1937 s/42 p08

4 Scale · 01-20-2019, 12:06 PM

Your pistol looks very nice and WWII era Mauser Lugers like yours can make excellent shooters. I would second Don's comments, gunsmiths simply do not know Lugers well enough to fix issues like 'jams'.

I would suggest you take the pistol to the range, fire say 25 or 50 rounds through it, and take notes on exactly how many times and in what way it malfunctions. If you can take photos of the jams, and the cases that jam, that is also very valuable in diagnosing. They can be ammo sensitive so I'd suggest you try 124 gr. target loads (never put genuinely 'hot' ammo through a Luger).

The good news is Lugers can almost always be fixed so as to be reliable. And once fixed they tend to stay fixed. The more challenging ('bad'?) news is that it is a balanced system, with a basic design well over 100 years old, and there are lots of issues that can develop. So we need really detailed information on what is going on.

01-20-2019, 12:06 PM	#8
4 Scale User Join Date: Nov 2014 Posts: 544 Thanks: 194 Thanked 490 Times in 251 Posts	Your pistol looks very nice and WWII era Mauser Lugers like yours can make excellent shooters. I would second Don's comments, gunsmiths simply do not know Lugers well enough to fix issues like 'jams'. I would suggest you take the pistol to the range, fire say 25 or 50 rounds through it, and take notes on exactly how many times and in what way it malfunctions. If you can take photos of the jams, and the cases that jam, that is also very valuable in diagnosing. They can be ammo sensitive so I'd suggest you try 124 gr. target loads (never put genuinely 'hot' ammo through a Luger). The good news is Lugers can almost always be fixed so as to be reliable. And once fixed they tend to stay fixed. The more challenging ('bad'?) news is that it is a balanced system, with a basic design well over 100 years old, and there are lots of issues that can develop. So we need really detailed information on what is going on.