Spanish 9mm Ammunition

[Sieger]

Originally posted by David6FL
It is 9x19 and just to be safe I am assuming it is corrosive.

Hi:

That being established, I read a test report, back in the 1960s, about "machine gun ammo" used during WWII. The article concluded that there was no ammo made during the war that couldn't be safely fired in a pistol. I doubt, however, that your Spanish ammo was part of that test.

Are the primers crimped in? If not, this could simply be commercial pistol ammo.

I quess you will have to fire some and find out. I wouldn't fire it in your Luger until you could establish that it wasn't too hot for it.

Some name brand chinese ammo I tried in my late war Mauser was much, much too hot for the Parabellum system. This stuff was loaded to +P+ specs .

In my experience, Lugers don't function will with 124 gr. ammo with a velocity much over 1,100 feet per second