Zorba's P.38

Zorba · 01-24-2015, 12:02 AM

Spreewerk P.38 'v' block (Oct 1944):

Took 'er apart, cleaned the bbl, oiled everything, blah, blah. Bore is even better than I had thought. I knew it had a small amount of frost, but once I got at least 12 years of dust/crud out of the bbl, the frosting is almost non-existent. I have to really be looking for it to see it, otherwise the bore is a mirror.

Ran some snap caps through, worked fine on the mag that came with the gun; but the pair of "used but good condition" mags need new springs, one of them FTFs every rd, the other only occasionally. Pretty much what I expected there.

Going to the range on Sunday, but am not expecting to take this one (even though my wife is all hot and bothered to shoot it - and she doesn't like semi-autos!) as my Wolff recoil springs are on back order and I have zero idea of how good/bad the existing ones are. Probably just fine, but I don't want to find out the hard way that they weren't and break something - I've been told that P.38s can have bad things happen to them if the springs aren't up to snuff. Wife says "Fine, we'll just go to the range again next weekend!!".

If she somehow decides that she wants to "steal" the pistol, I'll have to buy her another one as I don't want to shoot this one very much/often!

01-24-2015, 12:02 AM	#1
Zorba User Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Merritt Island, Fl Posts: 952 Thanks: 777 Thanked 528 Times in 290 Posts	Zorba's P.38 Spreewerk P.38 'v' block (Oct 1944): Took 'er apart, cleaned the bbl, oiled everything, blah, blah. Bore is even better than I had thought. I knew it had a small amount of frost, but once I got at least 12 years of dust/crud out of the bbl, the frosting is almost non-existent. I have to really be looking for it to see it, otherwise the bore is a mirror. Ran some snap caps through, worked fine on the mag that came with the gun; but the pair of "used but good condition" mags need new springs, one of them FTFs every rd, the other only occasionally. Pretty much what I expected there. Going to the range on Sunday, but am not expecting to take this one (even though my wife is all hot and bothered to shoot it - and she doesn't like semi-autos!) as my Wolff recoil springs are on back order and I have zero idea of how good/bad the existing ones are. Probably just fine, but I don't want to find out the hard way that they weren't and break something - I've been told that P.38s can have bad things happen to them if the springs aren't up to snuff. Wife says "Fine, we'll just go to the range again next weekend!!". If she somehow decides that she wants to "steal" the pistol, I'll have to buy her another one as I don't want to shoot this one very much/often!