WW1 Luger found on Somme battlefields on Saturday

[A.Mifsin]

Originally Posted by suum cuique

You could put in a pencil til the breech block = approx. 10,2cm.
If it's loaded just 7,4cm.
10,2 cm
- 0,19cm
= 7,3 cm

(a regular nowaday FMJ 9mm luger cartridge is 19mm long, WW1 ammo was slightly shorter)

Am I correct that .19cm is the case, so you have to add the bullet, which give and take is .30cm. overall.

Alf