It is not what we now call +P so do NOT use +P and think it is what the Germans were using in the P08. The European 9 mm war ammo was hotter than our Western modern ammo. I have a couple WWII Era P08 Lugers and both are great dependable shooters with original parts. I passed on it because the flat topped grips and the hard-to-mash grip safety wiped out the sexy Luger feel in the hand. It looked very nice and the price was not too bad. I looked hard at a P06/73 with German lobed grip strap and 6' barrel. but the striker spring is easy to get at. The recoil spring is not easy to change and will not affect felt recoil much if any. Give flip flopping springs a lot of thought. It is probably the P29/70 model, not a P08. I did not then know enough to analyze, but now think it was the typical RP short OAL as much as anything.īret: Your Interarms/Mauser Parabellum has the straight Swiss style frontstrap. When that supply dried up, Remington was all I could find and it was poor. It was fully reliable with the Canadian WWII surplus meant for STEN and Inglis.

My IDPA Subsonic 145 gr at maybe 900 fps with long OAL shoots great with reliable feeding and ejection. He was frustrated in shooting it, neither US nor Euro ball ammo was fully reliable. But it sold to the German Navy in 1904 and the German Army in 1908.Ī friend has one of those 1923 Finnish Lugers with Tikka 9mm replacement barrel. Tested by the US Army in 1903 there were two loads, one at 1033 fps, one at 1095 fps out of the 3.9' barrel power factor 128-135. When DWM enlarged it to 9mm, the original ammo had a 124 (8 gram) bullet. The action was designed for the 7.65 with a 93 gr bullet at 1250 fps, power factor 116. Be careful about that 'hot load' for Lugers business.

How old is my luger po8