![]() ![]() The slide also has a full- length textured anti-glare strip on the top The Makarov design is widely regarded as particularly well balanced. The PM is heavy for its size, largely because of the heavy slide which is needed to provide greater inertia to delay the opening of the breech until internal pressures have fallen to a safe level. The 9×18mm cartridge (Russian designation: 57-N-181S) around which this pistol was designed provides enough energy to action the blowback design. ![]() Blowback designs are simple and more accurate than designs using a recoiling, tilting, or articulated barrel, but they are limited practically by the need to have weight in the slide. ![]() In a blowback designs such as this, the only force holding the slide closed is that of the recoil spring wrapped around the barrel as a consequence upon firing the barrel and slide do not have to unlock. The Makarov PM is an 8 shot medium-size pistol with a straight blowback action and is of all steel construction with a frame-fixed barrel. ![]()
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