Rich,
it has been in a couple or more threads, maybe on the other luger forum.
But basically, Mauser used a pin to locate the wood grips on the frame with a corresponding hole in the wood grip, it was/is not a satisfactory arrangement and leads to cracking, "wallowing" out the hole, and grips that move around.
A "short cut" that Mauser thought that they could use to reduce mfg. time for the grips, I guess; then it bit them .
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