For Kohaku, some evidence
 

Hi,

As the original thread has been closed down, and I suspect rightly so, knowing John, I couldn't show this image there.

It's a period newspaper clipping showing Dutch volunteers to the SS (go figure..) practising using P08's. Pretty good evidence that they had access to and used P08's.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload...mall_copy1.jpg

As John stated earlier, please keep politics out of this thread.

cuz, Ed will cut it off ;)


:D

Above the knees or below the knees?

heh, heh, I'm the below the knees guy, that John, he's the vicious one :D

I have my hands on the padlock hasp as you speak :eek: :)

I read that thread, I'm just curious as to what the politics was? About the SS or what? Just wanted to know so that I don't post something that will get locked. Thanks.

This is a collectors forum, so if folks stray into politics, nazism, etc., we cut it off.


Ed

okay, thanks. Just wondering.....

Seems like an awkward way to fire a pistol: one hand hold, elbow bent, hunched over - almost as if those guys were too nearsighted to see the sights with their arms extended. Was this stance standard practice circa 1940? KFS

Hi Karl,
Yes it was, but if you go back even earlier (about turn of the century), you will find that the shooting position was even more radical- the upper and lower parts of the shooting arm were at about a 90 degree angle from each other (seen the photos but don�´t have anything to post, sorry). This brought the sights much closer to the face than modern competetive target shooting technic does (extended arm)- maybe this is why the sight formation was deemed acceptable by the powers in being at the time.