Is it ok to get a $2000 Luger... then shoot it often?

[Ron Wood]

They didn't blow up...but if and when they do, they are gone forever. You can't go back in time and undo a screwup.

[Michael Zeleny]

Originally Posted by Ron Wood

They didn't blow up...but if and when they do, they are gone forever. You can't go back in time and undo a screwup.

I am unmoved by this argument. If I choose to shoot my pristine C96 and break its breechblock in the process, I can just as well afford to have a replica part made and fitted. The repair then becomes a part of the pistol's history, neither more nor less authentic than the wear and tear that it suffered in the XXth century. If Iraqis are allowed to run Tokarev ammo through their Borchardts, so am I.

"What one man can do, another can do." © 1997 David Mamet

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by Michael Zeleny

If Iraqis are allowed to run Tokarev ammo through their Borchardts, so am I.

Just my $02, but 7.63 Mauser ammunition should function well in a Borchardt. I don't have a Borchardt to try it on, but as the C96 was developed shortly after the Borchardt, I think it is safe to assume they both functioned satisfactorily with it. The C96 proved more popular than the Borchardt, but both were sold & shot contemporarily for a few short years.