what caliber?

[Edward Tinker]

Originally Posted by roughrider

I have a 1923 Luger that I acquired recently and bought 9mm ammo for it. But it seems the shell will not load into the chamber all the way. I took the front end of the bullet and tried to insert it into the front end of the barrel and it seems too bit to fit. Does this gun require a different size bullet? puzzled.

the 1923 designation is an old one - and if going by that, most of those commercial guns were sold and made in 30 luger (7.65mm). The seller should have known that