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Unread 08-05-2012, 03:40 PM   #11
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Postino - The web site you posted, http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/histor...ge_History.htm has a table comparing the dimensions of the various precursors to the .45 ACP. Excellent write up on the history of the .45 round. It shows once and for all that the 1907 field trials in which the .45 Luger competed did not utilize the .45 ACP round. If the Aberman .45 Luger can be proven to have been sold by the Springfield Armory in 1913 and was indeed a pistol brought to the trial by Luger, it must have been re-barreled either before or after it was sold and four to five years after the trials were complete.

Lugerdoc - Alas, and - sigh - you may be right on the brown grips. Although my 42 Code falls in the correct serial number range where approx. 3% of the production pistols reportedly received brown grips, the toggle pin is nu-numbered and although the barrel shows the correct serial number and gauge mark, a close look at the index mark indicates that it may be a replacement. Interestingly, a very close examination of the front sight fudicial mark shows that the blade has been moved ever so slightly. I doubt that anyone other than the Mauser factory or a field armorer would have sighted in the weapon that precisely, so maybe the gun is a legitimate war-time field or factory repair. On the other hand, maybe just a hodgepodge of parts.

Would a field-replaced barrel at an armory level have been marked with the pistol SN and gauge marks?
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