HF, so let me get this right: Your oddball Luger was actually assembled totally in 1916 during the “q” suffix period of production for that year at the Erfurt plant using a receiver that had originally been produced and stamped in 1914? But was apparently set aside (the receiver) as a “left over” part?
I’m definitely no expert on these pistols like Mr. Still is, (not even close) but I don’t exactly understand the expression “left over” here. Do you guys mean failed inspection parts, like for quality control or such?
If so, and this failed 1914 receiver was used in desperation to slap together a pistol anyway they could (by hook or crook so to say) wouldn’t it of been nearer the close of the war in 1918? I’ve read two books on German rifles (Law’s “Backbone” and Weaver’s “Hitler’s Garands”) that suggest that failed QC parts like these were generally only used out of shear desperation near the very end of a conflict.
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