Was the P.08 overbuilt???

Dean · 10-26-2003, 07:36 PM

Perhaps having the threaded barrel was a design choice from the outset. The anticipation of having a common receiver with variable length of barrel options.

In any case, I suspect that the barrel alone is designed sufficiently to contain the pressures encountered. The strength of the receiver is accounted as "extra margin of safety" from a design point of view. The reason I say this is by comparison to barrels in other handguns that I own. Specifically, my CZ52 which fires the hot (1600fps) 7.62x25 round has a chamber wall thickness of about .100" thick, the remaining part of the barrel is .08" thick.

10-26-2003, 07:36 PM	#8
Dean User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: PA Posts: 132 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Perhaps having the threaded barrel was a design choice from the outset. The anticipation of having a common receiver with variable length of barrel options. In any case, I suspect that the barrel alone is designed sufficiently to contain the pressures encountered. The strength of the receiver is accounted as "extra margin of safety" from a design point of view. The reason I say this is by comparison to barrels in other handguns that I own. Specifically, my CZ52 which fires the hot (1600fps) 7.62x25 round has a chamber wall thickness of about .100" thick, the remaining part of the barrel is .08" thick. __________________ Carpe Diem, Parabellum