Whats the s/k/inny on these? $350 for a .357 revolver that ISNT a Taurus sounds pretty good. I know Zastava AKs are pretty well made, so i imagine these are made in kindBut surely theres a catch…
>>62745136>$350Not half bad, even if if sucks for a revolver thats on the cheaper side
>>62745136Christ, these things look rough as hell.You'd probably be better off with a used S&W or a Ruger.
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>>62745269>>62745260How are these? I used to want one but ended up with a smith and a ruger
>>62745136The catch is you have to buy it from sweaty Ben the jew. I was tempted by it too, but unless the appeal is it being kind of unique and different I don’t see how it’s better than a new Taurus for about the same price.
>>62745501Does it have like a specially designed trigger or some new mechanical fandangle? Or is it just their iteration of a run of the mill da/sa revolver?
>>62745136I thought about it, but it not being C&R and from that site, has made just ignore them.
>>62745518I don’t think so but honestly I don’t know much about it. I couldn’t find anything that made it special. Just a run of the mill revolver.
>>62745136It isn't Russian so it isn't dogshit but it isn't Ukrainian so it isn't good.
>>62745531I might take a gamble on it, im in the market for a k frame equivalent anyway if thats the size of it
I had to look that up to make sure it's a real gun, because it looks like a video game model. I wouldn't risk buying it when $350 can get you some halfway decent guns from established manufacturers.
>>62745136I tried one out at a cabela's and the DA trigger was HEAVY. Heaviest DA I've felt.SA felt ok.That's the sum of my knowledge.
I have one, purchased on gunbroker some time before 2018. Only bought it cause I collect every blued 4" adjustable sight revolver in .357 that is mechanically unique. On the Zastava, the front sight is drift adjustable so good enough for me.First, DA trigger is HEAVY, like the only heavier I've felt is on a 1895 Nagant. IIRC, the lockwork is unique, not a copy of anything else. Coil mainspring. It was extremely difficult to get the screws removed from the sideplate and they're like a weird decorative 3-slotted flathead design so no easy replacements if you fuck them up. To make the DA trigger acceptable, I swapped a standard strength GP100 spring in. After this, it's smooth with a little stacking. The cylinder is plum on mine. Locks up like a worn in Smith so not bank vault tight. The bolt is extremely thin as you can see from the thin slots on the cylinder. I also added a Tyler T-Grip from a k-frame (I think) to get a better grip as I couldn't find any Target style grips in real wood.Honestly if you don't collect .357's, look for something else. NO parts available, and no real benefit over a used Smith.IIRC these were all produced in 1992 and 1993 during the war (at least the imported ones I've seen) and can have different markings like 83/92 or 83/93. Going on memory but I'm sure there's more info out there on forums and such.
>>62745986Interesting. Thanks for the info anon
>>62745986Did you try any speedloaders or grips or anything like that?
>>62745136It is 2025 -1, Taurus is unironically G2G.>>62745260Always heard these were acceptable, if a little rough.
>>62745986you know what else happened in 1992?
>>62745299I had picrel about 20yrs ago. It wasn't the highest QC, rough edges and machined surfaces, rubber grip had a tendency to slip off before I glued it on. But it went bang every time. Back then, they were like $250-300 new. No idea what they are actually going for these days.
>>62745269>>62747510>those tabs
>>62745299Shit, forgot to check em. Picrel>>62746247See >>62747510Side note, I don't recommend a .357 snubby in a low light or close quarter environment. Might as well have a flash bang go off at eye level.
>>62747533Don't judge me, I have a midget fetish, chkd
>>62746241Grips are unique, as far as I can tell. The screw runs through a hole in the grip frame, and the locating pin is in a different spot. It's possible some Smith or Taurus grips could be adapted but definitely not drop-in.Dan Wesson HKS speedloaders (3A) work fine as well as SL Variant K-Frame & L-Frame, which are fairly flexible and tunable, (my favorite speedloaders, though expensive). Couldn't find my HKS K- or L-frame speedloaders to test. Chamber spacing seems to be closest to Dan Wesson.
>>62745584>From an established manufacturer Zastava has been making guns for almost 200 years
>>62745136look im gonna be real with you, the yugo zastava m88 i own is hands down the worst gun i own. its worse than a jiminez. the metal quality and the manufacturing is just completely sub-par and the gun has battered its own barrel locking lugs into non-functionality. people talk about the zastava rifles being good but from first-hand experience the guns are absolutely not worth owning even at half the price people sell them for. i would not buy a zastava tokarev for any more than $100 and i am not fucking with youlike a year ago i was at a gun store looking at a brand new (brand fucking new) zastava m57 pistol and the slide stop had pushed into the slide and deformed the slide. you could not press the slide release down with the magazine in the gun. it was gone the next time i went in.taurus might be made by a bunch of jungle jiggaboos that can't get their shit together but i at least consider my tauruses to be functional guns. they are mediocre but they work. i havent had the priveledge of ever running into a zastava with that distinction
>>62745269>>62745299oh holy shit i ran into one of those at a gun show and was looking at it with absolute disgust as the woman behind the counter started going off about how it was her favorite gunfive hundred fucking dollars for that piece of shit? good lord. maybe it works great, i dunno, but the finish was worse than a charter arms revolver on this one. the one i was looking at was $350. i know taurus is shit but you can get a model 66 for like $450, like there is no universe where you should be paying that much money for a gun made entirely of injection molded parts when you can buy guns with properly machined barrels and frames for less
>>62745269there's something really egregious about how ugly these guns are. like its not a utilitarian ugliness, they specifically went out of their way to add the faux ribbing. there are cheap dogshit guns with real ribbing. why fake it, especially when it looks like shit?
>>62745518Seems like it's kind of just a slavshit Smith clone. Still better than a Taurus.
>>62746390Jurassic Park?
>>62747537it's more you use jewgle in 2024
>>62749445the phoenix arms hp22 is actually a pretty gud gun once you disable 2 of the safeties
>>62749372I have had nothing but amazing experiences with zastavas. The Yugoslav SKS I own is probably the best quality rifle I have save for a K31 or my AR-15. My tokarev doesnt stop working and my only issues with it are from importers putting a manual safety on it and accuracy (who wouldve thought 50 year old shitty ammo would be shit)
>>62751153i think there are probably good years and bad years, the guns have a good reputation so unless thats all coping most of them were probably fine. mine is definitely from the yugoslav wars era and its fucking shit. perhaps the guns made during the periods of relative stability in yugoslavia were good but i can say with certainty the ones from the early 90s are most certainly sub par and the current new productions don't instill me with any confidence because they have the market cornered and they know the bar for new repros is very low
>>62750780its actually pretty good gun yeah but its still a $120 zinc rimfire pistol with chamber limitations. but its a fine example of why ribbing is based and fake ribbing is very gay
>>62745260>>62745269>>62747510What porn you watching. This directly effects how much I accept your opinion.
