[ithacaartist]

Wayne is correct, as you can see. I've always thought ironic that the smaller caliber is the larger pistol of this series.

Antonio is also correct, but only the frame and barrel extension will interchange.

Geoff, if by fitting an extractor you mean you're making your own, the reproduction extractors I had made are still in stock. They're crisp, accurate copies of the originals. PM if you need one, in order to save trouble and frustration.

Someone just asked me this very question off the forum. Apparently the KGP 690 was never imported to the U.S., although I have seen exactly ONE offered at an auction on Proxibid in the past 9 years.

I've found that for the 8mm K ammo that the KGP 690 is chambered for, the K stands for "Knall" in German = "bang" auf English. There is an 8mm Kurz (short) rifle round, a bottleneck shell. The Erma uses a shorter, straight-walled case.

These blank pistols came with a gas diffuser that screws into the muzzle, and used when firing either CS gas or teargas cartridges--another handy feature.

Back to the grips... I've discovered that the walnut grips for the earlier, full size/weight La-22s and Ep-22s contain within them--you just have to remove the excess, as Michelangelo would say. The tricky part, the tab at the top of each grip panel that tucks into a slot in the frame, is already there, so you'd line up the tabs, with plastic grip and the larger wooden one back to back, trace around the rest, and you have your profile. The rest is just contouring and extending the checkered pattern back to the edges.

The definitive work on Erma history and production, authored by Holger Schlemier, is available in its original German, and an English translation should be arriving any day now.