Not a Test...

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A few weeks ago, while visiting Jerry and Ellie Burney in Yuma, Jerry asked if I had seen his gorgeous 1906 AE. Of course, when two Luger Heads get together, there is the ever present challenge of "You show me yours and I'll show you mine."

Mine happened to be a pristine 1900 AE #5643 so we had side by side a 1900 and a 1906 AE and we all know what followed. I had never shot either of my 1900's for fear of the fatal main-spring breakage turning my gun into an $800.00 display piece and JB said he had never shot a 1900 either, so off to the desert to go back to back.

After loading 4 rounds into each beauty, we shot the '06 first, then the '00 afterward. WHAT A DIFFERENCE! The flat-springed 1900 was smooth as a baby's behind and well worth the nervouse pull of the trigger.

We both enjoyed the experiment and came away enlightened as to why GL used the flat spring in the first place (new technology aside.) I enjoyed the test and I beleive JB did also, then it was back to reality.

Jack Hiles
Mesa AZ
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