Hello Everyone. Just wanted to let you know, I have replaced the barrel on my luger three times in the past. The first time it was a real backbreaker, but after that it has been a fairly simple task. I have told this once before in the past two weeks or so. When I first got my luger it had a shot-out 30cal barrel and the fellow I bought it from gave me a new repro barrel he had purchased for it. After contacting all the local gunsmiths, I found out I was on my own (not to mention that I had no money to pay anyone to do it ). So, I did some studying on how to make a tool to hold the receiver without marring it. The first was made from a peice of old wood, and quickly snapped under pressure. The second I made a bit larger and out of better wood. After lots of soaking with WD-40 and some pain in my back and shoulders, it broke free. I installed the 9mm 4inch barrel I had gotten with the gun, it required a tiny bit of work on the shoulder to allw the extractor to line up, but the headspace came out perfect (pure luck was my guess). I soon tired of the 4inch and wanted to try something different so I ordered a 16inch from GPC. Took little to no effort to remove the barrel this time. Repeated same procedure with the shoulder of the 16inch and again near perfect headspace! (Still considered it to be luck) I then decided on a artillery barrel. I bought a 8inch repro on ebay but when I received it I noticed right away it was not going to work, so it was quickly resold. (remember, when I was doing all this I was new to Lugers and had no idea about the differences in luger types but did have quite a bit of gunsmithing experience on other types of firearms.) Finally after much though, I ordered a GPC 6inch barrel. Again, I used the same wooden tool and easily removed the barrel and lined up the extractor, checked the headspace and amazingly, my luck had held out! I have since sold all my other barrels and decided I like the one I have. I am sure that it can not be removed by hand and it hasnt moved in over a year now, so I got it on there good. I beleive that over the years they have seized, but could have been swapped very easily in their younger years. NOW, I am not saying everyone should try it! I was risking my luger and mabey some fingers in the process of swapping the barrel the first time. I cant stress this enough, "IF YOU DO SWAP BARRELS, BE SURE THE HEADSPACE IS CORRECT!" If you dont, you may find yourself in the hospital or the afterlife when you try to fire it! I am no expert, I am only telling you of my experience in the matter.
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