Was a beautiful afternoon..didn't have anything pressing at work..so I decided to shoot my pieced together Mauser Luger, and try some magazines I had accumulated.
I managed to get a couple of my coil spring eagle/63 mags working fine. Two others won't work..I suspect the springs are weak.
My expensive fxo mags came up working after jamming some..but they were bone dry..I lubed them up..worked the followers around...they came up working like a very pricy fxo mag should.
The Mecgars..these mags sort of disappoint me..but I got one working. I've tried these before..and they were a failure in my Lugers. One of these new mags I had installed a Wolff xtra power spring in..with some lube it came up running. The other new mag I guess needs an xtra power spring too.
Ammo I used was Remington/UMC bulk pack..and the proverbial Winchester/USA brand white box stuff.
With functional coilspring mags..either Mauser or mecgar..either ammo worked well in the Russian Mauser. The fxo mags didn't like the UMC stuff much..but were fine with the Winchester.
The UMC is noticably weaker than the Winchester ammo(I've had bad/weak batches of Winchester white box in the past though). With good working mags..sometimes failed to lock the Mauser back when empty..the Rem/UMC ammo was right on the ragged edge of not being powerful enough to run the gun.
Out of eight mags..two new..two extruded..rest eagle/63 sheet metal type looking like a Cromwell tank had run them over...I got five of them working well.
The two eagle/63 mags..and the one mecgar just ain't working. I really don't want to tweek the feedlips..I did tweek the openings a bit on the old clunkers...but I think the springs are spent on these..makes the mags too slow to feed the gun.
I'm thinking the Mecgar will work if I install a new Wolff spring in it..and I may order enough springs for the two cranky old mags as well.
Any advice on making crappy coilspring P08 mags work?
Thanks, Stevie.