I remember one of the other sales guys was demonstrating the Mak for a customer, flicked the safety on (or off, who remembers?) and tore a big chunk out of his thumb. They were brand new, but some examples were VERY rough. Included in the box were the standard sights.I imagine the idea was to make a cheap adjustable sight to satisfy import requirements, and the end-user can swap it out for the original sight.īack around 1996 or so, I worked in a gunshop, and we were selling tons of the Russian IJ-70 for between $99 & $125, for a year or more. Also, the Chinese version may not have had quite as smooth of a trigger.again, because they were brand new, and the EG guns had a lot of use, which smoothed them up.Īpparently, the Chinese were made to jump through some hoop that other nations were not.because these early Chinese pistols came with rather fragile, but usable, adjustable sights.

The early Chinese Makarovs that were imported into this country, I believe around 1987 or 1988, exhibited a level of fit and finish that was the equal of the EG Mak, except they were brand new, so they didn't have the relatively common holster wear that many of the EG have.

I would only buy an EG mak if looking to buy another. I contacted local police dept, gave them all the info, description, serial #'s etc. I 'had ' a Norinco brand Mak, The sights were pretty poorly made.

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