Need help with 2 pistols

[Olle]

Originally Posted by Patronen

I'm not an expert on the lahti by any means and don't own one but remember reading somewhere that these guns have an accelerator which aids in cold weather functioning and that some frames or parts? have cracked as a result. Maybe someone else can shed more light on to that.

I don't believe the Swedish version has that feature. There is a common problem with cracking in these pistols though, and the main reason is said to be that many of them have been shot with the M/39B submachine gun ammo. This round is very common as surplus in Scandinavia, but it has a heavy jacket that builds more pressure than the pistol was intended for. The cracking problem is the reason why the M/40 was taken out of service, and temporarily replaced with the older M/07 until the Pistol 88 was adopted.