Basically in June I ended up with a little unexpected surprise in the form of a Yugo M57
TT-33 clone. I had made an order from classic arms and ordered a rifle, the M57, and some tokarev ammo. 2 days later my stuff comes in minus the M57 and I had never been charged for it. I decided I would wait on it and purchase it in a few months. I then bought myself a little birthday present in the form of an XD-357. The next day my dealer calls me up and says I got another package from classic arms in and apparently they mistakenly thought I wanted one of their special chrome plated models that are special order. Anyway, I couldn't turn it down once I saw it.
Field stripping it was a bit confusing for me at first, especially because of the complete lack of any documentation anywhere, which is why I decided to do this.
I cleaned up the leather holster with some clorox wipes and it looked only a little beat up afterward.
It came with the holster and 2 mags
Another view
First step to stripping is removing the slide stop retaining pin. I use the mag to pop mine loose.
Next step is to pop out the slide stop pictured here
Push this pin on this side
Slide stop will start to come out and you'll have to wiggle it loose
Removed!
Now that pesky slide will come right off
The slide comes right off
Bottom view of the slide
The guide rod is a 2 part assembly with a hinge in the middle. It shifts downward during cycling instead of the barrel shifting upward, so its sort of a fixed barrel. Pull that guide rod out, so we can get to the barrel.
No more guide rod
I'm not sure what the actual name of this part is, but I'm going to call it the slide cap. Give this thing a 180 and pull it off.
The barrel has a loop on it that the slide stop locks into and it will be sticking up.
We'll need to push it forward to remove the barrel
The barrel will now be free to slide out of the front of the slide and voila, the slide is stripped.
Now for the frame
You can see the hammer assembly on the top of the frame
It will just lift right off
I know its kind of hard to see, but on the left in the photo in the magwell, there is a metal bar. You need to use a cleaning rod or something similar to slide it to the opposite side to remove the hand guard.
Same deal on this side. Slide this piece aside and remove the other hand guard.
Last step is removing the safety
I pull it up
and it comes right off
Done!
I'll tack on a reassembly shortly.
