Hugh--The U.S. 1907 Test Trials
Hugh, I no longer own any of the Luger reference books that most of the forum seems to have on their shelves but I seem to recall that the 1907 test trials were detailed in Datig's book "The Luger Pistol."
If the details are not there, I know that they are in print. If not in Luger references, they are surely in one of the references on the 1911 Colt. I remember reading the information on the trials as a young man, and was absolutely agast that anyone could treat fine firearms that way. There was talk of multi-thousand round endurance testing with mud, salt water, wet sand, and dropping the gun with a round chambered into a concrete pit from 6 feet to see if the safety would function under those circumstances! It is no wonder that some test pieces were scrapped when the testing was completed.
Perhaps someone on the forum who collect both Lugers and Colt 1911's has the test trial documentation or statistics they could share with the forum.
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