Luger Identification Guide - Rework and non-DWM Lugers. Vickers LTD Luger Identification Guide. 1 to 5 digit serial with letter.

Cutaway drawing of the Luger design from Georg Luger's 1904 US patent One of the first, the Luger was designed to use a toggle-lock action, which uses a jointed arm to lock, as opposed to the slide actions of almost every other semi-automatic pistol. After a round is fired, the barrel and toggle assembly (both locked together at this point) travel rearward due to recoil. After moving roughly 13 mm (0.5 in) rearward, the toggle strikes a cam built into the frame, causing the knee joint to hinge and the toggle and breech assembly to unlock. At this point the barrel impacts the frame and stops its rearward movement, but the toggle assembly continues moving (bending the knee joint) due to momentum, extracting the spent casing from the chamber and ejecting it. The toggle and breech assembly subsequently travel forward under spring tension and the next round from the magazine is loaded into the chamber.

The entire sequence occurs in a fraction of a second. This mechanism works well for higher-pressure cartridges, but cartridges loaded to a lower pressure can cause the pistol to because they do not generate enough recoil to work the action fully.

This results in either the breech block not clearing the top cartridge of the magazine, or becoming jammed open on the cartridge's base. While this phenomenon of malfunctions with under-powered cartridges can and does occur with Browning-type and other pistol designs, it is true that the Luger tends to be quite sensitive to changes in cartridges made to specifications other than the high-quality German-made brass-cased ammunition it was designed to use exclusively. In World War I, as were found to be effective in, experiments with converting various types of pistols to ( Reihenfeuerpistolen, literally 'row-fire pistols' or 'consecutive fire pistols') were conducted, including the P08 pistol. Like the, which would many years later be manufactured in a selective-fire version (Schnellfeuer) or Reihenfeuerpistolen, the Luger proved to have an excessive in full-automatic mode.

Luger pistols were manufactured in Germany and Switzerland to very close tolerances and exacting standards using the highest quality materials of the day, and original pistols were known for having a long service life. The design requires hand fitting of certain parts for proper operation. Assembling the gun using a sideplate from another pistol, for example, may prevent the sear from working, making the pistol inoperable.

The Luger barrel, which was rigidly fixed to the barrel extension and carried the front sight, provided excellent accuracy. Praised the Luger's 145° (55° for Americans) grip angle and duplicated it in his. The famous handgun author and revolver enthusiast observed that it was partly due to poor experiences with Lugers constructed from salvaged parts that the design had been unfairly criticized by gun writers over the years as unreliable. Keith noted that the Luger was a 'natural pointer', one of the most accurate of all autoloading pistols - particularly at long ranges - and reminded critics that the Luger was the choice of more nations as their military sidearm than any other contemporary pistol or revolver.

Luger 04 Pistol of the •: Armed forces used Lugers after 1945, supplied from the French controlled Mauser factory • • Walter, John. The Luger Story.

Download Free Full Games Under 500mb here. Greenhill Books. • •: Used Luger pistols in a semi-official capacity taken from disarmed. •: The French occupied and operated the Mauser factory 1945–46, then seized remaining Mauser parts stocks to assemble approximately 4,000 Luger pistols for French forces • • • • • •: Used by the and agents. • • • •: Dutch arms factories made Lugers in 1912 for use by the. Other contracts were completed for the Dutch Navy commencing in 1923, and the Dutch Air Force in 1928. •: Almost 14,000 Dutch KNIL M.11 Lugers were in Indonesia before the. As such, the Luger was widely used during the.

General is known to have personally carried an M.11. • •: Captured Lugers issued to RNZAF ADS officers 1942-45. •: In use from 1945 and phased out in 1987. Download Buku Discipline Belajar Photoshop on this page. • •: Used by Chang Tso-lin's warlord army. • • • •: The Swiss Army was the first to adopt the Luger.

1900-1950 • • The U.S. Ordnance Board purchased 1,000 Model 1900 7.65mm pistols under an official military contract order and issued them to active duty cavalry troops for field testing. Non-state entities [ ] • • • See also [ ] • • • • • • • References [ ] Citations.

I have a matching numbers P.08 Luger that my dad brought home from the war. On the top of the receiver it has 42 and byf on the top of the frog leg.

I think it was made by Mauser, but I would like to know more about it, The serial number is 3830. Can anyone tell me what the probable date of manufacture is on this gun or direct me to more resources? Below are a few pictures of this gun from the left and right and a close up of the markings on the right side just behind the barrel. The color and lighting are most accurate on the first picture. I appreciate any help y'all can provide.

The 'byf' is the German military supplier code and indicates that this pistol was manufactured by Deutche Waffen und Munitions Fabriken (DWM, aka: Mauser). '42' indicates 1942 production. Serial numbers indicate sequence of production during that year (3830th piece of that model made during 1942). DWM was one of the primary arms makers for the German military.

Another was Erma Werke, and they also made P08 pistols during WW2. The additional markings are called 'Waffenamts', inspection and acceptance markings of the German army. There are published sources that may provide further information based on the specific numbers stamped with the eagle-with-swastika proofmark. The magazine has the proper aluminum base, and should also be serial numbered to the pistol, although magazines are interchangeable and replacement magazines were not commonly serial numbered. So, a genuine military contract production P08 that appears to be entirely original. There were also commercial pistols produced, which would have the stylized 'DWM' trademark over the breach, along with production year stamped. Many of the commercial pistols were privately purchased by German officers.

I suggest that you document your father's historical account for this pistol. Details of when and how it came into his possession, along with the provenance of ownership since that time, are always interesting to collectors.