Balder and Lugerlou,
Model 1900 leaf springs are not -that- expensive, and they can be found pretty easily. I bought a new-manufactured one from Tom Heller not too long ago, iirc he charged me $50 for it.
If you are going to shoot your 1900 I would recommend you put in a new recoil spring anyway. These springs get weak over a hundred years, I'm sure that, if not for the toggle lock, I could have worked the action on mine by simply shaking it hard.
Even the new springs are not very powerful. When I shoot my 1900 (rest assured that it is -defintiely- a shooting-quality gun) I find that loads which are powerful enough to operate a 1920s-era .30 Commercial are way too powerful for the 1900, it really -cracks- the toggle stop against the back of the frame. I find that Fiocci .30 Luger, not normally powerful enough for a coil-spring Luger, is exactly what suits a flat-spring gun.
--Dwight
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