I grabbed onto one of the latter, and it’s the one I currently shoot. Most of these have been Bulgarian and East German variants, both good, and a limited number (in original configuration) have been Russian. Shooters now feel the same thanks to the Makarov being imported in some numbers. In one version of the drill I had to fire over my head while on my back in another, forward while on my back.My almost 40 years of contact with the Makarov have made me a fan of the pistol. I had fired a double-tap from each position, and as I repeated the drill a couple of times, I actually got faster and managed center-mass hits. This included the Spetsnaz “ground training,” which involved a drill where I started from prone then engaged, rolled onto my right side then engaged, rolled onto my back then engaged, and rolled onto my left side then engaged, all at 7 meters. I was put through Makarov close-combat drills by a former Spetsnaz I was working with. But the high point of my “in the day” Makarov experiences occurred when I was in Russia. Along with the Tokarev TT-33, the Browning P-35 and various other weapons, I taught my trainees to disarm their attackers and quickly turn the weapons against them.
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.
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