fits my hand well, and I can't wait to start experimenting with handloads for it.
The only "drawback" I can say it has is how the lanyard loop presses into the heel of my hand and the safety digs into my index finger when held left handed. As such, I may have to shoot this pistol with my weak hand. But since I am sorta ambidextrous, that's not really a big deal.
Now all I gotta do is get one of those semi auto reproductions of the PPSh-41, and I'll have another "alternative" to the Thompson/1911.
Heh, still haven't gone to my first AZSA match and I'm already getting extra guns for it. And I thought SASS was bad....