Gunboard article on the P14 Navy

HerrKaiser · 08-02-2018, 05:56 PM

I don’t understand the Luger badmouth. I remember watching the YouTube video where those guys do mud tests on weapons. When it came to Lugers, both his WW2 Mauser and his 1916 DWM were dropped and almost unrecognizable due to the mud, yet they fired two full magazines without any failures. The 1911...not so much. My 1911 is a modern one and very robust, but I think a lot of the bubbas who Modified their Lugers for their own purposes gave all of them a bad name. There don’t seem to be many records of German infantry complaining about their Lugers in the field during either war. I’m still of the conviction that the only reasons they were dropped we’re because the P. 38 was much cheaper to produce and because Luger parts weren’t always easily interchangeable between different pistols.

08-02-2018, 05:56 PM	#5
HerrKaiser User Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: South Carolina Posts: 889 Thanks: 837 Thanked 898 Times in 435 Posts	I don’t understand the Luger badmouth. I remember watching the YouTube video where those guys do mud tests on weapons. When it came to Lugers, both his WW2 Mauser and his 1916 DWM were dropped and almost unrecognizable due to the mud, yet they fired two full magazines without any failures. The 1911...not so much. My 1911 is a modern one and very robust, but I think a lot of the bubbas who Modified their Lugers for their own purposes gave all of them a bad name. There don’t seem to be many records of German infantry complaining about their Lugers in the field during either war. I’m still of the conviction that the only reasons they were dropped we’re because the P. 38 was much cheaper to produce and because Luger parts weren’t always easily interchangeable between different pistols. __________________ -QM