Skeeter Skelton on Lugers

lundbaek · 02-15-2006, 07:23 AM

Thanks, Dwight, for your reply. I look at most pistols, especially of WW1 and earlier vintage, from the standpoint of a machinist and mechanical and manufacturing engineer, as well as that of a shooter. I've only owned one Luger in my life, a 1916 Erfurt with a trigger pull that would make serious accuracy very difficult, especially under stress. The sideplate was not original to the gun, and that necessitated some remedial work (build-up of the whateveryacallit that the L-shaped piece pressed down on when the trigger is pulled) for the breech block to come back into battery with the firing mechanism cocked. I think I can see that the P08 would be inherently more accurate than the P38 for the same reason as the Nambu, the Lahti and other pistols where the barrel is fixed to the receiver or frame. I haven't touched or looked seriously at a Luger since 1962, except for one carried by an Israeli soldier sitting by me on a train in 1973. For some reason my interest in the Luger is aroused now.

02-15-2006, 07:23 AM	#10
lundbaek User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Mesa, Arizona Posts: 20 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Thanks, Dwight, for your reply. I look at most pistols, especially of WW1 and earlier vintage, from the standpoint of a machinist and mechanical and manufacturing engineer, as well as that of a shooter. I've only owned one Luger in my life, a 1916 Erfurt with a trigger pull that would make serious accuracy very difficult, especially under stress. The sideplate was not original to the gun, and that necessitated some remedial work (build-up of the whateveryacallit that the L-shaped piece pressed down on when the trigger is pulled) for the breech block to come back into battery with the firing mechanism cocked. I think I can see that the P08 would be inherently more accurate than the P38 for the same reason as the Nambu, the Lahti and other pistols where the barrel is fixed to the receiver or frame. I haven't touched or looked seriously at a Luger since 1962, except for one carried by an Israeli soldier sitting by me on a train in 1973. For some reason my interest in the Luger is aroused now.