The Makarov is notable for the safety elements of its design, with a safety that simultaneously blocks the hammer from contacting the firing pin and returns the weapon to the long-trigger-pull mode of double action when that safety is engaged. Designer Makarov thought the firing pin of insufficient mass to constitute a major danger. This allows for the possibility of accidentally firing if the pistol is dropped on its muzzle. The PM has a free-floating firing pin, with no firing pin spring or firing pin block. The US firm HiPoint currently manufactures large, heavy blowback pistols in even more powerful chamberings, including the. The Astra 600, chambered for 9mm Parabellum is a much older blowback pistol design than the Makarov, and fired a much more powerful cartridge. Other, more powerful cartridges have been used in blowback pistol designs, but the Makarov is widely regarded as particularly well balanced in its design elements.
The PM is heavy for its size by modern US commercial handgun standards, largely because in a blowback pistol the heavy slide provides greater inertia to delay opening of the breech until internal pressures have fallen to a safe level. The 9x18mm cartridge is a practical cartridge in blowback-operated pistols producing a respectable level of energy from a gun of moderate weight and size. Blowback designs are simple and more accurate than designs using a recoiling, tilting, or articulated barrel, but they are limited practically by the weight of the slide. In blowback designs, the only force holding the slide closed is that of the recoil spring upon firing, the barrel and slide do not have to unlock, as do locked-breech design pistols. The Pistol Makarova ( PM) is a medium-size, straight blowback action, frame-fixed barrel handgun. China and North Korea also use Makarov PMs. The Makarov PM is still the service pistol of many Eastern European and former Soviet Republics. Since 2003, the Makarov PM was formally replaced by the Yarygin PYa pistol in Russian service, although as of 2011 large numbers of Makarov PMs are still in Russian Military and Police service. In the U.S., surplus Soviet and East German military Makarovs are considered Curio & Relic eligible items by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, because the countries of manufacture, the U.S.S.R. Today, the Makarov is a popular handgun for concealed carry in the United States variants of the pistol remain in production in Russia, China, and Bulgaria. It remained in wide front line service with Soviet military and police until the end of the U.S.S.R. In 1951, the Pistol of Makarov (PM) was selected because of its simplicity (few moving parts), economy, easy manufacturing, and reasonable stopping power. Consequently, Soviet ammunition was unusable in NATO firearms, and in the event of war NATO forces would be unable to use ammunition from Soviet sources. Although the nominal calibre was 9.0mm, the actual bullet was 9.22mm in diameter, being shorter and wider and thus incompatible with pistols chambered for 9x19mm Parabellum cartridges. For simplicity and economy, the Makarov pistol - which was principally a scaled-up Walther PP - was of straight blowback operation, with the 9x18mm cartridge being the most powerful cartridge it could safely fire. Walther's cartridge became the 9x18mm Makarov. for the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War. Rather than building a pistol to an existing cartridge in the Soviet inventory, Nikolai Makarov utilized essentially the "9mm Ultra" cartridge which had been designed by Carl Walther G.m.b.H. The Makarov pistol resulted from a design competition for replacing the Tokarev TT-33 semi-automatic pistol and the Nagant M1895 revolver. Under the project leadership of Nikolay Fyodorovich Makarov, it became the Soviet Union's standard military side arm from 1951-1991. The PM ( Pistolet Makarova, Russian: Пистолет Макарова) is a semi-automatic pistol design. Izhevsk Mechanical Plant (USSR/Russia), Ernst Thaelmann / Simson (Suhl) (Germany), Arsenal (Bulgaria), Norinco (China)Ĩ-round detachable box magazine (10- and 12-round available on some special Russian models)īlade front, notch rear (drift adjustable) For other uses, see Makarov (disambiguation).
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