First Luger purchase and need guidance

ZZANG1847 · 06-13-2019, 01:34 PM

Hello everyone,
I've recently purchased a Mauser Luger made in 1937 and been having few problems ever since.
As a first luger owner, I'm literally lost and need some spiritual guidance.

When I bought the pistol, everything appeared to be in a working condition and couldn't find anything wrong.
However, once I brought it home and disassembled/cleaned/lubed the pistol, it started showing some weird issues.

Before purchase:
- Magazine didn't drop free, only going down few inches before manually pulling by hand.
- Toggle was easy to manipulate, requiring not much strength.

After clean/lube:
- Magazine drops free, and once fully inserted it can still move upward a little bit more (magazine base plate doesn't touch grip frame).
- Toggle is very hard to pull, almost to the point where I need to push barrel against soft surface to manipulate.

At the shooting range it had plenty of malfunctions, and they were usually toggle randomly locking back even though there are still rounds left in the magazine. I have used both 115gr and 124gr 9mms and some functioned better than others but none of them showed 100% reliability.

I'm thinking that malfunctions are caused by the old magazine, but I have no idea how toggle became very hard to pull by simple field strip an cleaning. Maybe I assembled the pistol back wrong? Perhaps there are areas that I didn't clean that caused this problem? I'm lost and have no idea what to do now.

Thank you for your help.

06-13-2019, 01:34 PM	#1
ZZANG1847 New User Join Date: Jun 2019 Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post	First Luger purchase and need guidance Hello everyone, I've recently purchased a Mauser Luger made in 1937 and been having few problems ever since. As a first luger owner, I'm literally lost and need some spiritual guidance. When I bought the pistol, everything appeared to be in a working condition and couldn't find anything wrong. However, once I brought it home and disassembled/cleaned/lubed the pistol, it started showing some weird issues. Before purchase: - Magazine didn't drop free, only going down few inches before manually pulling by hand. - Toggle was easy to manipulate, requiring not much strength. After clean/lube: - Magazine drops free, and once fully inserted it can still move upward a little bit more (magazine base plate doesn't touch grip frame). - Toggle is very hard to pull, almost to the point where I need to push barrel against soft surface to manipulate. At the shooting range it had plenty of malfunctions, and they were usually toggle randomly locking back even though there are still rounds left in the magazine. I have used both 115gr and 124gr 9mms and some functioned better than others but none of them showed 100% reliability. I'm thinking that malfunctions are caused by the old magazine, but I have no idea how toggle became very hard to pull by simple field strip an cleaning. Maybe I assembled the pistol back wrong? Perhaps there are areas that I didn't clean that caused this problem? I'm lost and have no idea what to do now. Thank you for your help.