Ya Commie bastitch…
On display at the West Point Museum is a Chinese Type 54 pistol with a difference. A difference that I heartily approve of! The description:
People’s Republic of China Type 54 Pistol
Caliber 7.62 mm
The Type 54 pistol is actually an exact copy, except for markings, of the Soviet TT-33 introduced in 1933. This model has also been produced by most of the Warsaw Pact Nations and so was very commonly used by the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong.
Those pistols made specifically for export by communist China were marked only “M20” to disguise their origin. This M20 pistol was struck by a U.S. 5.56mm rifle bullet at Phuoc Loc, South Vietnam on 3 December 1967 and found next to the body of a Viet Cong officer.
Note that the rifle bullet didn’t just dent the barrel of this pistol, it punched straight through it.
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I would think it was more likely a 7.62 round… but then again I don’t know what kind of pot metal the Chinese might have made their pistols from.
They actually do a damned fine job making military firearms – garbage product for export don’t get much QC, but they’re pretty anal-retentive about stuff they hand to their military. I own a number of Chinese military weapons, and they have something in common with Polish and Bulgarian weapons of the era – they tend to be copies of Soviet designs, with substantially superior fit and finish. I own a Chinese type 54, and of all the TT pistols I’ve owned, handled or fired, it has the best fit and finish and the smoothest action. The bore and chamber dimensions mic almost perfectly to specification – for comparison, one of my Romanian TT pistols has a bore that mics at .313. Surplus combloc ammo is almost universally .306-.308.