Russian Captured and Dipped

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This educational video takes a look at the Russian captured P.38 pistols from WW2. Tom covers how to identify them and also the pro's and con's for purchasing. When they first were imported into the US they sold in the $450 to $500 range. Today, Russian dipped or Russian marked pistols are approaching $1k each for standard models. They are much higher for Russian guns like the Police Eagle L variation which is featured in this video.
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@sambone8213 3 ай бұрын

When I got into the hobby around 2008, I was buying up Russian Capture guns left and right. I thought the history was interesting and they were a fraction of the price. People on the forums loathed them and said they would never be worth two nickels. Time has not been kind to that viewpoint. Nice to see a video on the subject. Many saw service in east Germany which I think would be a great follow-up video.

@cbroz7492 3 ай бұрын

..ajefelt the capture guns had a unique provenance about them..especially considering that they were squirreled away for a future war, then sold to buy food..

@HDSME 3 ай бұрын

It is very I threshing but hillory banned imports

@GreetingsandSalutations4007 3 ай бұрын

Yeah I abandoned the forums when people said Russian Captures were only good for parting out. Screw those elitist jerks

@MyWillypilly 2 ай бұрын

I remember that viewpoint, because of the import markd. Demand changed that

@HDSME 2 ай бұрын

I hate her for that they should her from being with young. Woman

@toddbraddock236 3 ай бұрын

Excellent video Tom, I have a BYF44 p-38 that is mint, and I wondered if it was a russian dip, but it has the red and white, safety paint, no x, and no import marks, and the grips are correct and messed with. This video helped me to confirm my gun in indeed a mint original gun.

@verncommet1798 3 ай бұрын

I remember when these were coming in and even the cheaper post war models. I worked with a fellow retiring and he had a P38 ac41 he gave it to me for the same price, turns out it’s an a block all matching in the holster with 44 carved in it from the GI. Story was he operated on the airborne soldier that captured it, it’s my favorite 🤩

@markelalagoz7363 3 ай бұрын

Sir, I appreciate the way you approach explaining history of weapons, especially the Russian weapons. You explain, in a professional manner without any kind of bias. As a 55-year-old American, I’ve seen a lot of my fellow Americans have bias towards anything Russian. I was born and raised not that way. I don’t have a racial bias. so I just wanted to say I like the way you approach things in a professional manner. You are also very educational. Keep up the good work. I like your channel

@garymitchell5899 3 ай бұрын

1945 was 80 yrs ago so even a 20 yr old would be 100+. Veterans aren't "dying off" - they're already sadly dead.

@VrILLR 3 ай бұрын

"Shit yougin' you don't want this smoke, I can still hit the gritty droppin my gyatt low." - WW2 vet

@donwyoming1936 3 ай бұрын

Like the Russian capture K98ks. Obvious from across the room with the black dip finish on the metal and infamous red lacquer on the wood.

@streetwithoutjoy 3 ай бұрын

My dad gave me his Russian captured 1938 Luger. Lots of pinpricking, messed up unmatched grips- but it still has the original finish down to the wax in the safety marking! Perfect shooter grade.

@Broadsword999 3 ай бұрын

There is one such storehouse in Ukraine which was captured by the Russians, there is footage of Crates of Lend Lease Thompson M1A1 in an old mine.

@ericgarringer6911 2 ай бұрын

God I saw that I wanted to cry what blew my mind was the crates of maxim guns

@gertgilich3508 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Tom. Great stream. Regards from SSW, South Africa. 🇿🇦🇺🇲

@gotsig99 3 ай бұрын

The “half cocked” photographer cutaway is right out of “Monty Python and The Holy Grail”! Hillarious.

@ahall1459 3 ай бұрын

Great video, learned some new details....just a friendly request, when showing the items up close use a backlight to reflect to bring up the details as its a dark environment your in and secondedly, take a bit of time to allow the camera to focus on the small details as more often than not, you are moving the item before the detail in question is fully seen. Thank you.

@WAFFENAMT1 3 ай бұрын

I remember seeing all these Russian refurbished (dipped) German WW2 era small arm rifles and pistols decades ago during the Golden Age of military small arms surplus, they all looked like they had been rode hard and put up ruined...reason I never purchased one even though the prices were very low back then...never knew I could have easily wiped the crappy bluing off...

