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World War I Pistols
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Cool, I see the venerable Nagant made the list. I remember when those Luger pistols were still relatively cheap as per today's standards, but I was under the impression (or so I was told) their reliability wasn't that good.
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04-27-2020, 01:23 PM | #4 |
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While I never owned one, I shot a few different Lugers. Every. Single. One. I shot was a jam-o-matic. Which is why I never owned one. Kind of wish now that I'd picked one up on the cheap, just for a conversation piece.
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The ones I knew of worked very well but they were very picky on ammo. The moment you got away from military ball ammo there were feeding & ejection issues. Also tight tolerances, didn't like dirt/grit/sand/dust much. A work of machining art though.
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I used +P 9mmx19 ammo in my Lugers and they gobbled it up and spit out the empties.
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Austro-Hungarian pistols have a very interesting look.
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Some years ago there were Mauser Broomhandles on the market. Some were even re barrelled in 9x19mm. Wish I had nailed one.
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I have a few that are outright funky looking to put it mildly.
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Another interesting pistol during WWI was the Bergmann–Bayard. I had the chance to buy one once at a very reasonable price. But I didn't know much about them and I passed it up. It's hard to find ammo for them.
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05-17-2020, 09:31 PM | #14 |
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Bob Faris was a friend of mine. Big MG and Enfield guy. He had a schnellfeur and we'd shoot that gun. Bob was very experienced and the fewest shots with trigger manipulation he could get was two rds. I managed three rds one day and thought I was the cats meow. That thing would empty a 10 rd mag in less than a second, scary fast.
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