[DonVoigt]

Originally Posted by alvin

The panel would need a little bit fitting, that's true. But comparing with steel against steel fitting, wood against steel fitting is relatively simple due to wood is soft material. Before plastic pistol appears, most pistols depended on the pattern on the back of panel to prevent it from swinging, that's not Luger specific. Using a pin for that purpose, although less common, it was not an innovation either, that works too. The failure came from the position of the hole and the diameter of the pin, its strength must be put into consideration. Using a needle-like pin on a wood hole near the edge was incorrect. The engineer who designed this specific change obviously ignored that.

Absolutely , poor design.