New Member with First Luger P08

[DonVoigt]

Originally Posted by mrerick

IIRC, only the Mauser side plates are numbered inside. This DWM would have come with a side plate that wasn't numbered inside. It might have had an inspection mark.

The plate on your gun now looks a bit like it was force fit to the gun. There is apparent grinding that isn't square on the front edge of the plate.

As long as the rest of the linkage wasn't "adjusted" to make the plate fit, you should be able to get a DWM plate to properly fit. This is hand work and can take some experience and skill to do properly.

Do download the FAQs. It is a good reference.

Mark and others,
up until two days ago I would have agreed with you.
However in vetting a 1916 DWM on the "other" board, it came to light and in truth, there are numbers on the inside in the place shown.

Why, to me it is obvious that it is the same reason for the mauser numbers on the inside, - a lot of more than 100 side plates would have more than one number 1, or 10 or what ever.

Please refer to this thread, and do read all the way to the end; though this tidbit is revealed in post #9.

Keoki pointed this obscure piece of info out, maybe he will chime in here. I was amazed that it never came up before in the time I've been studying and reading everything I could find on Lugers!

Here is the link:
http://luger.gunboards.com/showthrea...ently-for-sale