Translate Unit Markings, Please

Patrick · 03-16-2001, 02:52 PM

The German police nearly always had a sear safety on their Lugers. It is a spring that is riveted onto the sear and held in place with a small pin. It stops the receiver being fired when the gun has been dismantled. Even if the sear safety (called a Schiwy) is missing, the pin hole on top of the sear might be there. This would be proof that yours is a police Luger. Schutzpolizei was the standard police force. The organizational unit was the Hundertschaft (1 hundred men). KÃ?Â¶slin is a town in what is now Poland but was then part of Germany. There is a very good reference book on Luger markings:German Small Arms Markings by Joachim GÃ?Â¶rtz and Don L. Bryans (Walsworth Publishing Co., Marceline, MO). GÃ?Â¶rtz is one of the two leading experts on Lugers. Patrick

03-16-2001, 02:52 PM	#6
Patrick User Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 241 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Translate Unit Markings, Please The German police nearly always had a sear safety on their Lugers. It is a spring that is riveted onto the sear and held in place with a small pin. It stops the receiver being fired when the gun has been dismantled. Even if the sear safety (called a Schiwy) is missing, the pin hole on top of the sear might be there. This would be proof that yours is a police Luger. Schutzpolizei was the standard police force. The organizational unit was the Hundertschaft (1 hundred men). KÃ?Â¶slin is a town in what is now Poland but was then part of Germany. There is a very good reference book on Luger markings:German Small Arms Markings by Joachim GÃ?Â¶rtz and Don L. Bryans (Walsworth Publishing Co., Marceline, MO). GÃ?Â¶rtz is one of the two leading experts on Lugers. Patrick