1900 Bulgarian Lugers

[Ron Wood]

At the last data listing that I have, Dwight had recorded four M1900 Bulgarian Lugers that had been converted to 9mm. I wonder if the stronger 1902 type spring for 9mm was also installed when they were converted? Almost had to have been changed to make them function reliably and not cause excess wear from the more powerful cartridge.

Nearly all of the M1906 Bulgarian Lugers were converted to 9mm when the M1908 Luger was purchased by the Bulgarians. So unalterd M1906 Bulgarians are nearly as hard to find as M1900.

I doubt that there are any public copies of these references available. The Görtz/Sturgess books are too new and expensive for public library acquisition so far, but I expect some of the larger well-funded libraries would have them soon. Dwights data base has not been published in a book but it is available as a .pdf download...unfortunately I do not have the link recorded.