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Originally Posted by STEINBVG
Is it steel case ammo on the picture? Was/is it used on Lugers?
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I think it is steel cased ammo. The date on the one box is 44 and they may have been re-packed. My brother bought these for me at a gun show not long after I bought my Mauser P.08 because he insisted I needed some period WW2 ammo to go with my WW2 Luger.
I believe the steel cased ammo caused extraction/ functioning issues in the P.08, prompting the Wehrmacht to try to reserve brass cased ammo for them. Apparently the P.38 was less finicky. But I imagine in the heat of battle any ammo, even ammo that jammed, was better than nothing...