I lubed where needed and reassembled the pistol.

I applied grease to the rails, as I find grease stays where you put it better than oil on a semi-auto pistol.

It cleaned-up really nicely.

It was time to go to the range.

The pistol had "smaller" grips than some semi-autos.

It looks like it would be uncomfortably small.

But it fits the hand well and it turned out to have a really excellent trigger.

The sights are plenty large to use well.

To our great surprise, it shot really great.

It was loud, but the recoil wasn't too bad at all. And, most amazingly, it shot small groups to point of aim.

It is a joy to shoot.

We can't help but to compare it to the other popular type of C&R pistol in this caliber, the CZ-52. Here they are together.

They are both 7.62 X 25, and the Romanian milsurp ammo is corrosive.

Be sure to clean the pistol barrel with water after shooting. The difference in the pistols is surprising.

The T-33 had much less recoil and muzzle blast than the CZ-52. And the better sights and much better trigger made shooting it accurately much easier.

We were both surprised at the big difference in these areas.