Talk:TOZ rifle

Name of the article
It is necessary to rename the article, because now its name is wrong. There was no such thing as "TOZ rifle" (compare it with such statements as "Winchester shotgun" or "Springfield rifle"). If you compare TOZ-1 and TOZ-8, you will find a lot in common. Some parts of TOZ-8 and TOZ-16 are interchangeable. But if you compare early .22 caliber rifles (such as single-shot TOZ-8) and repeating rifles (such as TOZ-17... not to mention the later models, such as TOZ-78) - they are different. Combining articles about TOZ-8 and TOZ-17 is like combining wiki-articles Springfield model 1873 and M1903 Springfield. By the way, TOZ-8 deserved a separate article, if only because more than 1 million TOZ-8 and TOZ-8M rifles were made and they were most common cadet rifles in USSR for decades Shadowcaster (talk) 06:18, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

TOZ rifles and shotguns ... dozens of them
TOZ is an acronym for "Tula Arms Factory" All hunting and civilian weapons of the factory are named TOZ. It include .22 LR small caliber rifles like mentioned TOZ-8, -12 and -78 and dozens of different shotgun and rifles models. Most common production list is:

bolt-action shotguns: TOZ-94, -106, -194 semiautomatic shotguns: TOZ-87,-88, -124 two-barrel shotguns: TOZ-BM, -34,-54,-120,-200 rifle-shotgun two-barrel guns (usually left bore for rifle cartridge, second for shotgun one): TOZ 134, 250 .22 caliber sporting rifles: TOZ-8,-12,-61 small caliber hunting bolt-action and semiautomatic rifles: TOZ-17,-78,-99,-122

This is only a small list of TOZ marked production, let's say it is most common guns on market in our days. Actually TOZ-marked rifles is about 200 of different guns, mostly shotguns and hunting rifles.

Non-hunting TOZ production is AK, AKM, AK-74, AK-109, RPK, PKM - virtually any gun Russian army uses. 5.165.208.31 (talk) 09:40, 25 December 2023 (UTC)