another new luger owner needs help !

Doubs · 07-01-2002, 03:06 PM

ESU, with the toggles in the mid-up position, if you grasp them and squeeze the trigger, you can lower the toggles and firing pin without snapping (dry firing) it. Or, if you like, simply squeeze the trigger and the toggles will snap down and the firing pin will also be lowered to an uncocked position. This, of course, is done without a cartridge in the chamber.

Some people in past years would carry the Luger with a cartridge in the chamber and the firing pin de-cocked. Raising the toggles to the mid-up position and lowering them again would **** the pistol. It was a dangerous practice and not one I'd suggest as the firing pin rested upon the primer.

Early Lugers had a long trigger bar that didn't permit opening the action while the safety was applied. To unload a chamber, the safety had to be disengaged and then the action was worked. Later Lugers... yours included.... had the trigger bar relieved to permit working the action while the safety was engaged and allowed removing a cartridge from the chamber with greater safety. The difference can easily be seen in pictures of early Lugers and later guns.

07-01-2002, 03:06 PM	#4
Doubs User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Byron, Georgia Posts: 1,742 Thanks: 826 Thanked 1,788 Times in 590 Posts	ESU, with the toggles in the mid-up position, if you grasp them and squeeze the trigger, you can lower the toggles and firing pin without snapping (dry firing) it. Or, if you like, simply squeeze the trigger and the toggles will snap down and the firing pin will also be lowered to an uncocked position. This, of course, is done without a cartridge in the chamber. Some people in past years would carry the Luger with a cartridge in the chamber and the firing pin de-cocked. Raising the toggles to the mid-up position and lowering them again would **** the pistol. It was a dangerous practice and not one I'd suggest as the firing pin rested upon the primer. Early Lugers had a long trigger bar that didn't permit opening the action while the safety was applied. To unload a chamber, the safety had to be disengaged and then the action was worked. Later Lugers... yours included.... had the trigger bar relieved to permit working the action while the safety was engaged and allowed removing a cartridge from the chamber with greater safety. The difference can easily be seen in pictures of early Lugers and later guns.