Assembled 1911A1 Pistol 7.62 x 25 mm North Vietnamese

A quick follow up video to show reliability issues arising from converting this pistol to accept a 7.62 x 25mm cartridge. This is a 1943 production Colt 1911A1 that was captured during the Vietnam War and converted by the North Vietnamese to accept the .30 Tokarev cartridge.

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Education

Tags:

• 1911
• pistol
• 1943
• World
• War
• II
• Colt
• Model
• 1911A1
• .45
• acp
• conversion
• .30
• Tokarev
• 7.62
• 25
• mm
• cartridge
• Soviet
• Union
• TT-33
• North
• Vietnamese
• Vietnam

[SacoreyRugger]

im always happy to hear that these kind of conversions were probably not reliable for the enemy

[MrColt45acp]

@SacoreyRugger Me too.  Thanks for watching!

[ammosmith]

Does that dent inhibit ejection? Have you shot it?

[MrColt45acp]

@ammosmith no, I have not shot it.

[Alexn1067]

@MrColt45acp how did it end up back in the states?

[leftthenormalworld]

@MrColt45acp If I was you, I don't know if I would shoot it. In fact, I know I don't want to shoot it. Magazine is allowed to rubble around, doesn't fit in all the way, magazine rubs the slide. I see bad things happening upon shooting that thing.  Why would they go through all that trouble anyway?

[dgr8zod]

Might be of interest.. I have a 1953 CZ-52 which is chambered for that round.. The mag has be pulled out of that weapon as well, as it has a tensioning spring on the back of the frame. It also has a slide bottom as the conversion has. TT mag maybe? Another reason for the conversion, was likely availability of ammo.. 7.62x25 is still all over that part of the world, with a hotter loading for machine guns.

[Mr420pot420]

@MrColt45acp could you ???

[1979aerocaprice]

i know it looks unsafe but i dont think that the magazine well being shaved down would make it dangerous to shoot. i figure if it was gonna blow up it would have whenever it was shot before. this is a very cool piece of history. i would love to see it fire.

[Marine17inlove]

Don't shoot it, ok? Firstly, modern .30 Tokarev was very high on pressure chamber, and I think not even standard .45 that this thing can handle. So probably, let's keep it as a gift from the communist.

[cocacolacompany1]

so boring

[762x51n8o]

Cool video. I read about this last year in Shotgun News