How does it work?

Jim Keenan · 09-01-2003, 07:37 PM

Ron, I think it is that the Luger has always been a mystery to the gunzine type writer. It is just not the "straight back" operation that they can handle. Everyone can understand pressure pushing backwards, not everyone can accept Newton's laws, which require (to me) a bit of faith.

Those "quotes" were not from one source or one writer, but an accumulation over a period of years. Some have also been used to "explain" the operation of other recoil operated pistols, like the Model 1911 .45.

Incidentally, I have a Borchardt that is not in so good a condition that I am unwilling to strip it down. Is anyone interested in pictures of the internals and how they go together, or would it be information already well known to the folks here?

Jim

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09-01-2003, 07:37 PM	#6
Jim Keenan User Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 184 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Ron, I think it is that the Luger has always been a mystery to the gunzine type writer. It is just not the "straight back" operation that they can handle. Everyone can understand pressure pushing backwards, not everyone can accept Newton's laws, which require (to me) a bit of faith. Those "quotes" were not from one source or one writer, but an accumulation over a period of years. Some have also been used to "explain" the operation of other recoil operated pistols, like the Model 1911 .45. Incidentally, I have a Borchardt that is not in so good a condition that I am unwilling to strip it down. Is anyone interested in pictures of the internals and how they go together, or would it be information already well known to the folks here? Jim