I must apologize for the video, for some reason this one was a bear to get through. Anyway, the Radom P83 is an inexpensive fun to shoot piece of history. The idea that the Polish wanted to do their own thing under communist rule was quite the snub to the U.S.S.R.
Designed by Ryszard Chełmicki and Marian Gryszkiewicz of the state research institute Ośrodek Badawczo-Rozwojowy. The P-83 succeeded the P64 as the sidearm for the Polish Army and police.
In the 70s, Radom began to develop a replacement pistol design that would be cheaper to manufacture than the P64. Their fruits bore the Wanad P83 pistol. Chambered for the standard U.S.S.R.cartridge, 9x18mm (Makarov) it was adopted in 1984 as the 9mm pistolet wz.1983, or P-83.
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