General question re: reliability and failure feedback

Frank H. · 07-16-2004, 02:35 AM

Thanks for letting me draw a bit from all of your experience since I'm new to shooting Lugers (3 now and counting!)

I know there's bound to be a "big" variance here among the condition of Lugers, how badly mismatched / what kind of armorer work was done by whom in the past etc, but in general:

If a Luger is cleaned and lubed properly, correct ammo to prevent mis-feeds etc, if the mag's geometry is right and the spring is proper etc, are malfunctions and breakages pretty rare?

This gets into the topic of shooting / not shooting a nice collection piece, but that aside, I was just curious in general about durability and if there are failures what kind of failures tend to happen (not counting mag & ammo correctable issues).

My Ruger 9mm's are "tanks" without the grace and beauty of the Lugers, but they'd probably run for 20,000 rounds if maintained well without a serious mechanical failure. (But how much fun is driving a tank...)

Would I be thinking somewhat correctly to run a couple of mags through these guns, just every couple of months, take it a bit easy on them?

Thanks for your thoughts, and in my case as of now I've got a VOPO 1913 receiver - S/42 rework, a 1917 DWM Artillery (the "passed off as original" but nicely restored one), and a 1973 Mauser 6" barrel '06 9mm.

Frank H. in L.A.

07-16-2004, 02:35 AM	#1
Frank H. User Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon, south of Portland Posts: 84 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	General question re: reliability and failure feedback Thanks for letting me draw a bit from all of your experience since I'm new to shooting Lugers (3 now and counting!) I know there's bound to be a "big" variance here among the condition of Lugers, how badly mismatched / what kind of armorer work was done by whom in the past etc, but in general: If a Luger is cleaned and lubed properly, correct ammo to prevent mis-feeds etc, if the mag's geometry is right and the spring is proper etc, are malfunctions and breakages pretty rare? This gets into the topic of shooting / not shooting a nice collection piece, but that aside, I was just curious in general about durability and if there are failures what kind of failures tend to happen (not counting mag & ammo correctable issues). My Ruger 9mm's are "tanks" without the grace and beauty of the Lugers, but they'd probably run for 20,000 rounds if maintained well without a serious mechanical failure. (But how much fun is driving a tank...) Would I be thinking somewhat correctly to run a couple of mags through these guns, just every couple of months, take it a bit easy on them? Thanks for your thoughts, and in my case as of now I've got a VOPO 1913 receiver - S/42 rework, a 1917 DWM Artillery (the "passed off as original" but nicely restored one), and a 1973 Mauser 6" barrel '06 9mm. Frank H. in L.A.