When was it made?
 

Any information is appreciated

Manowar3 -

The serial number places it in 1923 and the Swiss made 2,370 of them that year.

Mauser720 - Ron

Thanks a lot for looking it up!

"Waffen" welcome to the forum!

It is apprecaited if you at least have a real name and location (state / country) in your profile.


ADMIN

Fixed it. Sorry about that.

Daniel, thank you. I've never made it to Switzerland; although my wives plane was diverted and she saw the airport ;)


Ed

Ed! Your "wives" plane? ... surely you meant your Wife's plane, eh? :D

Daniel,

I was fortunate enough to have visited both Zurich and Geneva back in the 1970's on government business... what a beautiful country... and very friendly people... except for the KGB type (we nick-named him Boris) who followed us around for two days reading a newspaper until we sent a waiter over to his table with a glass of vodka... He promptly departed and within an hour was replaced by someone else who followed us around until we went to the airport to leave. Fun times during the Cold War...

I remember a "British" style pub (Sorry TAC!) , not far from the U.S. Mission in Geneva... Had a great evening there on my first night, before having to go to WORK the next day... :)

06 Waffenfabrik Bern - The Pictures
 

Very nice.

Nice to meet you all. I live close to Zurich (in the lake Zug area). Spent three years in the U.S. where I met my wife and always love to go back to visit.

manowar3

Manowar3,
could you please take a picture of the underside of your 06-Bern. I would like to see the number on the sideplate and on the takedown-lever if there is a number.
Thanks, Armin.

Hi Armin,

the last two digits of the serial number are on the side plate. No number on the take-down lever.

manowar3

Manowar3,
thank you very much for the requested picture. This is one of the numerous swiss parabellum pistols with the take down lever not numbered and the side plate number head long. I have never heard a good explanation for this phenomenon.
Regards, Armin.

Shoots great

Hi,

The ammunition is being made today by Fiocchi, amongst others.
The swiss army stuff is generally speaking a steel jacketed round with a copperwashed surface. I'd be a bit careful shooting too much of the Swiss stuff on a regular basis.

The Fiocchi ammo costs 80 cents (88 Rappen) per round in Switzerland. That's a bit steep to shoot regulary...

Hi Manowar
I live arround Lausanne and I have a 06/24 Waffenfabrik and 2 pcs 06/29Swiss. I was at the range last week and I had no problem to purchase Swiss Fed Ammunition 7.65. You should may be go to another Schiessverein arround Z�¼rich. Best regards from another Swiss Luger collector

That's good to hear, Fredo.

Manowar and Fredo, welcome to this Forum. It's always good to hear from Swiss collectors from the "source" country. We not too long ago were able to buy from a large supply of surplus Lapua 30 Luger imported by Sportmans Guide here in the USA. I'm sure these are sold out now. Notice my avatar, which is a 1902 "Swiss re-work" pistol. This may be an example of a rejected Swiss military 9mm trial pistol. As you know the Swiss never accepted the 9mm over the 7.65 mm. This luger was arsenal restored and re-proofed with Geneva crosses, even in the frame well (overstamped the 1902 triangle in circle). The bore is well worn, indicating that your earlier military coutrymen really gave it a good trial!

I'm not surprised, with those Swiss loads you'd expect the bore not to last very long. Steel on steel is not quite without friction.

But, hey, if there's a good supply of steel cased ammo and a good supply of barrels and gunsmiths available....