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Originally Posted by DavidJayUden
And Norme, I find it no more absurd that the barrel has been removed or somehow altered, than I find it that it tightened itself up. (Insert smiley face here...)
Just my $.02.
dju
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Hi David, What is absurd is the idea that a German armorer would go to the trouble of unscrewing a Luger barrel and then replacing it with the SAME barrel!
The passage of a bullet through a rifled barrel imparts a rotational torque, and the right hand twist of a Luger's rifling makes the barrel self tightening. This is standard engineering practice with parts that are subjected to torque, such as bicycle pedals, those on the left side having a left hand thread, those on the right a conventional right hand thread.
Regards, Norm