I Give Up on the P08

[Michael Zeleny]

Originally Posted by CJS57

My experience in shooting over a dozen original excellent condition Lugers both WWI and WWII commercial and military is that some shoot fine every time and some don't. I too gave up on "fixing" a bad one. Just find a "good" one and enjoy.

I have well over a dozen original excellent condition Lugers both WWI and WWII commercial and military. The only ones that shoot fine every time are the LP08 Artilleries and 7.65 Para guns, the DWM 1900 and three W+F 06/29 in the standard issue and National Match configurations. My present frustration is with trying to tune a P08 with a Wolff spring kit, where none of the available combinations makes for reliable cycling of WWB and its likes. I will try a box of NATO loads, but they don't make for a long term solution in a Luger.