My latest P08

ithacaartist · 02-11-2013, 09:30 AM

Correct; it's part of the serial number; yours, therefore, is 3288m. Include this full number in all related paperwork for your Luger!
Barrels are typically serial numbered, along with many of the small parts. I think there is a list in the FAQs of what whould be numbered, and how--(commercials differ from military).
The 8.82 is the measured I.D. in mm of the bore, between lands of the rifling, and this number, or one close (by a .01 mm or so), is most often found on a 9 mm pistol. There is another system of indication of this dimension used on early pistols. Someone else may explain what the other numbers are based on, and when the feature was changed from that early style to the type of numbers you're seeing on yours.

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ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,374 Thanks: 7,447 Thanked 2,613 Times in 1,380 Posts	Correct; it's part of the serial number; yours, therefore, is 3288m. Include this full number in all related paperwork for your Luger! Barrels are typically serial numbered, along with many of the small parts. I think there is a list in the FAQs of what whould be numbered, and how--(commercials differ from military). The 8.82 is the measured I.D. in mm of the bore, between lands of the rifling, and this number, or one close (by a .01 mm or so), is most often found on a 9 mm pistol. There is another system of indication of this dimension used on early pistols. Someone else may explain what the other numbers are based on, and when the feature was changed from that early style to the type of numbers you're seeing on yours. __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894