Making a .45 Luger

Alx · 03-11-2007, 11:48 PM

There was a gentleman at a gunshow here in Nashville, who made a Luger in .45 out of two German P08's. I looked it over carefully and it was a thing of wonder. Home-made magazine, from scratch. The chamber was milled to .45 but lower and not on its original center, and the firing pin was also off center, to accomodate the larger round.
Although it looked "normal" in most all ways, everything changes with the longer and fatter round, and the toggle train has to be longer too.
He told me that there was one problem with the gun he made, and it would not operate properly as it is, without further work. He said the toggle joint was not past center and would not stay locked up before its frame ramps impact, so that it was a blow-back situation, opening the toggle too soon after detonation. Why he had not yet re-worked it , I can't say, because it would have been relatively easy to file down the bottom of the toggle where it rests on the receiver to where it was past center, but he had just left it as is, as of then.

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03-11-2007, 11:48 PM	#19
Alx User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Nashville, Tennessee area Posts: 263 Thanks: 5 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	There was a gentleman at a gunshow here in Nashville, who made a Luger in .45 out of two German P08's. I looked it over carefully and it was a thing of wonder. Home-made magazine, from scratch. The chamber was milled to .45 but lower and not on its original center, and the firing pin was also off center, to accomodate the larger round. Although it looked "normal" in most all ways, everything changes with the longer and fatter round, and the toggle train has to be longer too. He told me that there was one problem with the gun he made, and it would not operate properly as it is, without further work. He said the toggle joint was not past center and would not stay locked up before its frame ramps impact, so that it was a blow-back situation, opening the toggle too soon after detonation. Why he had not yet re-worked it , I can't say, because it would have been relatively easy to file down the bottom of the toggle where it rests on the receiver to where it was past center, but he had just left it as is, as of then.