luger rifle upper complete ?

[Ron Wood]

A forestock attached to a barrel will flat not function. First of all there has to be about 3/8 inch free space between the rear of the stock and the receiver or the receiver will not move during recoil and the action will not cycle. Secondly, even with the free space the weight of the forestock inhibits cycling so every round jams, and you can't hold the forestock while shooting as that further exacerbates the problem.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by Rick W.

The ones that feature the wood attached to the longish barrel are at best single shots...

I would not mind a Luger rifle that required hand cycling or pump operation...I wouldn't particularly like to have to hand cycle the toggle, but if a Borchardt style toggle knob was attached it might make it bearable...

Now I'm wondering if a barrel attached forearm could be made pump action...A long rod connecting a sliding/movable forearm to the toggle...And a lock so it won't recoil until you manually unlock it...Hmmmm...

I've seen the Numrich 16" barrels for sale on GB/eBay (with and without attached forearm); I suppose that is because the owners found out that it wasn't an easy swap-out...