Pete, you mentioned black powder in the 1902 carbine comments. My impression is that DWM always used their own high quality (for the time) smokeless powder. Fred Datig,on page 186, refers to ".42 gram Walsrode powder" that he believes was for a Borchardt style cartridge in the 1898 Swiss tests. I think this is a smokeless load.
My experience with shooting black powder revolvers would lead me to doubt an automatic ould function more than a few shots with black powder.
regards, heinz
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