@danielnewman134 3 ай бұрын

I thought Russian Dip was for hors d'oeuvres.

@Subgunman 3 ай бұрын

It reminds me of the SKS's that were brought in from the former Soviet states. They were sold a gun shows by the crate load. You could buy them for around $69 each in the nineties. These P38’s could be had in the nineties for a mere $150 each at the gun shows that were imported.

@Wazup13579 3 ай бұрын

Picked up one in January. Mine is an all matching ac43. It has no Russian X, is absolutely amazing condition, matching or “correct” magazine in original bluing, and is marketed “GERMANY” on the side of the receiver under the grip.

@cgpettit9791 3 ай бұрын

My SA Police service pistol in 1987 was a P38 Unbelievable

@DA-ev1jb 3 ай бұрын

I picked one up at pawn shop years ago cyq matching numbers.

@Nick_B_Bad 3 ай бұрын

First P38 I ever bought was an AC41 with the X on the slide. I could not find an import mark on it anywhere either. Maybe the same guy imported that one too? 😂Surprisingly it was all matching except just a 359 marked magazine. Bought it for 500 ended up selling it for 750 a few years later. Still haven’t replaced it and got another P38 in my collection.😢

@LS1007 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info. Always learn something from your videos. Have a great day! 🙏🏼

@Lostinthesand 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video. I have to interest in these information videos. I have a Police Turn in P1 Aluminum frame non pin Walther. A Steal Frame 1964 Commercial P38, and an US Capture P38. Unfortunately I let my Russian Dipped P38 go and I regret it now. Thank you for the lessons.

@cbroz7492 3 ай бұрын

..had a captured P 38..ac 42..oretty nice condition..sold it 22 years ago after my stroke in 02

@ronaldbyrne3320 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Tom, learned a lot from this one. 🙏🏻

@luciusartorius3437 3 ай бұрын

fun fact: most of these guns came from Ukraine around 2014, after the revolution ppl got a hold of a lot of captured warehouses, that's when forgotten weapons made career out of reviewing captured russian guns previously stored in Ukraine, there was a lot of fg42s especially, each of these costs a fortune

@hirampritchard5588 3 ай бұрын

As always, I learned a bunch. Thanks.

@Nighthawk1966 3 ай бұрын

Great video ! Very informative!

@davidboese6276 3 ай бұрын

Great video. Thanks for the info

@frankbutta9344 3 ай бұрын

Great Video!

@MGB-learning 3 ай бұрын

Very good and informative video and presentation.

@mrhamburger6936 3 ай бұрын

ATF is been noted to make there own rules

@xvonfrankenstein 3 ай бұрын

"Their"

@AdamosDad 3 ай бұрын

I have one that looks like a factory gun but it's late war I found the falling block is dark and it has a very faint import mark just under the beaver tail, it however has no x's so I'm not sure what, I have. It by the way is a Spreewerk. Great information Tom.

@edwardpetty5401 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for such an informative video.

@simonjones6128 3 ай бұрын

Nice history Tom

@brianjay692 3 ай бұрын

2:15 Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those numbers up in this racket …

@cbroz7492 3 ай бұрын

..the most 'delicious' irony of the Post Cold War era was 'Gorby' in a commercial, shilling for Pizza Hut...

@askhowiknow5527 3 ай бұрын

He was a cool dude all things considered He understood the irony going into it

@boskobuha8312 3 ай бұрын

Yugoslavia never was behind iron curtain , it was in alliance of the non-aligned

@MrSloika 3 ай бұрын

His understanding of history is sketchy at best.

@user-jr8rk6dj5y 3 ай бұрын

that was very good to know about the x I have a luger with that and dident know so now I do thanks so much

@frenchfan3368 3 ай бұрын

Tom, will using the Miracle Cloth alone (with a lot of elbow grease I imagine) work for removing the vast majority of the Russian Dip on a P38? I realize you showed it briefly but was unsure if the cloth is just to mop off what has already been done by previous removal. Thank you for this great video and education behind these great guns of the Second World War! See you in Tulsa hopefully!

