[lugerholsterrepair]

Phil, True! The Luger is ephemeral. It's brilliance will shine on for many more decades..as long as there is interest in the fine art of mechanics and an appreciation of quality. The Luger has that in spades. But believe me when I tell you that any DWM is prone to breakage. I can't count the many times a sad story has been posted on the two Luger Forums of a shooter telling his story..I have personally posted on a half dozen breakage stories myself. Likely to be more too..in future as I shoot often. If you ever get the chance and have any curiosity about this, get an example of 3 Luger extractors. WW1, WW2 Mauser and Swiss. The evolution of this one part will amaze you. The WW1 DWM is delicate in the extreme..the Mauser seems to beef it up, but the Swiss solved the problem.

material, or manufacturing defect is going to show up sooner or later, even in very small numbers. In the numbers of Luger's made, breakage was concurrent with numbers issued so the breakage problems were unlikely to be "small numbers" looking at the totality of it. Mauser saw it as a serious problem and went to great lengths of design and expense to address it and so did the Swiss.