Duane, I don’t know what to tell you on the reliability issue, maybe one of the Luger hawks around here can help on that. With my limited knowledge, I’m not the one to comment on feeding mechanics, or witness marks, or anything like that. Whenever I take mine apart for cleaning though, I note the Luger design sure is complex, and has a lot of moving parts for a service pistol, especially on the left side.
I plan on buying a shooter for Thor to refinish soon, but before I send it to him, I’m going to conduct a test. After making sure it works (with only ammo in the mag, and safety on!), I’m going to drop the Luger into a deep mud puddle, let it sit a few seconds, and then see if it will still fire. I bet jam city. I also thought about dropping it into a pile of thick dust on the left side, I bet the chances of it firing after that are also about zilch. Call me a pessimist.
On a side note, I’m a moderator at a German rifle forum, and we recently had a big brew-ha-ha of a protracted argument about the Russian captures. Some believe the RCs are still in essence “German” guns; others are obnoxiously vehement that they are now “Russian” guns. Purists tend to snort and curse these firearms, and condemn them as Russian, because they got reworked by them and are now “cold war” collectables. I go they are still German all the way, just on the principle of jus soli. What do people here think?
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