@sashabaha9485 3 ай бұрын

Hello, I have a question. I have a K96 cone hummer Mauser in my collection, it is in excellent condition but it has no rifling in the barrel. The inside of the barrel shows factory finishing but no rifling. Can you tell me what this is? Sincerely, Alexander

@kimrosendahl5255 3 ай бұрын

02:57...Isn't it past your bedtime?

@keithmoore5306 3 ай бұрын

from what i've been told the Russian dip is hot cosmolene and their formula for cosmolene is apparently yak shit and axle grease mixed together!!!

@markives5219 3 ай бұрын

Hi Tom, greetings from Australia. Would you use Miracle cloth on early high polish Colts? E.g for an early 1912 manufactured 1911? Many thanks, Mark

@sweston7 3 ай бұрын

You should also note that the swastika has been peened on your example. I assume that affects the value to a degree.

@StephenRWilliams 3 ай бұрын

I assumed Russian Dip was like the soviet equivalent of The Dip from Who Framed Roger Rabbit (which sounds pretty awful).

@rohendee714 3 ай бұрын

My Class3 dealer isn't a Reagan fan

@MrSloika 3 ай бұрын

It was a deal. They closed the book on new full auto but opened the market to imports.

@LesterWilloughby-fo9gj 3 ай бұрын

Is "bluing" the same thing as "diping" and what was the reason why the Russian P38's were dipped anyway?

@FoxtrotFleet 3 ай бұрын

Yes, Russians reblued everything they captured. They often disassembled and reassembled at random, creating batches of mismatch weapons, which is fine for many weapons but hand fitted weapons like Lugers...

@DustyGamma 3 ай бұрын

Now days, Russian DIP usually refers to: Deceptive Imagery Persuasion... But this is nicer!

@ftdefiance1 3 ай бұрын

Vietnam and North Korea received a metric ton of these

@MrSloika 3 ай бұрын

Not only North Vietnam and Korea. The Russians provided large amounts of capture weapons to various Mid-east, Asian, African, and South American countries and to communist insurrection groups. American GI came across large numbers of Stg-44s in Iraq.

@Don-kr5tp 3 ай бұрын

I have one that is all numbers matching but there three x's over the original serial number and then the same number was etched in. ?

@ProfessorBidoof 3 ай бұрын

"when they come to us we register them" why? you don't have to, and who are u registering them with?? You're in PA, which is USA. if your're buying them with your Type 07 thats a little different. If you're just "registering them" with local or fed databaes thats sad.

@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860 3 ай бұрын

Russian dipped sounds like a salad dressing.

@454FatJack 3 ай бұрын

Summer 23 Ukraina old salt mine ,gun’s from USA Lend and Lease Ever used.

@feralvulcan7955 3 ай бұрын

So does the Miracle Cloth remove bluing?

@franciscofranco4520 3 ай бұрын

@steveshoemaker6347 3 ай бұрын

T hanks for the lesson Tom.... Old F-4 Shoe🇺🇸

@ventilator2999 Ай бұрын

How much on average is the value for good condition, all matching russian X marked and refinished P38 / AC 1944?

@Snek123CZ 29 күн бұрын

wait, a million guns got in the US? But there were only about 1 mill. of P38 ever made... no? Or do you mean guns generally?

@jakisfly 3 ай бұрын

Now I want to put in a fat lip of Russian Dipped. Does indeed sound exotic

@danielleclare2938 3 ай бұрын

Have numbers match Spree no dip no import marks no marks on the mag...why???

@douglascatron9073 3 ай бұрын

I have one that has a star stamped in the slide. Was told it was made during the occupation of Germany by the Russian’s. Can’t find any info on it. Anyone know?

@PUJARTIAGO77 3 ай бұрын

If they had warehouses full of those pistols why didn’t they issue it to their soldiers same goes for the American army??

@MrSloika 3 ай бұрын

Logistics.

@sammyprestwood3182 3 ай бұрын

It's amazing how many firearms Russia manufacturers yet they will not allow civilians to have one.

