Everybody who is a believer in the sideplate and trigger assembly need individual fitting theory can go stand in the corner.
When I was a senior in highschool I had managed to acquire 3 Lugers.
1910 DWM, 1917 Erfurt. and a very worn 41 BYF.
I mixed up all the parts once and reassembled the pistols randomly.
They did not perfectly interchange and would not function completely in a couple configurations.
I was shocked as I had assumed this was impossible for military equipment.
This was simplified a few years later by a 1st Sgt who informed me that I was not authorised to assume anything.
Friend of mine landed on Guam with the Marines.
He told me he jumped in a trench just as a son of the rising Sun dashed out of a bunker.
The Japanese raised up 1st and my friend has a vivid memory of the look on his face trying to palm off the safety after he discovered it was engaged.
Wierd things happen.
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