Why non matching magazines?

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Originally Posted by cma22inc

You see this same thing with most of the Kar98 rifles as well.

When the rifles were being surrended the bolt went in one pile and the rifle another.

They made no attempt to match them back up. The battle field pickups on the other hand remained all matching.

The russian capture guns were striped down to parts and refurbised and then reassembled with no regard to matching up the numbers.

I would think with lugers there are many other factors that would cause a mag mismatch as well.

Matt,
yes, this makes sense.