Battle Harden Luger G date
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hansinluck
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Nice! Looks great.
bonemorrow98
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Mistake stamp on the Mag ?
hansinluck
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The 5690 on the pistol and the mag is 5680?
It's certainly a close number to have, but it just tells me it's not the original mag distributed with the pistol.
Actually the DE63 started appearing in the early d block of 1935. Let me say I don’t claim to know when the first one appeared but they (DE63) were standard well before the 4000 range of the d block.
The blued body “type 2” magazine is from an end of 1936 n block Luger. It is at least 18 months after the pistol was made. We can really see the suffix block on the Luger but I’m guessing it’s a c-e most likely. IMHO most Lugers (really every one of them) that show a lot of bore wear from firing got that way from being a training school firearm that was fired by recruits regularly for years and or were fired a lot after the war when ammo was dirt cheap and usually corrosive steel jacket surplus. I believe it would be amazing if anyone fired a pistol dozens of times in close combat and survived or maybe in some exceptional cases over a period of years hundreds of rounds, which is hardly enough to break a bore in. Thousands of rounds would have never been fired out of any combat carried handgun at least in combat.
Toddpatt 1995
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Would you be willing to sell the mag? I have the 5680 Luger everything matches but the mag
