GR translation: unslinging his Tokarev and firing from the hip

[János Széky]

Tokarevs were common in the WWII Soviet Army.  Yes it is possible he kept
it on a sling.

János

2016-11-23 10:01 GMT+01:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:

> V503.34-38, P512.9-13   One of the chimps now bites a Soviet corporal
> in the leg. The corporal screams, unslinging his Tokarev and firing
> from the hip, by which time the chimp has leaped for a halyard. A
> dozen more of the critters, many carrying vodka bottles, head en masse
> for the gangplank. “Don’t let them get away,” Haftung hollers.
>
> Weisenburger refers to the Tokarev as a pistol, probably the TT-30. Is
> it common to keep a pistol in a sling in WWII? Or is this more likely
> to be a rifle, perhaps the SVT-38 or SVT-40?
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