Test Eagle chaos

[Dwight Gruber]

Originally Posted by MFC

I think it's safe to say that some Test Eagles were cannibalized to repair others. Many are mismatched.

Mismatched pistols can be found in the range sn 5778 to sn 7976.

Originally Posted by MFC

Is it possible that some the 163 unserviceable pistols inventoried at the Springfield Armory, sent for repair, weren't finished for lack of parts? Then those and the cannibalized pistols and any leftover parts sent to Rock Island later that year for further repair, thus counted twice?
Why would they leave partially repaired Lugers and leftover parts at Springfield if they were going to be sold?

Springfield Armory
Jan. 28, 1910, 163 pistols inventoried "unserviceable but repairable"
Feb. 4, 1910 number of pistols revised to 161
May 25, 1910 refurbishing reported completed
June 10, 1910
159 pistols repaired
2 pistols not repairable


Rock Island Arsenal
Oct. 31, 1910 306 pistols inventoried
Nov. 12 1910
291 pistols repaired/returned to serviceability
13 pistols unserviceable
2 stolen

Nowhere in the surveyed documents is there mention of a transfer of resources.

--Dwight