Question re: Commercial Barrel/Receiver

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by DonVoigt

I suspect it is a scrubbed military receiver; perhaps the C/Ns are from Suhl and added in the 1920s?

Originally Posted by Dwight Gruber

Most likely an unfinished (no date, no hardness acceptance) leftover from LP08 production, ended up in commercial parts stock. C/Ns are Berlin commercial office proofs.
--Dwight

The barreled receiver came today; it does have a scrubbed chamber. I suppose it would have had a date, but it's gone now.

Rest of it looks good; no buffing, no loss of sharp edges. Fits on my P08 frame OK. Barrel is shot. I removed the barrel and cleaned up the receiver.

Tomorrow I'll start on a 140mm/145mm barrel, in either .256 or .22. I took Ed's pic of his Navy and blew it up to life-size and measured the barrel length; 140mm to 145mm is what I get. I'll likely keep the P08 minor/major taper dimensions.

I'm thinking ~140mm for the 256 and 120mm for the .22. Subject to review.