Desire opinions of P08 trigger configuration
 

Hello, something that always comes to mind when examining my P08s concerns the design of the trigger. The portion of the trigger that the operators finger comes in contact with to fire forms an arc that appears to be more than 180 degrees, actually wrapping around the trigger finger. To me, this seems like a detriment to large fingered operators wearing heavy gloves in combat. Does this feature have a function beyond tradition to have been standard on ALL P08s? Sometimes I think this could be used to help control some sort of full-auto version. Please share your knowlege. Best Regards! Joe :typing:

Joe,

I think it is more of a leftover from the original Borchardt design. Early patent drawings show a trigger version that has even more material present at the front of the trigger, almost a mirror image of the other side. It is interesting that it took until 1929 for someone to figure out that this feature was quite useless and could be deleted, lowering both the weight and production costs (a bit).

In my opinion al these little weird features of the Parabellum show that Georg Luger was not so much a brilliant inventor, but more a very good project manager, who knew how to 'read' military acceptance committies and play them very well. His talents were mostly of a manipulative nature, not a technical one :)