Borchardt-Luger Controversy

[Kyrie]

Hi Unspellable!

[quote]Originally posted by unspellable:
<strong>I think slight changes in the spring lever geometry would allow any reasonable grip angle. Here is my take on how we ended up with the angle we have.

The Borchardt cartridges case is more or less straight from head to shoulder and such a cartridge will stack nicely in a vertical magazine, ala Borchardt C93 and Mauser C96.
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Iâ??m going to digress a bit here, or more properly regress to the original topic of the controversy and bad blood between Borchardt and DWM. The beginning of this antipathy may predate the entrance of Georg Luger, and have begun with DWM either furnishing (or permitting - itâ??s unclear) the use of the 7.65 Borchardt cartridges in the development of the Mauser C96. This was apparently done without the knowledge or permission of Hugo Borchardt, and without any kind of compensation. There are at least hints in the literature that Borchardt was most unhappy that DWM permitted his cartridge to be used in the development of a competing design - especially a competing design that was to be so successful!

By the time Georg Luger came along to improve the Borchardt pistol, Hugo Borchardt may have already have had a jaundiced view of the integrity of DWM and been primed to perceive any action by DWM to change his design as the first step in stealing it away from him. His reluctance to let Luger change his design may well have been due more to his mistrust of DWM than to any fits of â??inventor egoâ?�.

Itâ??s an interesting line of speculation :-)

Warm regards,

Kyrie