Evaluating a Luger

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Originally Posted by lugerholsterrepair

But yeah..only ONE + on each extra. If you kept adding +'s on each extra you would have a bunch on the 4th mag! I suspect that if an extra was acting up badly enough the Soldat would take it out and lose it in the mud. But I don't know if the Germans repaired mags or what? I think they were considered fairly expendable.

I guess they would have needed G.T.!!

So, a mag with two "+"s would have been messed with? Other than signifying that issued mags had been tried/tested with each gun they accompany, I don't see much effect in their being numbered at all. It seems reasonable that in use, they were lost and found, discarded and swapped, because most mags seem to work in most Lugers, all else being equal. I can't picture checking serial numbers on mags while someone is throwing lead your way and you are trying to return the favor. Seems to me the mag numbering can be chalked up to the German near-obsession with organization, record keeping, etc.