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Originally Posted by gmborkovic
Saw a 1902 carbine at the Club Show . It is chambered for 9mm?
Vendor/collector said it is one of ten. He got the gun from Charles
Kenyon, Jr. I have read "Lugers at Random" and found no 9mm,
just 30 cal? Any input. Mike
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All the reliable reports are carbines in 7,65 mm (.30 cal.). The contemporary DWM cartridge catalog includes a carbine cartridge in 9mm, so the existence of the corresponding weapon must not be ruled out.
Ron is quite correct in the necessity of observing a "step" in the chamber. This is not a chamber marking, it is an actual machining characteristic of the chamber reaming and a requirement for authenticating early DWM 9mm pistols. (It must be noted here that I posses an assuredly counterfeit Old Model short-frame pistol in 9mm
with a stepped chamber, so authenticating a 9mm carbine must combine the presence of a stepped chamber with other recognized characteristics.)
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...mber+machining
--Dwight