@francisdec1615 3 ай бұрын

1:48 Why do you register them? I thought that was against the whole point of the 2nd Amendment. Here in Europe you must register all modern (usually after 1890) guns, but we never had a constitutional right to own firearms. Many countries didn't have gun control until after WWI or even longer, but there was never a *right* to own a gun in the way it (supposedly) is in the US.

@SolarGeneral 3 ай бұрын

Because Americas freedom is a myth. We have had laws restricting freedom since the colonies.

@MrSloika 3 ай бұрын

He's a dealer. He's not 'registering' the guns, he's recording them in his books as he's required to do by law. Every FFL dealer is required to do the same for any gun they transfer.

@SolarGeneral 3 ай бұрын

Because it’s not really free here.

@user-rf8cd2st2k 3 ай бұрын

Bolo tie

@MrEbug68 3 ай бұрын

The Bill Belichick of guns

@mikedemaria3695 3 ай бұрын

Good grief man. Gorbachev "kindler and gentler"? HE WAS FORCED BY REAGAN to tear it down.

@MrSloika 3 ай бұрын

The Soviet economy collapsed. There was no force involved.

@JuanPablo-xi4hg 3 ай бұрын

Deberían averiguar si es legal una Luger calibre 45 que mostraron acá.. en la ciudad de Azul, Argentina, se robaron la Única que supuestamente existe en el mundo.

@realx09 3 ай бұрын

Fact that the post Soviet countries were selling military surplus was due to the widespread corruption, not the altruistic need to fund any kind of social programs. Yugoslavia was not part of the East Bloc, btw.

@julesbower762 3 ай бұрын

Ugly import mark? Have you seen what they put on new firearms? Paragraphs... If that last one is worth less, may as well rent it out at the range for people to get it hot.

@johnniecameron8829 3 ай бұрын

People will collect anything and call it special

@johnbrown4937 3 ай бұрын

These were sold by mail order … I have an add for those . Did not like them at the time.

@grayparatrooper 3 ай бұрын

When these first came in they werent popular. Blueing not great,mismatched parts,not great import marks. I never bought one. You can get a non r/c for less than 1k all day if you look around. For cheap yes for 1k+ no thanks.

@hyfy-tr2jy 3 ай бұрын

Magic cloths are ABRASIVE...its not just the coconut oil

@aron7439 3 ай бұрын

💯🪖👂🏼🫡🇷🇺

@VrILLR 3 ай бұрын

Imagine removing "nAzI sYmBolS".....

@garyzanghi9272 3 ай бұрын

Curious about my 42 and 63 now

@MrSloika 3 ай бұрын

Yugoslavia was never behind the 'Iron Curtain'. You don't know what you're talking about.

@Guntaku_Gaijin 3 ай бұрын

Awww. Don't be mean to Bruce.

@michaelvolovik4516 3 ай бұрын

не знаю, что он говорит, но он врёт, рядом с немецким вальтером Р - 38 только и слышно : рашен рашен рашен. И морда его мне тоже не нравится.

@chadplow824 3 ай бұрын

рофейные орудия после захвата «окунали» в воронку. Коллекционеры считают их немного менее желанными, но воронение можно стереть. Он также говорит о том, как отличить оружие российского импорта от сувениров американских солдат. Google translate

@cavalierghost 3 ай бұрын

you register them? for legal reasons? lmfao. Never understood how that isn't unconstitutional but maybe yall are from california.

@828enigma6 3 ай бұрын

Massachusetts is as bad.

@dickgenitalia1506 3 ай бұрын

Tom, when you talk about the Russian dip, is it similar to the cosmoline coating the US used when storing weapons? Or is it a metal finish that would remain were the weapon reissued?

@fattywithafirearm 3 ай бұрын

I recently purchased a Mauser HSc that was Russian captured. Its in pretty good condition. The waffenampt has been ground and the slide has the serial number electropencil on it sadly. But I got it for like 350 shipped.

@SikterEfendi 3 ай бұрын

Yugoslavia was never behind the iron curtain. As a matter of fact it was damn near invaded by the Soviet army and their allies in 1948. It was never a member of the Warsaw Pact or any other military alliance for that matter. For someone who wants to tell history you may want to learn it first. Stick to firearms and markings and steer clear from the political background you know nothing about.