1937 Luger Serial Number
Used: P08 Luger 1937 S42 Mauser 9mm Single-Action Semi-Auto Pistol, Matching Serial Numbers 9202, 4 blue-steel barrel, blue-steel for sale by Village Pawn and Gun.
- Sep 16, 2014 Mauser Luger 1937 S/42. Put detailed pics on the Jan Stills site and the serial number and they will tell you if it is correct for this piece.
- Mauser S/42 Code 1937 Luger. 9mm caliber pistol. Made in 1937. A very fine gun with 93-94% of the original finish. This is one of the later guns that still had the straw parts. Shortly after this gun. Matching serial numbers except magazine which is a correct “FXO P08” marked extruded magazine. Bore is very good plus.
Thanks to both of you, now! Mrerick on the first picture the serial is 84XX with a 'U'.
German Luger Serial Numbers
Does that mean there was up to 10,000 made in the 'A' suffix and up to 10,000 in the 'B' suffix, etc, etc? Still on the first picture there is a number on the bottom of the barrel, 2860 with a 'N'.
Would this barrel be for luger serial number 2860 N or what? Also guys I broke an ejector today firing my lugers. Where would be a good place to purchase a replacement and should I look out for something when I do get one? Does one ejector fit all?
It depends on the manufacturer, but generally that is how the military serial numbers are sequenced. I don't have my books here, but I believe that one of the Imperial manufacturers may have started over with each new year. I know that this happened with one of the P.38 manufacturers. The first 10,000 would have run from 1 to 10,000 with no letter suffix (ns). Then 1a would have followed through 10000a.
Then 1b through 10000b. The barrel (and possibly the entire receiver which should have the numeric portion of the s/n on it's left side if it's a military receiver) don't match the frame on pistol 1. The 2860n was made for another pistol with a frame s/n 2860n. There are two receiver/frame lengths.
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The length depends on the period/model of the Luger. I think that the ejector length is the same on both, but this needs to be verified. Tom Heller (LugerDoc on this forum) often can help provide these parts. I'd get in touch with him. Still on the first picture there is a number on the bottom of the barrel, 2860 with a 'N'.
Would this barrel be for luger serial number 2860 N or what? Also guys I broke an ejector today firing my lugers. Where would be a good place to purchase a replacement and should I look out for something when I do get one? Does one ejector fit all?Yes, the barrel is from another luger, making that one a mismatch.
You said you broke a retractor shooting luger(s) is the other one matching? Which one did you break? 75 year old small parts are the first to show metal fatigue, if one of your guns is complete and matching you may want to put it away and shoot the mismatch. Each luger should have the serial on the side, the frame and the barrell and they should be the same all three places. Only the frame will bear the suffix letter. More photos of all the numbers and proofs and the complete serials on both would help people better comment on what you have.
Cutaway drawing of the Luger design from Georg Luger's 1904 US patent One of the first, the Luger was designed to use a toggle-lock action, which uses a jointed arm to lock, as opposed to the slide actions of almost every other semi-automatic pistol. After a round is fired, the barrel and toggle assembly (both locked together at this point) travel rearward due to recoil. After moving roughly 13 mm (0.5 in) rearward, the toggle strikes a cam built into the frame, causing the knee joint to hinge and the toggle and breech assembly to unlock.
Fore hand arms company serial numbers. The serial numbers for their NEW MODEL HAMMERLESS DOUBLE run from serial number 001in 1890 to 3,301+ in 1902. Forehand serial numbers for their NEW MODEL HAMMER DOUBLE run from serial number 001 in 1892 to 11,001+ in 1902.
At this point the barrel impacts the frame and stops its rearward movement, but the toggle assembly continues moving (bending the knee joint) due to momentum, extracting the spent casing from the chamber and ejecting it. The toggle and breech assembly subsequently travel forward under spring tension and the next round from the magazine is loaded into the chamber. The entire sequence occurs in a fraction of a second. This mechanism works well for higher-pressure cartridges, but cartridges loaded to a lower pressure can cause the pistol to because they do not generate enough recoil to work the action fully. This results in either the breech block not clearing the top cartridge of the magazine, or becoming jammed open on the cartridge's base. While this phenomenon of malfunctions with under-powered cartridges can and does occur with Browning-type and other pistol designs, it is true that the Luger tends to be quite sensitive to changes in cartridges made to specifications other than the high-quality German-made brass-cased ammunition it was designed to use exclusively. In World War I, as were found to be effective in, experiments with converting various types of pistols to ( Reihenfeuerpistolen, literally 'row-fire pistols' or 'consecutive fire pistols') were conducted, including the P08 pistol.
Like the, which would many years later be manufactured in a selective-fire version (Schnellfeuer) or Reihenfeuerpistolen, the Luger proved to have an excessive in full-automatic mode. Luger pistols were manufactured in Germany and Switzerland to very close tolerances and exacting standards using the highest quality materials of the day, and original pistols were known for having a long service life. The design requires hand fitting of certain parts for proper operation. Assembling the gun using a sideplate from another pistol, for example, may prevent the sear from working, making the pistol inoperable. The Luger barrel, which was rigidly fixed to the barrel extension and carried the front sight, provided excellent accuracy. Praised the Luger's 145° (55° for Americans) grip angle and duplicated it in his.
The famous handgun author and revolver enthusiast observed that it was partly due to poor experiences with Lugers constructed from salvaged parts that the design had been unfairly criticized by gun writers over the years as unreliable. Keith noted that the Luger was a 'natural pointer', one of the most accurate of all autoloading pistols - particularly at long ranges - and reminded critics that the Luger was the choice of more nations as their military sidearm than any other contemporary pistol or revolver. Luger 04 Pistol of the.: Armed forces used Lugers after 1945, supplied from the French controlled Mauser factory. Walter, John. The Luger Story. Greenhill Books.: Used Luger pistols in a semi-official capacity taken from disarmed.: The French occupied and operated the Mauser factory 1945–46, then seized remaining Mauser parts stocks to assemble approximately 4,000 Luger pistols for French forces.: Used by the and agents.: Dutch arms factories made Lugers in 1912 for use by the. Other contracts were completed for the Dutch Navy commencing in 1923, and the Dutch Air Force in 1928.: Almost 14,000 Dutch KNIL M.11 Lugers were in Indonesia before the.
As such, the Luger was widely used during the. General is known to have personally carried an M.11.: Captured Lugers issued to RNZAF ADS officers 1942-45.: In use from 1945 and phased out in 1987.: Used by Chang Tso-lin's warlord army.: The Swiss Army was the first to adopt the Luger.
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Ordnance Board purchased 1,000 Model 1900 7.65mm pistols under an official military contract order and issued them to active duty cavalry troops for field testing. Non-state entities. See also. References Citations.