MK

Good answers guys, and close too.


It's appears that many otherwise pristine Lugers have firing pins, firing pin springs and the firing pin bore in the breechblock clogged with dried lubricant/rust.


I noticed this while checking out some new pistols I received from 3 different sources. The pistols are all very nice to mint pistols except it appears that other than looking to see if the firing pin matched no further attention was given to this area of the pistol.

One 99% pistol in particular had a very fouled firing pin though the pistol appears to have been fired very little and has a mirror bright bore. In another ten years it wouldn't have suprised me if this pistol's firing pin had rusted in place. I'm not sure that it is rust as there was no damage to the parts and the brown stuff cleaned out completely, but it sure looks like rust. Maybe it's just old grease.

Three out of six pistols were like this.

Since these are collector grade pistols that are never shot you would never get an indication that things aren't copesetic with the firing pin unless you actually take the things out.

While I'm sure none of you neglect anything on your Lugers it appears that not everyone is so careful.


Mike