I became most familiar with the PM when I included it among the weapons I used in the “Surviving in Dangerous Places Training” I used to give. Over the next decade or so I had access to Makarovs in my travels and even carried one a couple of times. The ammo was corrosive, so I made sure to clean the immaculate pistol with lots of hot water followed by GI bore cleaner and plenty of oil. I managed to track down some 9x18mm ammunition, and when I visited him we fired it. The first one I shot was in the mid 1970s, a Chinese example a friend had captured in Laos. My experience with the Makarov pistol (also known as the “PM,” or Pistolet Makarova) goes back further than the lives of many Americans. The marking indicates this PM is Russian-made. Safety is positioned down to fire a round.
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